---------------------------------------------------------- RVSouthEast-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 07/05/07: 24 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 02:38 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Bill Settle) 2. 03:54 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Bill Boyd) 3. 04:02 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Bill Boyd) 4. 04:08 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Tad Sargent) 5. 04:28 AM - online airplane tracker (Bill Boyd) 6. 04:29 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Bill Boyd) 7. 05:33 AM - Re: online airplane tracker (JohnCClarkVA@cs.com) 8. 05:33 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Ron Schreck) 9. 05:36 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Ed Anderson) 10. 06:07 AM - Re: online airplane tracker (JohnCClarkVA@cs.com) 11. 06:12 AM - NC Airport Tour (Ron Schreck) 12. 07:04 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Robbie Walker) 13. 08:16 AM - Re: online airplane tracker (Bill Boyd) 14. 08:58 AM - Re: NC Airport Tour is DONE! (Lenleg@aol.com) 15. 12:55 PM - Labor Day weekend 2007 (bill crothers) 16. 01:38 PM - Re: Labor Day weekend 2007 (Ron Schreck) 17. 03:14 PM - Re: NC Airport Tour (Randy Utsey) 18. 03:40 PM - Re: NC Airport Tour (Ron Schreck) 19. 03:50 PM - Re: Labor Day weekend 2007 (bburril) 20. 05:03 PM - Re: Labor Day weekend 2007 (Larry Bowen) 21. 05:03 PM - Re: Labor Day weekend 2007 (Larry Bowen) 22. 05:07 PM - Re: Labor Day weekend 2007 (Steve Glasgow) 23. 05:07 PM - Re: Labor Day weekend 2007 (Steve Glasgow) 24. 09:21 PM - Ron gets top reference on "VansAirForce.net" (James Clark) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 02:38:10 AM PST US From: Bill Settle Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! Congratulations! Highly impressive. Sure makes me feel like an underachiever... > > From: "Ron Schreck" > Date: 2007/07/04 Wed PM 07:48:27 EST > To: "RV Southeast List" > Subject: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! > > I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say my 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I have had the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower and bed. I'll provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For now, thanks for all the support along the way and the words of encouragement as well. > > 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! > > Later, > > Ron Schreck > RV-8, "Miss Izzy" > Gold Hill Airpark, NC > ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 03:54:25 AM PST US From: "Bill Boyd" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! On 7/4/07, Ron Schreck wrote: > > I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say my > 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I have had > the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower and bed. I'll > provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For now, thanks for all the > support along the way and the words of encouragement as well. > > 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! > > Later, > > Ron Schreck > RV-8, "Miss Izzy" > Gold Hill Airpark, NC > > * > > > * > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 04:02:27 AM PST US From: "Bill Boyd" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! Ron: Miriam and I followed your exploits with gusto, cheering loudly each time Kathy sent a new update. I was busy much of the day flying and hiking around (pass the Motrin, please) with my new GPS online tracker toy to see if it would work, but your way to fight boredom on the 4th certainly takes top honors. I'm impressed by your speed, stamina, night flying skills, and the tremendous logistical planning that went into this accomplishment, and we're very glad you're home safe after 110 landings. The recognition coming your way in the next few days is certainly well-deserved and hard-earned. You've put SERV in the record books, and we appreciate you. So how come a guy with your skills can't get to the canyons of Utah and Arizona when he's already come as far as Yellowstone, huh? ;-) Kudos, -Stormy On 7/4/07, Ron Schreck wrote: > > I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say my > 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I have had > the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower and bed. I'll > provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For now, thanks for all the > support along the way and the words of encouragement as well. > > 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! > > Later, > > Ron Schreck > RV-8, "Miss Izzy" > Gold Hill Airpark, NC > > * > > > * > > ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 04:08:54 AM PST US From: "Tad Sargent" Subject: RE: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! That was one awesome day. Congratulations, I was thinking, Has anyone done this for South Carolina, or Virginia, now that you have this figured out Maybe you need another challenge. I bet Kathy is up for it. Stripes _____ From: owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Ron Schreck Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:48 PM Subject: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say my 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I have had the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower and bed. I'll provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For now, thanks for all the support along the way and the words of encouragement as well. 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! Later, Ron Schreck RV-8, "Miss Izzy" Gold Hill Airpark, NC ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 04:28:39 AM PST US From: "Bill Boyd" Subject: RVSouthEast-List: online airplane tracker No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do with a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio walkie talkie (and a license for same, naturally): http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200 The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. It will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are other sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 days later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be fooled by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on the ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times in 3 hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed by shortages on the supplier's end. Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying Huh? I don't see anything... -Stormy ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 04:29:53 AM PST US From: "Bill Boyd" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! Virginia: home of the permanent Temporary ADIZ. I doubt it's feasible for that reason alone, but you're welcome to try. -Bill On 7/5/07, Tad Sargent wrote: > > That was one awesome day. Congratulations, > > I was thinking, > > Has anyone done this for South Carolina, or > Virginia, now that you have this figured out > > Maybe you need another challenge. > > I bet Kathy is up for it. > > Stripes > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com [mailto: > owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com] *On Behalf Of *Ron Schreck > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:48 PM > *To:* RV Southeast List > *Subject:* RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! > > > I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say my > 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I have had > the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower and bed. I'll > provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For now, thanks for all the > support along the way and the words of encouragement as well. > > > 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! > > > Later, > > > Ron Schreck > > RV-8, "Miss Izzy" > > Gold Hill Airpark, NC > > * * > > * * > > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > * * > > * > > > * > > ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 05:33:43 AM PST US From: JohnCClarkVA@cs.com Subject: RE: RVSouthEast-List: online airplane tracker Stormy, that is really neat but don't mention it to Carmen. She already keeps tabs on me, I just don't want it to be too easy. Regards, John. "Bill Boyd" wrote: >No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do with >a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio walkie >talkie (and a license for same, naturally): > >http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200 > >The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same >afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. It >will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are other >sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 days >later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude >telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show >unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be fooled >by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of >Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on the >ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times in 3 >hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got >picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This >occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very >feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed by >shortages on the supplier's end. > >Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will >begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying >Huh? I don't see anything... > >-Stormy > ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 05:33:43 AM PST US From: "Ron Schreck" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! In retrospect, we probably should have accompanied you to Arizona and Utah. Looks like you had a good time. I was trying to be responsible and stay within our budget while Kathy was thinking "I have time, he has money, let's go". I'm trying to impress upon her that just because she has checks and a credit card doesn't mean she has money! Anyway, we would like to take a trip with you guys sometime. You and Miriam are great company and it could be a wonderful time. Let's think about it! Smokey ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Boyd To: rvsoutheast-list@matronics.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:02 AM Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! Ron: Miriam and I followed your exploits with gusto, cheering loudly each time Kathy sent a new update. I was busy much of the day flying and hiking around (pass the Motrin, please) with my new GPS online tracker toy to see if it would work, but your way to fight boredom on the 4th certainly takes top honors. I'm impressed by your speed, stamina, night flying skills, and the tremendous logistical planning that went into this accomplishment, and we're very glad you're home safe after 110 landings. The recognition coming your way in the next few days is certainly well-deserved and hard-earned. You've put SERV in the record books, and we appreciate you. So how come a guy with your skills can't get to the canyons of Utah and Arizona when he's already come as far as Yellowstone, huh? ;-) Kudos, -Stormy On 7/4/07, Ron Schreck wrote: I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say my 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I have had the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower and bed. I'll provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For now, thanks for all the support along the way and the words of encouragement as well. 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! Later, Ron Schreck RV-8, "Miss Izzy" Gold Hill Airpark, NC http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?RVSouthEast-List http://forums.matronics.com ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 05:36:12 AM PST US From: "Ed Anderson" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! Congratulations! Ron What a great way to make a great day even better. A adventure that we all shared with you (vicariously of course). Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Schreck To: RV Southeast List Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:48 PM Subject: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say my 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I have had the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower and bed. I'll provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For now, thanks for all the support along the way and the words of encouragement as well. 