unicate wrote:
wrote:

Well while not in NC, if you are ever out in Central California.
Palo Alto Airport (KPAO) you can walk right out to the taxi way (next
to the runway) where there is a nice bench to sit.

I frequently spend afternoons there taking in the sights and tune my
reciever to the tower. It is almost an unwriiten rule that as the
planes (ok, technically the pilots/passengers )taxi back from
landing they wave at you.

Educational, free entertainment.


I doubt that bench at Palo Alto is actually intended for regular public
"free entertainment" ... it is a place where CFIs sit, listen and watch
their primary students doing first "supervised" solos.

I don't know about the bench at Palo Alto, but the gazebo at San Carlos
Airport (KSQL) in front of the tower is big enough to hold a small party
in. I often see people with their kids out there waving as I taxi by.

Of course, you've got to get through the security gate first, but that's
not too hard. I think you just have to call up the tower to get the code.

-- Bryan