Ideas for long flight to midwest

Forget Batavia for Sporty's. Unless you are going to specifically pick
something up, thumbing through their catalog or paging through their online
catalog is much, much more interesting.

Don't get me wronge - beautiful airport. Beautiful Sporty's building. But
what's inside was a waste of time for me.

Small selection of what they offer - although they could get you anything
you wanted at the counter. No restaurant of any kind on the field. In fact,
even the vending machines were below par.

I was expecting to spend several hours there. Instead, I paid for fuel,
spent 10 minutes looking at everything they had on display, had lunch of a
bag of chips and a Pepsi, and got out of there as quickly as I could.

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Travis
Lake N3094P
PWK
"Robet Coffey" wrote in message
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I thought Sporty's was neat for a short visit in Ohio. If you make it that
far east might as well drop by Downtown Island KDKX in Knoxville, Tn or the
warbird museum in Gatlinburg Tn.
Wings wrote:
We have a Cherokee 140 and have flown to OSH twice.

So this year we decided we would try instead to fly from California to
North Carolina (FFA)!

But scheduling problems cut two days out of our schedule, making the east
coast a bit too much of a stretch.

So we're planning on leaving Friday from CMA, going east to Amarillo on
the first day. After that... some combination of where the weather is
better and what is interesting. We're thinking we'll go east of the
Mississippi, perhaps Ohio, Kentucky, etc. So my question for you
midwesterners is: where is interesting to visit? Any great airports? Any
good museums? Anything noteworthy? We're pretty flexible on where we can
go, so give us some suggestions and I'll post a trip report in a week and
a half or so!

Tim Long
PA28-140
Camarillo, CA

Forget Batavia for Sporty's.
Small selection of what they offer - although they could get you anything
you wanted at the counter. No restaurant of any kind on the field. In fact,
even the vending machines were below par.

I was expecting to spend several hours there. Instead, I paid for fuel,
spent 10 minutes looking at everything they had on display, had lunch of a
bag of chips and a Pepsi, and got out of there as quickly as I could.

Agree 100%. If there has been one truly disappointing flight in my log
book, it was our trip to Sporty's in Batavia, OH. Their facility is so
gorgeous and promising, and their catalog is so well-done, that I
really expected Sporty's to be a great place to visit.

It wasn't, for reasons that still escape me. They've got the facility
and traffic for a truly good store and restaurant, but have instead
chosen to install a bunch of really bad vending machines, and a tiny
show-room.

For a company that trumpets its support for GA in every magazine to
offer such a lame fly-in-shopping experience is truly ironic, IMHO.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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"Jay Honeck" wrote:


It wasn't, for reasons that still escape me. They've got the facility
and traffic for a truly good store and restaurant, but have instead
chosen to install a bunch of really bad vending machines, and a tiny
show-room.

You are in the hotel business, not the restaurant business (yet?).
Restaurants have the highest failure rate of any business.
Hal is a shrewed business man and will not put his money where it will
not deliver a sufficent, steady return.

For a company that trumpets its support for GA in every magazine to
offer such a lame fly-in-shopping experience is truly ironic, IMHO.

What's lame about it?
He has better stock than anyone else out there.
You can tryout anything you want to buy before purchasing it. (Well,
there are a few things I can think of that you cannot, maybe not the
everything, but most of them.)

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"Travis Marlatte" wrote:

I was expecting to spend several hours there. Instead, I paid for fuel,
spent 10 minutes looking at everything they had on display, had lunch of a
bag of chips and a Pepsi, and got out of there as quickly as I could.

And the fuel is not cheap, either!

Addison Airport Addison TX has a nice museum, easy to get in, hard to
get out. Just waiting for all the traffic. This is north downtown Dallas.

On lake Texoma, north of Dallas is 3T0. Grass airfield, cabins on the
airport to rent, or you can camp. http://www.cedarmills.com/airfield.htm

Fayetteville, AR Drake Field (KFYV) has a museum on the field. Small,
but interesting.

If you come east from Amarillo, stop by at KSWI. We try to have the
lowest 100LL available. Also, Palo Duro Canyon south of Amarillo is a
nice visit, as is the western museum in Canyon, TX south of Amarillo.

Ross
KSWI

Wings wrote:

We have a Cherokee 140 and have flown to OSH twice.

So this year we decided we would try instead to fly from California to
North Carolina (FFA)!

But scheduling problems cut two days out of our schedule, making the east
coast a bit too much of a stretch.

So we're planning on leaving Friday from CMA, going east to Amarillo on the
first day. After that... some combination of where the weather is better
and what is interesting. We're thinking we'll go east of the Mississippi,
perhaps Ohio, Kentucky, etc.

So my question for you midwesterners is: where is interesting to visit? Any
great airports? Any good museums? Anything noteworthy? We're pretty
flexible on where we can go, so give us some suggestions and I'll post a
trip report in a week and a half or so!

Tim Long
PA28-140
Camarillo, CA

In article ,
Ross Richardson wrote:

easy to get in, hard to get out

To quote a line from the television series "MASH":
"That sounds like marriage to me." - Hawkeye Pierce