On Oct 2, 9:44*am, Ricky wrote:

Several years ago I had been saving all my nickles and dimes for
months in order to rent a C-172 and fly, instead of drive, to the CAF
Airsho out in Midland, TX

I failed to mention that the rental bill, for which I had been saving
agressively, was well north of $300.00

Ugh.

Ya know, the two times I've flown to Midland (and once when CAF was
down in Harlingen) I did not wait in a long line for departure. Once I
hung around quite a while post-show looking at stuff, but the other
two I was in a short departure line that went very quickly.
This may be that the CAF Airsho is not attended by a lot of fly-in
aircraft.

Ricky