How I celebrated the Anniversary

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

Fisher's Island is on Long Island???

News to me...

Not that it's not a nice place to land...

In article , jon
wrote:

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

Believe it or not..

A good pilot friend of mine reminded me of this fact when I was making up
the list. And it is also part of Suffolk county.


"Tom Fleischman" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Fisher's Island is on Long Island???

News to me...

Not that it's not a nice place to land...

In article , jon
wrote:

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned
to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking
very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New
York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the
aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

In article , jon
wrote:

Believe it or not..

A good pilot friend of mine reminded me of this fact when I was making up
the list. And it is also part of Suffolk county.


"Tom Fleischman" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Fisher's Island is on Long Island???

News to me...

Not that it's not a nice place to land...



Well, it may be in New York State, and it may be a part of Suffolk
County, but it is definately NOT on Long Island!

A lovely destination though, and I'll bet that was a GREAT flight -

jon ) wrote:

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in
New York in a round robin flight.
snip

Excellent tribute! What were you flying? A Tiger, as your email indicates?

VFR or IFR in to La Guardia and Kennedy? Touch and Go or Full stop?

I was curious how these busy airports deal with GA.



--
Peter












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Lucky you. I have freezing rain here in Montreal, Qc. There goes my plan.

TD

"jon" wrote in message ...
I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New
York in
a round robin flight.

It's been a great anniversary! First, we were on the front page of one of
the local newspapers, interviewed for the "100th Anniversary of Flight"
story! See it at http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/577739.html .

Then, inspired by Jon's grand adventure (and the un-forecasted,
crystal-clear weather) Mary and I set out to hit TWELVE airports before the
kids got out of school today.

Well, we really only hit 11 separate airports, but since we split the PIC
duties at Dubuque, she and I both got to count Iowa City and Dubuque -- so
it actually worked out to 13. (I should work for the Congressional
Accounting Office, no? :-)

They we

Iowa City (KIOW)
Tipton (8C4)
Davenport (DVN)
Clinton (CWI)
Maquoketa (OQW)
Dubuque (DBQ) Where we had GREAT barbecued pork sandwiches at the on-field
restaurant for lunch!
Monticello (MXO)
Manchester (C27)
Independence (IIB)
Vinton (VTI)
Cedar Rapids (CID)
Iowa City

It was a wonderful way to celebrate, and we made sure to wish all the
various controllers along our route of flight a "Happy Anniversary!"
Without exception, they all responded pleasantly, and soon everyone on the
freq was doing it! :-)

Happy 100th, everyone!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

For those familiar with Geocaching ( www.geocaching.com ) , I released a
"Centennial of Flight" Travel Bug today, a 1/100th scale diecast model of
the Wright Flyer, from the Centennial State. It's goal is to land at all 50
states, especially Kitty Hawk, NC.

For the unfamiliar, a geocache is usually a container of some sort, hidden,
but the lat/long coordinates and/or clues are given on how to find it.
Travel Bugs are things you put in the caches with specific goals in mind -
they travel from cache to cache. Some have gone around the world,
repeatedly. The bug itself is a dog tag. You attach it to an item, in this
case a small airplane.

I planned on going flying, and still could. The weather is clear, the winds
are fierce, but I'm a little under the weather myself, as are the kids.

Happy Centennial, Chris

Congats to you both. Today's weather in New York was a real wash out so I am
glad I went yesterday. I was trying to make it 12 airports but was
officially denied permission to land at Calverton the old Grumman navel
field on long island. It is now a town owned private airport and only allow
air traffic if it is for business purposes unfortunately I told the real
reason for the landing and it was denied. What can you do..


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:1G3Eb.572453$HS4.4306717@attbi_s01...
Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New
York in
a round robin flight.

It's been a great anniversary! First, we were on the front page of one of
the local newspapers, interviewed for the "100th Anniversary of Flight"
story! See it at http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/577739.html .

Then, inspired by Jon's grand adventure (and the un-forecasted,
crystal-clear weather) Mary and I set out to hit TWELVE airports before
the
kids got out of school today.

Well, we really only hit 11 separate airports, but since we split the PIC
duties at Dubuque, she and I both got to count Iowa City and Dubuque -- so
it actually worked out to 13. (I should work for the Congressional
Accounting Office, no? :-)

They we

Iowa City (KIOW)
Tipton (8C4)
Davenport (DVN)
Clinton (CWI)
Maquoketa (OQW)
Dubuque (DBQ) Where we had GREAT barbecued pork sandwiches at the
on-field
restaurant for lunch!
Monticello (MXO)
Manchester (C27)
Independence (IIB)
Vinton (VTI)
Cedar Rapids (CID)
Iowa City

It was a wonderful way to celebrate, and we made sure to wish all the
various controllers along our route of flight a "Happy Anniversary!"
Without exception, they all responded pleasantly, and soon everyone on the
freq was doing it! :-)

Happy 100th, everyone!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Thanks Peter it was very cool to go into those 2 airports.

Vfr to both..
At Kennedy I originally asked to land taxi back and depart I figured they
would bill me for the landing fee $25.
But they needed me to land and go to the GA terminal and pay there. It
actually added to the experience.

Departed JFK rwy 31 left climbed to 1400' slight right turn direct to the
numbers of lga rwy 31. Landing fee $114
If you can communicate on the radio and follow their directions you would
have no problem.

Jon

"Peter R." wrote in message
...
jon ) wrote:

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in
New York in a round robin flight.
snip

Excellent tribute! What were you flying? A Tiger, as your email
indicates?

VFR or IFR in to La Guardia and Kennedy? Touch and Go or Full stop?

I was curious how these busy airports deal with GA.



--
Peter












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