Have you ever flown to an airshow and yet couldn't land at the field
because it was closed?

Ricky


Yup. We were well before the announced closing time - but they ran out
of parking! (or so they said). OTOH we were directed to another
airport not far away, and they provided
a shuttle bus. So it was a minor inconvenience - and I didn't miss a
thing. This was at Chino, CA quite a few years ago.

On another occasion the airport wasn't closed - but there was a
definite communications problem. I started listening on the temporary
tower frequency about 30 miles away - and
heard a mess. There was all sorts of whining about not getting answers
from the tower. Oh S##t I thought - here we go again (been there, done
that before). But I continued on in -
to find, when I got there "nothing". I saw one plane landing and
otherwise a clear sky. I called the tower, got my clearance, and
landed - no drama at all. What I knew (and the others
did not) was that these folks seem to use a wet noodle for an antenna.
I had to manually break the squelch to hear them. Dunno if the howling
mob got it sorted out and landed -
or decided to go away - before my arrival.

Dave