Pirep needed: Boston Airports

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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S Green wrote:

Not everyone knows where "Boston or Mansfield" is... this is a world
wide
posting...

If you're that ignorant of the area, then you should simply ignore the
thread. The
original poster was asking for information, and he certainly can't expect
that from
you, so why expect him to add a bunch of unnecessary data in order to
allow you to
participate?

Totally agree

discussing Boston, no one has mentioned the
real
risk of that city. It's driving. In Boston, it's a blood sport.

I lived there for over 10 years and the driving "skills" I acquired have
been of immeasureable use to me in other cities. NY cab drivers? No
problem! Tame!

So, how do you think my beat up car got that way?

Ya can't beat it, a fairly good education at a smallish college in Cambridge,
driver's ed (postgraduate level) in Boston. . .

The hardest thing was taking flying lessons with a Boston residing CFI. "You're
supposed to yell 'clear' to warn people," he said, "but man, if you drove out
here from Boston, I don't know how could could."

And then there was the Division of Motor Vehicles.

In article ,
emoove (tony) wrote:

And then there was the Division of Motor Vehicles.

Registry of Motor Vehicles...

--
Bob Noel

Boston, the guy with the beat up car always has the right of way.

Having New Hampshire plates is a big help. The drivers worry that you
don't know the rules, especially if you don't look at them.

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In article ,
wrote:

Boston, the guy with the beat up car always has the right of way.

Having New Hampshire plates is a big help. The drivers worry that you
don't know the rules, especially if you don't look at them.

you are making the error of thinking that the Boston driver
actually notices the NH plates.

--
Bob Noel

Boston, the guy with the beat up car always has the right of way.

Having New Hampshire plates is a big help. The drivers worry that you
don't know the rules, especially if you don't look at them.

you are making the error of thinking that the Boston driver
actually notices the NH plates.

Don't you know that you have to be almost a carlength behind someone to be able
to actually see their plates? The half life, in traffic, no matter what the
speed, of a carlength gap is pretty small. You know about precision flying --
in traffic in Boston, it's 'The Thundercars". You may not brief with them, you
may not know their name, but man, 9 out of 10 can pull into a carlength slot
with as much percision as the guy flyuing the number 4 jet.

Read the state ID on the plate? Next to the bunper sticker that says "I got
schrod in Boston"* is the one that says "If you can read this, you're not close
enough".

* yeah, I know it really was on Legal Seafood's tee shirts, and schrod is the
past pluperfect of screw, but Boston is in the home state of Ted Kennedy, so
there's a tradition of taking certain liberties. Now I have to hope most
pilots, even those who live in Massachusetts, are Republicans.

Bob Noel wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

Boston, the guy with the beat up car always has the right of way.

Having New Hampshire plates is a big help. The drivers worry that you
don't know the rules, especially if you don't look at them.

you are making the error of thinking that the Boston driver
actually notices the NH plates.

No, he's making the mistake that there are rules.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

Bob Noel wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

Boston, the guy with the beat up car always has the right of way.

Having New Hampshire plates is a big help. The drivers worry that you
don't know the rules, especially if you don't look at them.

you are making the error of thinking that the Boston driver
actually notices the NH plates.

The guy with the NH plates probably IS a Boston driver.

Why bother to register in Mass? High insurance, high fees, high annual
vehicle property taxes.

"tony" wrote in message
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There are actully a few intesections
that meet at 90 degrees, but, keeping in mind the streets followed the
origional cow paths, and the cows had a bad sense of direction, driving
and
right of way is an adventure.

That's one of the reasons I could never live in the US. Most of
the roads are just too boring (straight) for a driving enthusiast.

Paul (UK, where most roads apart from motorways and the
occasional Roman Road follow the farmer's path!)

"tony" wrote in message
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Now I have to hope most
pilots, even those who live in Massachusetts, are Republicans.


Mass is pretty Democrat leaning IIRC.

What are you, one of those "single issue" voters? The party is more
important than anything else?