Sun N Fun Pix -- Better Late than Never!

Mike Weller wrote:

Sorry that UNICOM didn't give you a call back. They are very good
about that. Really.

Perhaps Jay mistakenly dialed in an incorrect/out of date frequency or
transmitted on COM1 instead of COM2? There are other explanations why
one may not receive a response on a UNICOM frequency, especially when
one is a transient.



--
Peter

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:gVXlc.33415$0H1.2770559@attbi_s54...
http://alexisparkinn.com/sun_n_fun_04.htm

I *finally* got a few minutes to post these.

'Sup Jay.

You landed in Huntsville for lunch and didn't call me. It's only about an
hour away. Remind me to smack you next time I see you.

--
Jim Fisher



Hell, it's *zero* away from me!

I'm mortally insulted.

Stan
(low-winger)

That was the Med-Flight hangar you trashed!!! You didn't see the big
"H" and all of that? They didn't think it was cute at all. You're
lucky you've still got both/any testicles.

I don't think we blasted a Med-Flight hangar. The guy on my wing said it
was the "maintenance hangar" -- and I don't recall any big "H" our front.
But I suppose that would explain why there were there on a Saturday
afternoon.

First of all, our new airport has some of the best markings anywhere.
There is a yellow line and taxiway signs that are new and easily seen.
How in the world did you get over to the maintenance hangar if you
could see our new terminal building (the one in your pictures)?

Yeah, it's kind of funny, but we absolutely could NOT believe that the big,
brand new building was the "real" FBO for little folks like us! At every
other airport of Huntsville's size that we've visited, the big, beautiful,
new building out front is always the terminal for commuter airline
service -- NOT the FBO for Spam Cans.

In the absence of any answers to our inquiries on Unicom, we pulled in front
of what LOOKED like the FBO, trying to find the gas pumps -- which was the
older brick building with the sign out front. (I'll bet that used to be the
FBO, right? It looks like every other FBO in the country.)

When the lady inside the "real" FBO finally answered, we taxied over to the
gorgeous new building -- which is VERY impressive, I must say. At some
point along the way we must've blasted the poor guy inside the open
maintenance hangar -- although, as I said, neither of us thought we were
close enough to have done such a thing.

Still, after over three hours in the air, "road head" can make you goofy.
I apologized profusely, and we moved on.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yeah, jumping on your wing without asking isn't good, but still; you
decide to kick his ass, and he might kick yours, or he might press
charges. Either outcome seems pretty bad.

Yeah, you're right, of course. Still, I just can't imagine EVER jumping on
someone's wing without permission.

The bottom line is that HE was taking a big risk jumping on my wing. If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

Luckily, it all ended well.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Yeah, jumping on your wing without asking isn't good, but still; you
decide to kick his ass, and he might kick yours, or he might press
charges. Either outcome seems pretty bad.

Yeah, you're right, of course. Still, I just can't imagine EVER jumping on
someone's wing without permission.

Makes sense.

The bottom line is that HE was taking a big risk jumping on my wing. If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

Yep, the exact same argument applies to him, too. *He* shouldn't have
done what he did either.

Luckily, it all ended well.

Best all around. As with most things, it takes multiple mistakes /
failures to achieve seriously bad results.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com http://www.dd-b.net/carry/
Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/

Jay Honeck wrote:
The bottom line is that HE was taking a big risk jumping on my wing. If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

I hate to interrupt your chest pounding, but you don't exactly look big
enough to be "tossing" any body any where.



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Jay and Teresa Masino ___(_)___
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I hate to interrupt your chest pounding, but you don't exactly look big
enough to be "tossing" any body any where.

Heh. That's what the last guy thought.

Adrenaline is a wondrous thing.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article kqLmc.45236$Ik.3117783@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck
wrote:

I hate to interrupt your chest pounding, but you don't exactly look big
enough to be "tossing" any body any where.

Heh. That's what the last guy thought.
Adrenaline is a wondrous thing.

Kinda like that Richard Prior saying, "Fire is a great motivator...
cause when you're on fire, you're motivated to put it out!"

Jay Honeck wrote:

If I
had been of a different frame of mind, or maybe slightly less tired, I might
have just tossed his little ass into the prop, rather than nicely
apologizing.

I think you'd better go back to the "lucky I apologized" line. Probably some part of
your brain was evaluating the consequences of a well-aimed kick to the nose and just
how easy it would be to deliver such a kick to a belligerent inn-keeper as he's
trying to get out the door of a Piper. Betcha the guy on the outside of that door had
already worked that out, too.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

In article , G.R. Patterson III
wrote:

I think you'd better go back to the "lucky I apologized" line. Probably
some part of your brain was evaluating the consequences of a well-aimed
kick to the nose and just how easy it would be to deliver such a kick
to a belligerent inn-keeper as he's trying to get out the door of a
Piper. Betcha the guy on the outside of that door had already worked
that out, too.

Yet another reason to own a high-wing!