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! Later, Ron Schreck RV-8, "Miss Izzy" Gold Hill Airpark, NC ________________________________ Message 10 ____________________________________ Time: 06:07:57 AM PST US From: JohnCClarkVA@cs.com Subject: RE: RVSouthEast-List: online airplane tracker Stormy, sent this to our guys in the lab. They found this! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251122,00.html A chip implant? JohnCClarkVA wrote: >Stormy, that is really neat but don't mention it to Carmen. She already keeps tabs on me, I just don't want it to be too easy. Regards, John. > >"Bill Boyd" wrote: > >>No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do with >>a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio walkie >>talkie (and a license for same, naturally): >> >>http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200 >> >>The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same >>afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. It >>will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are other >>sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 days >>later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude >>telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show >>unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be fooled >>by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of >>Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on the >>ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times in 3 >>hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got >>picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This >>occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very >>feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed by >>shortages on the supplier's end. >> >>Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will >>begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying >>Huh? I don't see anything... >> >>-Stormy >> > ________________________________ Message 11 ____________________________________ Time: 06:12:24 AM PST US From: "Ron Schreck" Subject: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour Can't say that I'm ready to do it all over again, but a long shower and a good night's sleep are just what I needed after flying for over seventeen hours yesterday! I'm not sure where the idea came from, but at some point I decided that it sure would be neat to touch down at all of the public use airports in North Carolina. Then some idiot (perhaps me) suggested that it might be possible to do it in one day! That's 109 landings in 24 hours! (110 if you count my home field, which is a private airport.) As Tom May, my next door neighbor pointed out, that's a landing every thirteen minutes. Impossible! As it turned out, after seventeen hours and six minutes of flying time I touched down at all 110 airports (109 public plus one private) and averaged a landing every nine and a half minutes. Total distance, not including circling to land and a few bomber patterns behind "normal" pilots, was 1991 nautical miles and the average speed was 116 knots. The total elapsed time was 19 hours, 51 minutes from the first public airport, Concord Regional Airport (JQF) to the last, Siler City Municipal Airport (5W8). I spent two hours cooling my heels at Currituck County Airport (ONX), waiting for sunrise so I could start knocking off the unlighted airports. First Flight Airport (FFA) at Kitty Hawk was the first unlighted destination and it felt pretty awesome to land at the site of man's first powered flight at first light on Independence Day! Being a holiday, most of the restricted areas were cold and all of the military bases were quiet but a few events did make me wonder if the day was to be successful. Upon arrival at Wilson Industrial Air Center (W03) at 1:42 AM the airfield lights refused to come on when I triggered the mic button. I didn't want to have my record blemished by omitting a single airport so I circled the field at about 800 feet and made out the runway markings by the moonlight. A single porch light on a building next to the approach end made a good target, so I established a landing pattern and accomplished the "porch light" approach to runway 21. My landing light and a =BE moon gave just enough light so see the centerline of the runway on short final. There are 21 turf fields among the 109 destinations and some of them are downright scary! The shortest are 1400 feet long with huge trees at both ends! I managed a touch-and-go at all of them, but must admit that it would have been a real challenge to make a full-stop landing at some. Keck's Airport (N88) was real special. The NC Airport Guide has "special notices/warnings" which note that Keck's has "agricultural equipment on runway and buildings on NW edge of runway." What they don't say is that if you stray just 10 feet off the centerline you will leave your wingtip in a tractor garage. There are mowers, tractors and junk all over the place and an aluminum irrigation pipe is laid across the center of the runway. As if all these obstructions were insufficient to deter one from attempting to land, the farmer jumping up and down and furiously waving his arms was also a good indicator. I managed to touch down between the irrigation pipe and the tractor and I still have both my wingtips, so I must have missed the tractor garage. I now know where Goose Creek (28A) got it's name. I was forced to land long as about fifty geese strolled across the approach end of runway four. I was pleased to see some of my RV buddies emerge from a hangar at Goose Creek and wave frantically as I passed by. I gave them a blast of smoke and a wing rock then raced off to the next destination. I refueled four times. The first stop was at Currituck County Airport (ONX) at 3:09 AM. It was very dark and very quiet and I stayed for nearly two hours, waiting for first light. It was so peaceful that I feared I would fall asleep and miss the entire day! The old gentleman that helped refuel the plane at Curtis Brown Field (EYF) was thrilled to hear all about my trip and was amazed to see a flight plan with 109 turn points! Tad Sargent, one of my RV formation buddies met me at Ashe County Airport (GEV) and supervised the refueling while I took a break. He even used his own credit card to pay for the gas so I didn't have to wait around for the interminable credit card approval