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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Selino631 on March 15, 2012, 10:44:45 AM
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what is your top 5 airports that you enjoy traveling through? and whats your #1 most avoided airport?
Favorites:
1. Fairbanks International Airport (Alaska) <--- very clean, very quick at getting from the main entrance to the gate
2. Washington-Dulles International Airport (DC/N VA) <---- large airport, but i travleing from the main entrance to the gates is reliteivly simple
3. Salt Lake City International Airport (Utah) <----- easy to find gates.
Avoided: Atlanta-Hartsfield International <--- sucks
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Only been to two more than once soo...
JFK International - NYC
Newark - NJ
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I'm most comfortable at the St Louis airport simply because I have been through it hundreds of times over the years.
The only airport that I try to avoid is O'Hare.
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Jackson, WY
St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
Regan National, Washington DC
There's no shortage of view going into Jackson. Simply beautiful.
St Maarten is pretty cool and tying one on at the Sunset Beach Bar is entertaining with the mix of airplanes coming and going.
Hand flying the River Visual approach into DCA with a strong west wind and rolling out right on the money is one of the precious true stick and rudder moments you have in airliners. Circling to 33 when landing north is fun as well.
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CYYZ (Toronto)-- pretty clean, gates are relatively easy to find
EGPF (Glasgow) It's small, but not tiny
CYVR (Vancouver) it's SO clean. air is SO nice. And it's right by the ocean :)
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I've been through Denver many times, it's nothing special but simple and easy.
I've been to DFW a time or two, and always had fun riding their tram/train thing, but maybe that's because I grew up in the country. :)
Kansas City is an interesting design. Its the closest Intl airport to me so I've never had to switch gates or planes there but you will probably have to leave security to just get to another gate or get anything to eat.
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1) Minneapolis
2) San Francisco
3) Honolulu (gotta love being outside)
Most Hated?
LAX.. Worst, Airport, Ever
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1) Apple Valley .. near Victorville, CA.
Where I solo'd and had the most fun with my clothes on learning to fly.
2) Porterville ..Moonlight Fly In was da bomb.
Where I used Earl's techniques to place second in my first ever flour bombing contest.
Earl flew P-39's and P-47's in WW2, developed a technique to drop bombs that took out the cave-dwelling guns the Germans used in Italy
..it works so well I actually dropped my lil flour bomb right on the judge's chair
..he had set it up right on the bulls eye figuring no one would get close enough
.. ROFL
.. seein him scramble out of it just before the paper bag exploded all over him was *priceless*
Reason I placed second .. used my first bomb to 'calibrate' the grease pencil marks on my side window, didn't get anywhere near the bullseye :)
Had at least a dozen people come up after we landed askin how the heck I did it.
3) Stead, near Reno.
Air Racing. Hearin/feelin the air rumble as they pass over the grandstands goin to full throttle on the dive to the starting line ..
..just an awesome airplane day.
Good times.
-GE aka Frank
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Augusta State Airport where I first solo'd, and now hangar fly.
Bangor International which is about 50 miles NW of Augusta, because it was constructed as an emergency runway for the space shuttles, so naturally it's huge. Now, KC-135s and various other large military aircraft are stationed there, so it's always cool to be flying alongside them (when I say along side, I mean at least 6 miles away :bolt:).
Another cool one is Knox Regional in Rockland, Maine. It's located on the coast, and is a truly beautiful part of the state. In the summer time, it's littered with private jets, and if you're lucky, you can catch a glimpse of John Travolta headed out to his summer home on Islesboro (a small island with a 2,400 long/50 wide runway too small for his jet). There's also a transportation museum based there, so there's bi-planes buzzing around regularly.
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1. Gastons White River Resort - Really cool grass runway with a restaurant on field, and cabins you can rent. You can also rent a boat and go fishing.
