Forget Batavia for Sporty's.
Small selection of what they offer - although they could get you anything
you wanted at the counter. No restaurant of any kind on the field. In fact,
even the vending machines were below par.

I was expecting to spend several hours there. Instead, I paid for fuel,
spent 10 minutes looking at everything they had on display, had lunch of a
bag of chips and a Pepsi, and got out of there as quickly as I could.

Agree 100%. If there has been one truly disappointing flight in my log
book, it was our trip to Sporty's in Batavia, OH. Their facility is so
gorgeous and promising, and their catalog is so well-done, that I
really expected Sporty's to be a great place to visit.

It wasn't, for reasons that still escape me. They've got the facility
and traffic for a truly good store and restaurant, but have instead
chosen to install a bunch of really bad vending machines, and a tiny
show-room.

For a company that trumpets its support for GA in every magazine to
offer such a lame fly-in-shopping experience is truly ironic, IMHO.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"