process. Thanks, Tad; I owe you a few bucks and a whole lot more. The last fuel stop at Macon County Airport (1A5) was the most expensive at $4.64 per gallon, but hey, they gotta' make a living and I was in no position to bargain. A serious case of get-home-itus was beginning to take hold of me. I finally arrived home at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM and was greeted by all of my neighbors who were gathered for the Independence Day picnic. George Orndorff kept the grill hot for me and I topped off the day with a burger and a Miller. My thanks to Larry Bowen, Tad Sargent, Len Leggett and Tom May who called several airports to warn them of my arrival and to my wife, Kathy who manned the "command center" at home, keeping everyone appraised of my progress as I sent text messages to her along the way. It was a great trip. Total Airports: 110 (109 public use plus 1 private) Total Elapsed Time: 19 hours, 51 minutes. Total Flying Time: 17 hours, 6 minutes. Furthest distance between two airports on route: 65.4 NM Closest distance between two airports on route: 1.16 NM Average distance between airports: 18.26 NM Average speed along route: 116 knots Ron Schreck RV-8, "Miss Izzy" Gold Hill Airpark, NC EAA #662612 AOPA #05652004 ________________________________ Message 12 ____________________________________ Time: 07:04:19 AM PST US From: Robbie Walker Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! Congrats! You da man! On Jul 4, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Ron Schreck wrote: > I'm back! Touched down at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM. Can't say > my 110th landing for the day was my best, but it sure felt good! I > have had the hamburger and Miller beer, so now's time for a shower > and bed. I'll provide a comprehensive report sometime later. For > now, thanks for all the support along the way and the words of > encouragement as well. > > 109 NC Public Use Airports in 19 hours, 51 minutes! > > Later, > > Ron Schreck > RV-8, "Miss Izzy" > Gold Hill Airpark, NC > > ________________________________ Message 13 ____________________________________ Time: 08:16:12 AM PST US From: "Bill Boyd" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: online airplane tracker I was going to say, she probably has you "tagged" already. -Bill On 7/5/07, JohnCClarkVA@cs.com wrote: > > > Stormy, sent this to our guys in the lab. They found this! > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251122,00.html > > A chip implant? > > > JohnCClarkVA wrote: > > >Stormy, that is really neat but don't mention it to Carmen. She already > keeps tabs on me, I just don't want it to be too easy. Regards, John. > > > >"Bill Boyd" wrote: > > > >>No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do > with > >>a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio > walkie > >>talkie (and a license for same, naturally): > >> > >>http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200 > >> > >>The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same > >>afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. > It > >>will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are > other > >>sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 > days > >>later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude > >>telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show > >>unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be > fooled > >>by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of > >>Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on > the > >>ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times > in 3 > >>hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got > >>picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This > >>occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very > >>feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed > by > >>shortages on the supplier's end. > >> > >>Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will > >>begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying > >>Huh? I don't see anything... > >> > >>-Stormy > >> > > > > ________________________________ Message 14 ____________________________________ Time: 08:58:46 AM PST US From: Lenleg@aol.com Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour is DONE! Conrats Ron .... a fourth of July to always remember !!!! Len ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ________________________________ Message 15 ____________________________________ Time: 12:55:11 PM PST US From: bill crothers Subject: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 Well, another holiday has passed and the next one in line is Labor Day. I offer as one option for SERVers a return to Ashe Co. and Jefferson Landing for the long weekend. Besides cool weather, you will find bike riding on the Va. Creeper trail, canoe/tube/kayaks on the New River, meals at Shatley Springs and other good selections. A cookout at our house is also likely w/ homemade ice cream and other goodies. Shopping and siteseeing at W. Jefferson and Blowing Rock galleries and antique stores also fill the bill. I found 3 and 4 BR condos avail. that weekend for about $75-80 per nite per couple. As before, we can rent cars as needed to supplement our 2 for max movement around the area. There may be a few aviators wanting to buzz around the mtns. and sitesee as well. Depending on interest, we can reserve rooms as needed. If another venue is more in demand, we can go elsewhere, but this can start the discussions for another SERV gathering...looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts...Reno Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 ________________________________ Message 16 ____________________________________ Time: 01:38:20 PM PST US From: "Ron Schreck" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 All depends on the wildfires out west, but count Smokey and Kathy in. Ron do not archive ----- Original Message ----- From: "bill crothers" Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:54 PM Subject: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 > > > Well, another holiday has passed and the next one in > line is Labor Day. I offer as one option for SERVers > a return to Ashe Co. and Jefferson Landing for the > long weekend. Besides cool weather, you will find > bike riding on