Airport comments for North America
Comments 3,751 to 3,800 of 4,837
re: Don't depart IFR on a VFR day!
Normally, a control tower will put your IFR clearance on request with center, then clear you to taxi to the active while they're waiting for the clearance to arrive for them to relay to you.
re: Don't depart IFR on a VFR day!
In my case, I taxied without the IFR clearance because that was what I was instructed to do when I called for a clearance.
re: Don't depart IFR on a VFR day!
Reply to @david: I don't understand this. Why would you begin to taxi before getting your clearance. Just wondering
re: Danby Is a Classified Installation
According to the FAA, it belongs to
FOUR CORNERS PIPE LINE CO
5900 CHERRY AVE
LONG BEACH, CA 90805
Phone 310-428-9282
and the manager is
BURTON VOSS
5900 CHERRY AVE
LONG BEACH, CA 90805
Phone 310-428-9282
re: Danby Is a Classified Installation
It's in the FAA data, so it's not very classified.
Learning to fly at Sudbury Aviation - 1967.
I learned to fly at Sudbury Aviation during the summer of 1967. At the time I was sixteen years of age. The air service had five Fleet 80s (Fleet Canucks) Some of the registrations that I remember are CF-DYX, CF-HOU, & Cf-ENQ. My father, Doug Calver, was a forestry pilot at the time (MNR) based at Parry Sound. We had just moved from Chapleau that spring. My log book says that I soloed with five hours and 40 minutes. It says that it was the Chief Pilot, Charlie Armstrong who was my instructor on that flight. It was also he who took me on my final fight test for the flight part of the license requirements. We were taking off out of Whitewater Lake and there was a thud, and the engine started to run roughly. I just put it back on the water and we coasted to a stop with the engine running at about 1700 RPM. We shut the engine off and Charlie got out onto the float and opened the cowling. He looked the engine over and commented that the crankcase was cracked. He spun the prop and the engine restarted. We headed back to the dock. We completed the balance of the flight test later in the day in another airplane. He was killed a few years later in a crash in a Cessna 180 (CF-MEO) during the winter time.
Since that time I have had the pleasure of flying with my father, and my brother who learned to fly in Parry Sound at Georgian Bay Airways in 1969. We have had the privilege of owning three different types of airplanes: 1961 Piper Comanche 180, 1975 Beech F33A (gorgeous!!!) and a 1976 Cessna Skyhawk 180. They are all gone now. Wasn't flying them enough because of secular commitments and now who can really afford it anyway! But I have many pleasant memories to recall. My father is now 84 years of age and still in good health. If I still had any one of these airplanes, I'd still give him the left seat.
Thanks for listening,
Dave Calver
Now in North Carolina
Danby Is a Classified Installation
I'm not sure you should have this on here.
Neil's Sky Ranch
Neat little place lots of planes and parts!!!!
re: Lufker Airport
Great airport
Writeup
I visited this airport by foot and did a write-up about it in my blog:
http://fly.blakecrosby.com/2009/05/billy-mitchell-airport.html
First Flight Airport
You won't see the runway until on final, but the Wright Memorial is easy to see and about 300 yd east of the runway.
Rolling out on 2 or 20 you are about 500ft from where it all began in December 1903. Every pilot should land here. A literally awesome place.
KPFN
Nice airport on the water, minutes from the finest, whitest beach sand I've ever seen.
CYQM
CYQM is the home of Moncton Flight College where hundreds of students get the best of flight training.
re: Heath Canyon Airport
Reply to @misterbick: The FAA still marks it as open.
Heath Canyon Airport
In the late 1970s I made several trips to Heath Canyon Airport carrying flourspar miners to and from their work It was not a landing strip for the faint of heart and I would not advise anyone to attempt to land there without some dual with a pilot experienced with the runway. It is a one way runway which lands to he northwest and departs to the southeast. The approach is over a bluff (which can be seen in the picture) that is about 300' high and about two miles southeast of the runway and you are landing on a runway that, though paved, is very narrow. About 500 feet after touch down the runway climbs a hill and then stays level for about 800' before climbing another hill. It is best to touch down shortly after the threshold. There is nearly always a strong crosswind from the west. Once over the bluff you are committed to land as the runway ends against another high bluff which would make any attempt at a go around nearly impossible. Takeoffs should be done from the northwest threshold. I found that, in a Cessna 210 I was not at VR before the first "roller coaster" hill and I had to hold forward pressure so as not to be thrown into the air before the plane was ready to fly and then make a sort of "ski jump" off the second hill. Sometimes I could climb straight out but not usually.
However, this is all moot as I notice that the 2009 DigitalGlobe picture shows X's on the runway.This is just as well as Somebody might be tempted to land there and it really is a dangerous strip.
re: ATIS, communication with CT
Thanks for the info....it's not that I was in a hurry, I was in the plane on the ramp getting ready to taxi. and later inbound for landing. Kind of tough to see the phone# on the gate from either location. ;-) Good to know where I can find it though. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
re: ATIS, communication with CT
Reply to @CathyV:
CDW towers phone number is posted right at the front gate, near ops all numbers are listed you cant miss it. You must have been in a hurry if you didnt catch it.
