Flying near Boston

In article , Owen wrote:

Fun places to go and see, KACK, KMVY, KLEB is going to be beautiful in
about 3 wks. KSAN has a great restaurant on the field. Land long on 32
or you'll taxi on the runway for about 4000' to make the next turnoff.

Agreed on the locals, but KSAN is a really long cross country.

KSFM is probably a little easier to get to...

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

what.. no more Ice Cream runs to Jaffrey?
BT

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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On 9 Sep 2006 07:12:59 -0700, wrote:

I'd love to hear from people who fly in the area and have advice on fun
flights to do locally - either sightseeing or $100 burger style.

In no particular order:

1.) Visit PVC (Provincetown) & take the $1 bus or expensive cab to
Clem & Ursie's on Shank Painter Rd. & downtown. The airport is
located within the Cape Cod National Seashore National Park. Excellent
whale watching leaves from the P-Town pier.

2.) There's a very good to excellent pilot shop across the street from
Norwood.

3.) EEN (Keene) has an interesting Indian restaurant.

4.) BID (Block ISland) has Bethany's Diner, and of course Block
Island.

5.) The Simsbury Fly-in (4B9) is two weeks away.

6.) Goodspeed (42B) has a real opera house with professional theatre
and downtown restaurants a short walk away, along with an interesting
location on the CT river.

7.) You can land on grass and go to the beach @ Katama (1B2)

8.) Next year's AOPA Expo is @ HFD in Hartford.

9.) There's an air museam @ Bradley Int'l

10.) Providence (PVD) has a Hooter's across the street. G

If you fly over Westover (CEF), watch for C5's doing pattern work, as
it is one amazing sight to see from above.


Have fun!

On 9 Sep 2006 07:12:59 -0700, wrote:

I'd love to hear from people who fly in the area and have advice on fun
flights to do locally - either sightseeing or $100 burger style.

Follow the advice of Stuart Little: "It's never a mistake to go
north."

Hampton Airport is a great grass field south of Portsmouth with a
cafe.

Lake Winnipesaukee.

Wiscassett, Maine.

Though I've never flown in the Knox County Regional with a great
aviation-auto museum on campus.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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I'm based at KBED and I don't recommend it as Massport is
NOT friendly to small aircraft. Massport turned the whole
stupid airport into a SIDA (Security id area). Everyone has
to be badged (at your expense) or escorted by a badged person.
Plus the ridiculous wasteful "security" requirements on the aircraft.
And the rentals at KBED have to be more expensive than at KLWM
or KOWD.

Just curious, why do you stay there?

In article M_hNg.2447$rc3.1937@trndny03,
"Steve Foley" wrote:

I'm based at KBED and I don't recommend it as Massport is
NOT friendly to small aircraft. Massport turned the whole
stupid airport into a SIDA (Security id area). Everyone has
to be badged (at your expense) or escorted by a badged person.
Plus the ridiculous wasteful "security" requirements on the aircraft.
And the rentals at KBED have to be more expensive than at KLWM
or KOWD.

Just curious, why do you stay there?

I live six miles from KBED. It's a short easy ride to KBED. It's 30+ minutes
to get to Norwood or LWM, etc. I also work on the base, which clearly
puts me even closer to the airplane.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Don't forget Stow (6B6)! Great resturant on field, decent rentals as
well.

Bush

On 9 Sep 2006 07:12:59 -0700, wrote:

Hi folks.

I've recently moved to the Boston area after getting my Private
certificate down in New Jersey. I'm probably going to fly out of
Hanscom (I've flown in there before and know it's busy).

I'd love to hear from people who fly in the area and have advice on fun
flights to do locally - either sightseeing or $100 burger style.

Thanks

Tom

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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I live six miles from KBED. It's a short easy ride to KBED. It's 30+
minutes
to get to Norwood or LWM, etc. I also work on the base, which clearly
puts me even closer to the airplane.

There's certainly something to be said for living close to your plane. I
moved 15 miles away from mine and watched my usage drop 50%.

There's an airport closer, but they have no services, and the land is for
sale.

There's an airport closer, but they have no services, and the land is for
sale.

Buy it, and start offering services.

Jose
--
There are more ways to skin a cat than there are cats.
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Thanks for all the help guys, this is great stuff.
Any additional details on the Boston sightseeing loop would also be
appreciated!

Tom


Jose wrote:
There's an airport closer, but they have no services, and the land is for
sale.

Buy it, and start offering services.

Jose
--
There are more ways to skin a cat than there are cats.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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There's an airport closer, but they have no services, and the land is for
sale.

Oh? Which airport is that?