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The travel bug
Ok guys here's the deal.
As most of you know I'm a pilot. However, due to some medical issues the last few years have never gotten a few license endorsements I want to have. Oddly enough I am qualified on military hardware, but not civilian stuff??!!
So with the final medical having been now cleared, and the requisite period of time having passed since any problems, I have the green light to do them now.
So, the plan is to spend some time this fall on the left coast, in Vancouver actually, working on my further endorsements with a friend of mine who runs an air charter service out there. I plan on being out there a month to six weeks. During that time I will do some travelling up and down the coast, especially since I have family in southern California that I don't get to see very often. Including a cousin who has just retired as an airborne officer with the CHP and now works as a commercial pilot down there.
Also while there I will undoubtedly find my way to just south of Portland, Oregon, to an aircraft manufacturer based there. I am *very* seriously looking at buying one of their planes this year.
So, anybody on or near the left coast, or, if I take my own plane out west, those along the north border states, that live near an airport, make contact with me, either on this thread, or by PM, and if I can find my way to your locale, I'll even buy the first coffee!!
BTW, southerners in the east fear not, you have not been left out of the equation!! I plan on coming home via the long way around, the left coast to central CA, then east through the desert and tornado belt, south into Fl, and the Carolina's to see some old buddies, then up the right coast and home.
Best of luck.
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Kenneth, I do indeed have 2 passports.
No, no fear of me running as El Jeffe, I just felt the need to leave town now that Slick Willy from Little Rock is here in Toronto for the big aids conference....
It was quite a moving speech he made the opening day, "I do not believe in the practice unsafe sex, as defined ...".
Ken, what are the names of the smaller airstrips you mentioned? I have a database that lists all airports that are open to the public.
Best of luck.
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Oh easy there Dennis, I quit flying the big boys when my Uncle Sam stopped paying the bills....  .
Of course if you need a pilot for the Tractor Point corporate jet or something...... LMAO!!!
No, all I need is 1000' or better of fairly smooth turf.
In fact my employees have been surprised more than once by my arrival to the fairway of an unfinished golf course.
Basically if someone has the nerve to call it an airstrip it will work for me.
Best of luck.
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I didn't know Earthworks built airports !!!
The runway's a CIRCLE!!!!
Oh, wait a minute, that's the race track, sorry....
At the moment, the plan puts me about 500 or 600 miles north of you Iowa, but the map says theres a village called Murphy nearby, and gophers might be in season by then, so you never know.
Art, Burger King is 4.3 miles away, up on Mountain Ave. by the highway. .
Best of luck.
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Chief, Your locale is a little north of where Iwas planning on doing the W/E leg, but that sure is some pretty scenery up that way. Maybe a special Chief / Peters detour is in order.....
Actually Keneth I was out for a test flight with a friend the other day in his recently rebuilt bird, his son was along and we discovered that his WIFI connection worked really well at 5,500' .... but not for long!! .
Maybe a "follow the travels of Murf thread" there might be room on my server here for a photo album and running blog too. The scenery where I'm going to be for most of the trip (Pacific Northwest) is just outstanding, and from the air even more spectacular. I'm trying to get ahold of an approved camera mount for the wing strut so I can document the whole trip.
Possibly a new photo album here, with photos of all the members that I can "drop in" on.
Best of luck.
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As another well-known southerner is often heard to say....
I don' care whoo you are, thet rahht there is funny!!!
Lord, I apologize .......
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Since SG brought it up in the "I'm back" thread.
This trip is now on hold, possibly for a *very* long time.
I was going to wait to see if there was any hope of salvaging it before saying anything, but it's not looking like that's going to happen.
I do still plan on trying to do some travelling this coming late winter / early spring, but will likely only be down the right coast, but even that is not a definite thing now.
Best of luck.
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