Slightly OT-Ping Jay-A Suggestion For Your Inn

RL Anderson wrote:


As I've been looking at your site, I was thinking that something was
missing. Have you ever thought of installing a "Unicom Style" base
station, for your inn, with its own discrete freq? Given your
operation, it might be a dynamite idea to have a freq available so that
if a pilot is transiting your area, they could give you a call to see if
you have space available for an evening stay (i.e.: an "airborne
reservation").

You can buy that service from ARINC. The other option would be to
try to get access to the "unicom frequency for towered airports" or
such. I think it's 121.6 off the top of my head.

Have you ever thought of installing a "Unicom Style" base
station, for your inn, with its own discrete freq? Given your
operation, it might be a dynamite idea to have a freq available so that
if a pilot is transiting your area, they could give you a call to see if
you have space available for an evening stay (i.e.: an "airborne
reservation").

Cool idea! I'll look into it -- thanks, Rick!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I was looking at the exterior photos of the hotel, and I didn't
realize that it was practically in the middle of an airport.

All sorts of ideas spring to mind, but they would all cost a lot of
money. For example, the tower is cool as-is ... but what if it were
remodeled to look like a control tower? With a closed deck on top
overlooking the airport, and scanners to monitor ATC and put it
through a few speakers. And if you had your own UNICOM station ...
well, lots of things could come together.

Are you close enough to the airport that aircraft could taxi and tie
down right outside the hotel? You could style some of the rooms like
gates at an airport. Customers with their own aircraft just taxi up
to the "gate" and hop off. They'd be able to keep an eye on their
aircraft just by looking out the window.

Looking at the Kiwi section, I note that you have part of the airport
simulated for MSFS. Do you have a .bgl file online for download that
shows the airport in detail along with your hotel? I could fly there
in MSFS.

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Looking at the Kiwi section, I note that you have part of the airport
simulated for MSFS. Do you have a .bgl file online for download that
shows the airport in detail along with your hotel? I could fly there
in MSFS.

Not yet. The guys that are modeling Iowa City for me have asked that
I wait till their done before making the "package" of files publically
available.

I'll post here when it's ready for download.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck writes:

Not yet. The guys that are modeling Iowa City for me have asked that
I wait till their done before making the "package" of files publically
available.

I'll post here when it's ready for download.

They are doing the whole city? Cool.

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I'll post here when it's ready for download.

They are doing the whole city? Cool.

Nah, just major landmarks.

Which is good, since it already runs pretty jerky, just with the few
buildings they've modeled thus far. Those add-ons are big files.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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Jay Honeck wrote:
Have you ever thought of installing a "Unicom Style" base
station, for your inn, with its own discrete freq? Given your
operation, it might be a dynamite idea to have a freq available so that
if a pilot is transiting your area, they could give you a call to see if
you have space available for an evening stay (i.e.: an "airborne
reservation").

Cool idea! I'll look into it -- thanks, Rick!

Just to follow up on that, Jay..

Should you do this, or even if you wanted to do this for the
CTAF there, have you thought of putting up a LiveATC feed should you do
this? That wouldn't take much, if anything at all, especially given
your close proximity to the field. There's already a feed for CID, but
for the general aviation guy, and especially the publicity and
advertising you'd get, it may be worthy.

Details are at http://www.liveatc.net. Just a thought.

BL.
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Have you ever thought of installing a "Unicom Style" base
station, for your inn, with its own discrete freq? Given your
operation, it might be a dynamite idea to have a freq available so that
if a pilot is transiting your area, they could give you a call to see if
you have space available for an evening stay (i.e.: an "airborne
reservation").

Another great idea. We already play Unicom in the lobby, and the
scanner is about 4 feet from my computer, which is on all the time,
connected via DSL line to the internet.

I'll check that out, too. Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 2/5/2007 5:56:32 PM, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

Another great idea. We already play Unicom in the lobby, and the
scanner is about 4 feet from my computer, which is on all the time,
connected via DSL line to the internet.

I'll check that out, too. Thanks!

Archives at LiveATC.net are up to 45 days now, so if for no other reason you
should offer the feed so that you will have the ability to listen to your
Unicom calls up to a month and a half after making them.

--
Peter