Spooky flights

Jay Beckman wrote:
"Roger" wrote in message
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Yup. We're in the process of building a picnic area..er...Have to
call it a "viewing area" or parks and recreation gets involved.

Make sure they stick an industrial-grade speaker out there and relay
the CTAF. A really big hit in places where I've seen/heard it done.

I've, uh, "viewed" several lunches and dinners at the shelter area at
the local GA airport. I could tell basically what was going on by
watching, but it made more sense when I remembered to bring my scanner
with me. (It's a fairly busy, towered field though.)

I have pondered a few designs for a viewing area radio. You can always
hide the radio and the speaker way up in the rafters of the shelter,
which might protect them from vandalism. You can get fiberglass
electrical enclosures and if the signals are strong enough, you might
get away with an antenna entirely inside the enclosure. That way you've
only got two holes in the enclosu juice coming in and speaker wires
going out. Depending on the location, you might want to have a timer
that shuts off the radio in the wee hours, if somebody might object.

For a busier field, I've thought of something like an old crystal-
controlled scanner in a Pelican case with a clear lid, plus external
speaker. Many of these scanners had an LED for each channel, and it
would be easy to make up a little placard for the LEDs showing which
channel is which, like "Tower", "Ground", etc. You could do the same
thing with a later-model scanner with a numeric LED or LCD, but then
(for most scanners) you'd need to provide a list of frequencies on
a placard and expect people to match up 123.45 on the scanner display
with 123.45 on the list. Either way, you have to put the radio down
lower so people can see it, and it might be more prone to damage.

Some people like to watch trains instead of airplanes and there are
apparently a couple of busy rail lines in Rochelle, Illinois. The city
built a shelter that has a scanner so people can listen to the trains;
you might talk to them to see what works and doesn't work.

Matt Roberds

Jay,

not flying within the borders of some insignificantly
small European country.


You're trying really hard to join MX in the club of village idiots,
arent't you? What's the purpose of turning to insults once someone
points out you're wrong?

As for the facts: So you cross an international border on the way from
Berlin to Paris. So you file a flight plan. That's it. Big deal. What's
that got to do with your assertion of less freedom? Zip! So the US is a
bigger country than the countries in Europe. What's that got to do
with your assertion of less freedom? Zip!

But you knew all that. You're just trying to insult people. Like MX.
Sad.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

They won't let you.

mike

"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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"mike regish" wrote in message
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I dunno. I used to park right off the end of the runway at BDL. Planes
would be maybe 200' over me on final. Can't do that anymore.

mike

Why not?

Jay B

It's getting very real again.

mike

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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mike regish writes:

"Nuclear" (rather "newcular") is also in the news every friggin' day,
just
like when I was a kid my kids age.

Except that, when you were a kid, the threat was real.

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These are the flight conditions you guys who choose to live in and
around the Washington, DC area must contend with, and there's nothing
you can do about it, short of voting the *******s out of office (for
all the good *that* will do).

That's hard to do, with all those farmers in Iowa voting them back
into office.

That's pretty funny. Iowa (and the rest of the country) pretty much
did a clean-sweep of the Republicans in the last election.

It won't change anything. In fact, it will make things worse --
probably much worse.

And I contend that -- other than you poor guys that are stuck in or
near that stupid ADIZ -- *nothing* has changed for the rest of us.

They will come for others first, and if you do nothing to prevent it,
eventually they will come for you, when there is no one else left to
prevent it.

??? Been reading too many mystery novels, Anthony? No one "comes
for others" here.

Hell, I wish they *would* round up some people -- but they won't. Any
one of us can point out half a dozen illegal aliens, living quite
openly, at any given time. Think there might be a number to call to
report them, and have them hauled back to the border? Maybe the
police? The FBI?

Nope. No one in authority cares -- they're "too busy" fighting the
war on drugs, or something. Which is why we have lost control of our
own borders.

And I'll stand by that assertion. I fly as often today -- actually
more -- than I did pre-9/11, and (so long as I avoid your area), I fly
with exactly the same rules, freedoms, and regulations as before.

It's not saying much to be able to fly over empty farmland.

Well, in case you never checked, 95% of America is empty. That's what
makes it so wonderful.

And, of course, I can fly to Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, or Kansas City -- for lunch -- and be home by supper.
(Although I *do* have to have a radio in my plane to do that, dang
it...)

In short, MX's contention is completely, utterly, and thankfully wrong.

Famous last words. Unfortunately this perception is all too
widespread.

The truth often is.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck writes:

That's pretty funny. Iowa (and the rest of the country) pretty much
did a clean-sweep of the Republicans in the last election.

Not in the last Presidential election.

It won't change anything. In fact, it will make things worse --
probably much worse.

In an affluent democracy, things always tend to get worse.

??? Been reading too many mystery novels, Anthony? No one "comes
for others" here.

There's always a first time.

Well, in case you never checked, 95% of America is empty. That's what
makes it so wonderful.

A lot of the population lives in non-empty parts of the country, and
that's what they like.

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Thomas Borchert writes:

You're trying really hard to join MX in the club of village idiots,
arent't you? What's the purpose of turning to insults once someone
points out you're wrong?

What's the purpose of your two insults above?

But you knew all that. You're just trying to insult people. Like MX.
Sad.

Sad? I had to smile when I read your post.

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mike regish writes:

It's getting very real again.

Not in the least. In general, you can take just about anything the
media say and flush it down the toilet, as it's worthless.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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What's the purpose of your two insults above?

OOPS! I forgot that I am refractory to personal insults.

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What's the purpose of your two insults above?

OOPS! I forgot that I am refractory to personal insults.

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