2. salamanderett-Grooms field (6Y9) - Another really cool grass runway on the UP of Michigan (Gods country)
3. Boerne Stage Field - Soloed here and now tow gliders and waste alot of time.
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3. Boerne Stage Field - Soloed here and now tow gliders and waste alot of time.
Cool, didn't know you were towing gliders.
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Cool, didn't know you were towing gliders.
I got checked out at the end of the season last year, now I need to do another 3 tows with the head towpilot and I'll be good to go again. Weather hasnt been very cooperative lately.
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Denver
Salt Lake City
Chicago Midway
I liked the look of Orlando, but getting around sucked.
CLE is nice, clean and quite easy as well as offering a nice view of the lakes on take-off/landing, but since it's my hometown 'port I didn't include it.
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I got checked out at the end of the season last year, now I need to do another 3 tows with the head towpilot and I'll be good to go again. Weather hasnt been very cooperative lately.
Very neat. After you're airborn and assuming the glider pilot is flying properly, can you even tell it's there?
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1.) St Maarten is amazing, runway is 30 feet from the beach, such a cool sight seeing massive jets coming and going.
2.) Orlando was nice but agree with Dragon, annoying to get around.
3.) Denver's airport is pretty nice.
Cleveland wasn't too bad besides flying on an airline where half of the gates were in terminal 4 where you had to go underground to get to it. I spent 13 hours there on my way to California due to a missed connection and a 5 hour layover on the way back. Needless to say I know terminal 3 and 4 by heart now.
JFK is too bunched up as is O Hare and LAX...though landing at night into LAX was stunning with all of the lights. Don't get to see that up here in Upstate NY.
Phoenix was nice to take pictures from in the parking garages since planes were taking off/landing on both sides of you.
Never got to really look around Dallas/Ft Worth.
Geez, just thinking about all of the airports I've visited is unreal and that's not even half of them. That would be my top 3 list, but it kind of depends since the question is vague. Scenery, cleanliness, space, etc.
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Always enjoyed the landing at Kai Tak in Hong Kong with flying between the buildings, also Kathmandu looking at Everest in the distance.
Most of the others are just truck stops for planes.
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Very neat. After you're airborn and assuming the glider pilot is flying properly, can you even tell it's there?
We tow with a 150/180. When he moves you feel it, especially when they want to box the wake.
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Well maybe I should revise mine and give my 'real' favorite airports.
1) Sonoma Skypark - Started and finished my pilots license recently there.
2) Half Moon Bay - Nothing beats it on a nice sunny day.
3) Columbia, CA - Great for plane camping.
:aok
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That reminds me, although San Jose is kind of a crap airport, it's an awesome view on climb out. Circling up gives you a great view of San Francisco, Monteray Bay, and the mountains. Landing at San Francisco can be a bit of trip coming in over the bay.
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what is your top 5 airports that you enjoy traveling through? and whats your #1 most avoided airport?
Favorites:
1. Fairbanks International Airport (Alaska) <--- very clean, very quick at getting from the main entrance to the gate
2. Washington-Dulles International Airport (DC/N VA) <---- large airport, but i travleing from the main entrance to the gates is reliteivly simple
3. Salt Lake City International Airport (Utah) <----- easy to find gates.
Avoided: Atlanta-Hartsfield International <--- sucks
Agree w/ salt lake & Atlanta.
Last time I was at the Fairbanks airport, watched a big fat mouse running along the wall. Not among my favs
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This one was fun, but a bit rough. Would have been less concern with a tail-dragger. About 700'x8'.
(http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flypics/ghmidfinal.jpg)
This one is huge by comparison. (http://www.dalefalk.com/Movies/Cessna-Flying/7500591_shhtXt#!i=484201912&k=WukZG)
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This one was fun, but a bit rough. Would have been less concern with a tail-dragger. About 700'x8'.
(http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flypics/ghmidfinal.jpg)
This one is huge by comparison. (http://www.dalefalk.com/Movies/Cessna-Flying/7500591_shhtXt#!i=484201912&k=WukZG)
That's a ncie backdrop, whereabouts?
