What's your next...?

On Mar 5, 6:36 pm, "Jim Burns" wrote:
...flying destination?

Probably Cedar Key in Florida

...reason for flying?

Paying off my Dad's Christmas present of a $100 hamburger.

...rating you'll work on?

I'd like to start on my IR, but money is always an issue...

...flying related goal?

Get in 50 hours this year. I'm off to a really slow start and I doubt
it will happen.


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We're in the best part of our flying weather during the winter (cold
dry air makes a happy airplane!) It's been mid-50s and mostly dry and
clear. Soon the tempuratures will rise, and the winds will pick up and
then comes the thunder storms.

John

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We're in the best part of our flying weather during the winter (cold
dry air makes a happy airplane!) It's been mid-50s and mostly dry and
clear...

Winter? mid-50's? *sigh* it's 12 degrees here. How I'd love to be able
to say that it's mid-winter with temps in the mid 50's.

Jim

...flying destination?

Spring break is coming up quickly, and we'll be flying to
Fredericksburg, Texas to check out the only other aviation-themed
hotel (that I know of), the Hangar Hotel. I hear they've done some
remarkable things there, and Mary and I want to see how they do it.

Unless, of course, the usual springtime line of persistent T-storms is
draped between here and there. Then, we'll go....wherever the weather
looks best!

...rating you'll work on?

Instrument....someday, I'll finish that up.

...flying related goal?

To fly to California, and up the West Coast. We've done it in a car,
did it on a motorcycle....GOTTA do it in the plane.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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To fly to California, and up the West Coast. We've done it in a car,
did it on a motorcycle....GOTTA do it in the plane.
--
Jay Honeck

Now THAT sounds fun! If Tami and I can ever get two consecutive weeks off
during the summer that would be a great trip!

Jim

Instrument....someday, I'll finish that up.

About six months after Mary does.

Jose
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Jay--

You'll love Fredericksburg and the Hangar Hotel. The food at the cafe
adjacent to the hotel is good, and one sits right on the flight line.
It is a popular place on the weekends.

The town of Fredericksburg is well worth visiting. It is an old Texas
German community with good restaurants and such interesting things as
the Nimitz Museum of the Pacific, which is not to be missed.

Hope you get down here to enjoy our weather and hospitality.

If I know when you're going to be here, I'll find some sort of lame
excuse (like I need one!) to zip over there and say howdy.


Michael
Grumman 46U

On 6 Mar 2007 07:17:14 -0800, "Jay Honeck" wrote:



Spring break is coming up quickly, and we'll be flying to
Fredericksburg, Texas to check out the only other aviation-themed
hotel (that I know of), the Hangar Hotel. I hear they've done some
remarkable things there, and Mary and I want to see how they do it.

If I know when you're going to be here, I'll find some sort of lame
excuse (like I need one!) to zip over there and say howdy.

Thanks, Michael! We'll try to take you up on that.

The plan (at this distant point) is to depart for Texas next Sunday.
Unfortunately we work till noon, so the odds are we won't be off the
ground till nearly 1 PM. Since we'll need to make one fuel stop (it
flight plans at 5:42 hours, assuming 135 knots), I suspect we'll only
make it to Oklahoma City or the Dallas area before stopping for the
night.

Or, we could get an early jump, have a great tail-wind, take advantage
of the extra hour of daylight (thank you, Congress!), and get there by
sundown. Dunno yet, and we won't know until we do it. Either way, we
SHOULD be in Fredericksburg by Monday, late morning.

Now, of course, being March, we could be sitting here under a 3-day
ice storm by Sunday. Or, Texas could be getting his with persistent T-
storms. In which case, we'll head...East. Or West. We don't really
care -- we just want to fly!

Really, once I'm in the cockpit, I'm already where I want to be...

:-)

I count no less than 7 airports around Fredericksburg. Is T82 the
best for us to use?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Or, we could get an early jump, have a great tail-wind, take advantage of
the extra hour of daylight (thank you, Congress!), and get there by
sundown.


Are you guys going to get night current - just in case weather is perfect
ahead, but the sun is setting?


Mont-inky-blackness

Are you guys going to get night current - just in case weather is perfect
ahead, but the sun is setting?

We should, but our time-table between today and departure Sunday
doesn't appear to allow for it.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay--

Yep. T82 is Gillespie County, home of the Hangar Hotel and the
"poodle-skirt" style diner. Single runway (5000', 32/14 if I remember
correctly) is in good shape. Field altitude is something like 1700',
so you're in the Hill Country for sure. I haven't parked there
overnight, but my guess is that there is no charge if you're at the
hotel.

You know, of course, that when you're there, you're only a 20-minute
hop to San Antonio, which, if you haven't been there, is a trip well
worth making. I don't know if they're doing tours at Mooney, but if
they are, you're only 10 minutes or so from Kerrville.

You're also correct about the weather. Naturally, it has been
Chamber-of-Commerce perfect this week, with clear skies, wafting
winds, and highs in the 70s. My guess is that you may be in luck on
this end. Having lived in Milwaukee for 7+ years, I fully appreciate
the temptresses controlling the upper Midwest weather at this time of
year. For about a month up there, we always swore that we could see
spring, only to be disappointed with a snow storm or horrendous ice.


Michael
Grumman 46U

On 7 Mar 2007 06:35:05 -0800, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

...

:-)

I count no less than 7 airports around Fredericksburg. Is T82 the
best for us to use?