RobG
ATC
Toth Stagefield is home to the best Air Traffic Controllers the Army has to offer.
pet's policy
What are the restriction , if any, to transport a small animal (a ferret), and what are the additonal charges when traveling with a pet.
New Airport in NE North Carolina
Check out this aiport that opened in May 2009... closing former airport (RZZ)
re: location on map, nice to have in my neighborhood!
It looks like @ptomblin has moved it to the correct location. I'd be nervous using that strip with the trees so close.
location on map, nice to have in my neighborhood!
The location shown is actually about 3 blocks (maybe 1200 feet or so?) east of the actual strip. You can see the strip running north and south. It's quite narrow. Someone built a house right at one end. Rumor has it that there's neighborhood opposition to the strip, but not from me. I've only caught a couple of flights and only one landing (I can recognize the aircraft based there), but I hope to see more. The strip itself is a bit over 1000 feet long, and, as you can see, quite narrow. The trees are pretty high on either side too. WInd directional indication by part of an old water pumping windmill still on a tower.
I understand this is a private airport, and it seems only one aircraft is based there. It looks like an ultralight but perhaps is an LSA. Rumor, from someone who should know, says that Sid used to keep a Luscombe there.
Berz Macomb Airport
I miss Berz Airport every day. I miss all the great folks who used to work there, hang out there, learned to fly there, our customers and the people who flew in and out of Berz macomb Airport.
It breaks my heart every time I pass by that area and see homes in its place. I grew up there and worked there most of my life. I was the third generation in the family business.
It was a business decision to sell. We sold at a good time before the economy took a dive.
Milton H. Berz who built the airport passed away December 6th of 2008. He was an aviation icon and a aviation pioneer.
Jeffery A. Berz (uiz@juno.com)
Hawke Field
Private airstrip.
Lac Eon
Former weather reporting station. 4000' sand/gravel strip.
Photo
Photo of the airstrip looking NNE. http://www.santoy.ca/i/photos/otish/IMG_1974.jpg
re: Where was RCAF Station Fingal?
I remember it well. My Dad was stationed there in 1940 before his transfer to Greenwood RCAF Base in NS. I grew up and went to the two room school house out side of town.
re: Nice strip
A little soft in the spring but you're right, this is a great turf strip.
Landing
IF wind permits, land to east and take off to west. Avoid fling over school.
Sable Island
Not to many people get to visit this place. I spent a month there plus I did some low level flying over it with a navajo.
re: Why does this helistop exist?
That big building across the street is probably a hospital.
re: North South Rwy Obstructed
Oops, didn't mean to imply that the airport was unusable... The E/W runway is 1800 feet long, and clear at both ends.
North South Rwy Obstructed
Although this airport has a 1300 foot north/south strip, it's pretty much unusuable due to the high tension power lines at the south end of the field.
Why does this helistop exist?
Anyone know why this exists? 06C is practically right around the corner, so I have to imagine that there was a specific reason to build this helipad where it is.
re: Where was RCAF Station Fingal?
You can see the runway outline clearly in the Google satellite view above. Switch to map view for driving directions.
Where was RCAF Station Fingal?
No longer in operation. General vicinity of St. Thomas Ontario.
Deer on runway
Always deer on edges of runways, great cheap fuel though
Nice quiet airport in Ashland Wisconsin
Log building as terminal - nicely built and maintained
Learned to fly at the Richard I Bong " Ace of Aces " airport
Small well run airport. Be sure to talk to Bill Amorde in the FBO. Bill is a local legend in flying and has FAA ratings as long as your arm. The guy has done it all, Planes, Balloons, Gliders, Helicopters !!!
Location?
I was only 9 years old when we left the area, but I've put a POI about where I think the airport really was. Rumour had it back then that the owner had put everything in his wife's name because he'd been sued over an accident.
Closed for years
My Family still owns the Campbellford Airport, however it has been closed since my grandfather retired from flying in his mid-seventies. This would have been 20 years ago or maybe better. Time goes fast when you're having fun!
Khya
Home airport
Sudbury Airport
Roland a joke seriously,Don't go see that guy
A-A
unattended, no cell phone reception, large rise in runway to south.
Lancaster
Once when I was in the air over CYTZ, the Lancaster from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum flew 500 feet under me: beautiful plane. Someone told me that it's one of only two airworthy Lancs left in the world
Airport improvements coming!!
The local airport committee is working on a big fly-in on June 20-21st 2009. Details at the airport's new website which looks fantastic! Check it out at flyalmaguin dot com
Can't wait to see this airport get paving, then watch how busy it gets :)
Airport improvements coming!!
The local airport committee is working on a big fly-in on June 20-21st 2009. Details at the airport's new website which looks fantastic! Check it out at flyalmaguin.com
Can't wait to see this airport get paving, then watch how busy it gets :)
Ice Runway
From the CFS:
Opr win rwy only Jan-Apr. Strength & cond subject to seasonal and/or climatic variations confirm availability.
Airport Bird Control, Bird Deterrents.
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