Where is your favorite grass field?
09-24-2007, 08:22 AM
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Where is your favorite grass field?
Since grass fields are always fun to fly into, I'm just curious what's everyones favorite grass field and why?
My favorite is Kentmorr Airpark in Maryland, for a very special reason. It was late fall, and the airpark is surrounded by water - right up to end on one end. So because of the amount of bugs around the airport, I put the covers on the plane while we went out and about to visit relatives. When we got back he went out to the plane while I finished saying bye and all...when I got back I was removing the covers and found a ring connected to the streamer on the pitot tube. He took it from me and asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes...and we flew the flight back as the sun was setting over all the lakes. It was perfect. So...here we are today.
That's my story...what's yours?
My favorite is Kentmorr Airpark in Maryland, for a very special reason. It was late fall, and the airpark is surrounded by water - right up to end on one end. So because of the amount of bugs around the airport, I put the covers on the plane while we went out and about to visit relatives. When we got back he went out to the plane while I finished saying bye and all...when I got back I was removing the covers and found a ring connected to the streamer on the pitot tube. He took it from me and asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes...and we flew the flight back as the sun was setting over all the lakes. It was perfect. So...here we are today.
That's my story...what's yours?
09-24-2007, 08:44 AM
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Mallards Landing south of Atlanta. Learned how to fly the J3 Cub there. A a very cool place full of retired Delta pilots with their little airplanes -and some not so little. You will see a PBY Catalina from time to time, and other interesting classics.
09-24-2007, 09:04 AM
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65G-Maple Grove Airport, Fowlerville, MI
It was the place to go with my flight students. Offered a great long rwy, as well as a shorter one with obstacles for fine-tuning some skills. Always well kept too!
It was the place to go with my flight students. Offered a great long rwy, as well as a shorter one with obstacles for fine-tuning some skills. Always well kept too!
09-24-2007, 09:39 AM
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Columbia CA. It's a beautiful spot in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mts. near Lake Tahoe. There is a hard top runway as well. It is a favorite fly in spot for a $100 hamburger and cross country students.
I took a student there for a Xcontry and demonstrated a soft field TO with high Density Altitude. We just about became a statistic. Dumb dumb dumb. Certainly made the point though.
I took a student there for a Xcontry and demonstrated a soft field TO with high Density Altitude. We just about became a statistic. Dumb dumb dumb. Certainly made the point though.
09-24-2007, 02:29 PM
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NH69 which is a private aviation community on the chart just about 15 miles north east of lake winnapesaukee
Public use would have to be Hampton Airfield on the NH seacoast. It is certainly not the nicest field going but it makes up for it ten fold in character
Public use would have to be Hampton Airfield on the NH seacoast. It is certainly not the nicest field going but it makes up for it ten fold in character
09-24-2007, 02:38 PM
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Creve Coeur outside STL- Nice grass, full of Wacos and Monocoupes. Flew a '31 QCF-2 from there to Bartlesville, OK Biplane Fly-in and back for an owner with a bad back. Awesome fly-in a few times a year.
09-24-2007, 02:51 PM
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Just don't go to 1H2 on the weekend...
I refused to take my students to that airport on weekends or after 3pm during the week. Those guys don't really pay attention to the rules, or the safety of anybody in the vicinity. It's pretty notorious around here.
I refused to take my students to that airport on weekends or after 3pm during the week. Those guys don't really pay attention to the rules, or the safety of anybody in the vicinity. It's pretty notorious around here.
09-24-2007, 03:11 PM
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Pip,
C'mon, have some fun- just kidding, it's good judgement to avoid at times like that- the non-radio and restricted-vision antiques on the grass at 90 degrees to the paved runway present a challenge, even when there are no performance demonstrations and lack of performance demonstrations..... Lots of good practice at fitting in to a pattern or learning to fit into a pattern when one's S/A is ready for it.
C'mon, have some fun- just kidding, it's good judgement to avoid at times like that- the non-radio and restricted-vision antiques on the grass at 90 degrees to the paved runway present a challenge, even when there are no performance demonstrations and lack of performance demonstrations..... Lots of good practice at fitting in to a pattern or learning to fit into a pattern when one's S/A is ready for it.
09-24-2007, 03:22 PM
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Oh, it's a cool airport. I have a college buddy who's father owns a stearman and a restoration business over there. Also had a couple students with planes they kept there. One shared hangar space with a cool soviet jet trainer (not an L-39, don't remember what kind). If you ever have a long layover here and access to a car, go check out the museum. It's maybe 15 minutes from the hotels near STL.
It's the Pitts and experimentals over there that like to cut off everybody in the pattern that scare me. Unicom is an interesting listen on a nice Saturday. I've heard pilots cussing each other out at that airport.
It's the Pitts and experimentals over there that like to cut off everybody in the pattern that scare me. Unicom is an interesting listen on a nice Saturday. I've heard pilots cussing each other out at that airport.
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