Calls on the radio

On 30 Jul 2006 16:07:51 GMT, (Blanche Cohen)
wrote:

I was up at Leadville (LXV) a couple week ago and kept hearing calls that
were somewhat unintelligible, but the FBO staff & I were convinced
they were calling Craig and not Leadville. And we kept hearing these
calls. Still convinced they were calling Craig. Both airports have the same
UNICOM frequency and but are about 100 nm apart. About 15 min. later
a twin lands. They were calling "Lake County Airport". Now, that's the
"official" name but I've never heard anyone use it and neither did
anyone at the FBO! It's always "Leadville".

You can spot a flatlander 10nm vis away, I guess.

What has that to do with it? We have people do the same out here.
We had one guy ask over the air about gas availability at Gladwin one
evening. They were already closed. He was told Bay City, Saginaw, and
Clare (Clare Municipal) all had gas with Clare having self serve so
even if no one was there he could get gas. It was pointed out that
the airport at Harrison (clare County-there is only one airport at
Harrison) did not have gas of any kind day or night.

Where did he go? Yup. Clare county at Harrison. Couldn't find gas so
took off, engine quite just off the end of the runway. It was a fatal.
OTOH he'd let the gas get so low it's doubtful he'd have made Clare
Municipal any way. On top of that he was only about 40 miles from
home so why was he flying with so little gas?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com