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Here I am leaving Gastons last year
(http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=24054&d=1317819087)
here's 6Y9
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/313717_1971097637601_1247804014_31731482_4419494_n.jpg)
and here's Boerne
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/252757_1759110098045_1247804014_31500124_6752716_n.jpg)
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Regan National, Washington DC
Hand flying the River Visual approach into DCA with a strong west wind and rolling out right on the money is one of the precious true stick and rudder moments you have in airliners. Circling to 33 when landing north is fun as well.
First time I rode that river approach, with the last min rollout to land, I was like, wtf?!? we crashing? as the people were down on the island and trails and looking up at us... and they weren't tiny... I used to go and watch panes land there once in a while too.
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Favorite would be be Leadville, CO (KLXV).
The next three would be: (not in order)
Block Island (KBID)
Groton (KGON) not sure what it is about this airport, always love touching down on RWY 23 there (been there only 3 or 4 times though)
Sedona (KSEZ)
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MachFly saying leadville reminds me of KTEX (Telluride) another really neat airport.
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/217733_1679140338851_1247804014_31388521_7908922_n.jpg)
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The only airport that I try to avoid is O'Hare.
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I quit flying United because of that God-forsaken place.
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MachFly saying leadville reminds me of KTEX (Telluride) another really neat airport.
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/217733_1679140338851_1247804014_31388521_7908922_n.jpg)
Yeah I've been planning to go there for a while, didn't get a chance yet.
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Kuala Lumpur was very nice
San Francisco is nice
Houston is good
Austin is easy
O'Hare is decent
San Diego got the job done
Newark is ok
Taipei is functional
Mumbai is pretty bad, but they are redoing lots of it
LAX was terrible
Guadalajara, well, you walk out to the plane on the tarmac
Tijuana is like Guadalajara, but smaller
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Shanghai was absurdly bad
I don't remember Honolulu or Maui from my visit when I was 12.
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That's a ncie backdrop, whereabouts?
That is the Knik Glacier is the background...about 15 miles east of Palmer, Alaska.
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1.) Reno/Stead- Most recently for the air races I've attended, in the past flying in there to visit family and being able to run up to the fire bombers, old migs, and t6's that were hanging around the ramp. I also dig the old military buildings around the outskirts, gives it almost a ghost town feeling any time other than the races.
2.) Gainsville, FL- I had heard good things about this place, but if you fly in GA during the college school year, you'll be pleasently surprised. I was parked by a 5'10" blonde who was wearing shorts so small that the marshalling vest appeared to be a dress. Then picked up at the airplane by a very cute brunette who offered my choice of coke, sprite, or water then chauffered me to the door of the FBO(only 25 yards probably, but who am I to turn down a pretty girl). Another 3 behind the counter..... and I think you get it by now :devil .
3.) Vero Beach, FL- Neat airport, have a soft spot for the place I first solo'd, cool corporate jet action, pretty mellow place.
-- I've gone through Denver about a thousand times and it is ok. LAX I've been through several times but always around 4/5 am so it was dead and easy. Honolulu is really neat, you realize you're in paradise right away. Orlando is pretty simple if you don't have to change concourses.
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Singapore...lurverly
Nairobi..cos when I went ( mid 80`s) there where giraffes walking down the perimeter fence
Heathrow...its a smeg hole but either I`m off so its a buzz or coming home which is a buzz
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Yep, i lost all hope for Heathrow.
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Singapore...lurverly
Nairobi..cos when I went ( mid 80`s) there where giraffes walking down the perimeter fence
Heathrow...its a smeg hole but either I`m off so its a buzz or coming home which is a buzz
I know what you mean about the giraffes, we were driving back to the hotel from the airport
after a long work day and one came out from behind some large bushes near the main highway intersection.
We didn't hit it but I can tell you it was a male. BTW that was mid 80's as well.
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CV-59
AVT-59
CVA-59 :D
May she rest in peace :salute