the Va. Creeper trail, > canoe/tube/kayaks on the New River, meals at Shatley > Springs and other good selections. A cookout at our > house is also likely w/ homemade ice cream and other > goodies. Shopping and siteseeing at W. Jefferson and > Blowing Rock galleries and antique stores also fill > the bill. I found 3 and 4 BR condos avail. that > weekend for about $75-80 per nite per couple. As > before, we can rent cars as needed to supplement our 2 > for max movement around the area. There may be a few > aviators wanting to buzz around the mtns. and sitesee > as well. Depending on interest, we can reserve rooms > as needed. If another venue is more in demand, we can > go elsewhere, but this can start the discussions for > another SERV gathering...looking forward to hearing > everyone's thoughts...Reno > > > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > > ________________________________ Message 17 ____________________________________ Time: 03:14:07 PM PST US From: "Randy Utsey" Subject: RE: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour Great job Ron, did they let you make a touch & go at CLT? Randy From: owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Ron Schreck Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:12 AM Subject: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour Can=92t say that I=92m ready to do it all over again, but a long shower and a good night=92s sleep are just what I needed after flying for over seventeen hours yesterday! I=92m not sure where the idea came from, but at some point I decided that it sure would be neat to touch down at all of the public use airports in North Carolina. Then some idiot (perhaps me) suggested that it might be possible to do it in one day! That=92s 109 landings in 24 hours! (110 if you count my home field, which is a private airport.) As Tom May, my next door neighbor pointed out, that=92s a landing every thirteen minutes. Impossible! As it turned out, after seventeen hours and six minutes of flying time I touched down at all 110 airports (109 public plus one private) and averaged a landing every nine and a half minutes. Total distance, not including circling to land and a few bomber patterns behind "normal" pilots, was 1991 nautical miles and the average speed was 116 knots. The total elapsed time was 19 hours, 51 minutes from the first public airport, Concord Regional Airport (JQF) to the last, Siler City Municipal Airport (5W8). I spent two hours cooling my heels at Currituck County Airport (ONX), waiting for sunrise so I could start knocking off the unlighted airports. First Flight Airport (FFA) at Kitty Hawk was the first unlighted destination and it felt pretty awesome to land at the site of man=92s first powered flight at first light on Independence Day! Being a holiday, most of the restricted areas were cold and all of the military bases were quiet but a few events did make me wonder if the day was to be successful. Upon arrival at Wilson Industrial Air Center (W03) at 1:42 AM the airfield lights refused to come on when I triggered the mic button. I didn=92t want to have my record blemished by omitting a single airport so I circled the field at about 800 feet and made out the runway markings by the moonlight. A single porch light on a building next to the approach end made a good target, so I established a landing pattern and accomplished the "porch light" approach to runway 21. My landing light and a =BE moon gave just enough light so see the centerline of the runway on short final. There are 21 turf fields among the 109 destinations and some of them are downright scary! The shortest are 1400 feet long with huge trees at both ends! I managed a touch-and-go at all of them, but must admit that it would have been a real challenge to make a full-stop landing at some. Keck=92s Airport (N88) was real special. The NC Airport Guide has "special notices/warnings" which note that Keck=92s has "agricultural equipment on runway and buildings on NW edge of runway." What they don=92t say is that if you stray just 10 feet off the centerline you will leave your wingtip in a tractor garage. There are mowers, tractors and junk all over the place and an aluminum irrigation pipe is laid across the center of the runway. As if all these obstructions were insufficient to deter one from attempting to land, the farmer jumping up and down and furiously waving his arms was also a good indicator. I managed to touch down between the irrigation pipe and the tractor and I still have both my wingtips, so I must have missed the tractor garage. I now know where Goose Creek (28A) got it=92s name. I was forced to land long as about fifty geese strolled across the approach end of runway four. I was pleased to see some of my RV buddies emerge from a hangar at Goose Creek and wave frantically as I passed by. I gave them a blast of smoke and a wing rock then raced off to the next destination. I refueled four times. The first stop was at Currituck County Airport (ONX) at 3:09 AM. It was very dark and very quiet and I stayed for nearly two hours, waiting for first light. It was so peaceful that I feared I would fall asleep and miss the entire day! The old gentleman that helped refuel the plane at Curtis Brown Field (EYF) was thrilled to hear all about my trip and was amazed to see a flight plan with 109 turn points! Tad Sargent, one of my RV formation buddies met me at Ashe County Airport (GEV) and supervised the refueling while I took a break. He even used his own credit card to pay for the gas so I didn=92t have to wait around for the interminable credit card approval process. Thanks, Tad; I owe you a few bucks and a whole lot more. The last fuel stop at Macon County Airport (1A5) was the most expensive at $4.64 per gallon, but hey, they gotta=92 make a living and I was in no position to bargain. A serious case of get-home-itus was beginning to take hold of me. I finally arrived home at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM and was greeted by all of my neighbors who were gathered for the Independence Day picnic. George Orndorff kept the grill hot for me and I topped off the day with a burger and a Miller. My thanks to Larry Bowen, Tad Sargent, Len Leggett and Tom May who called several airports to warn them of my arrival and to my wife, Kathy who manned the "command center" at home, keeping everyone appraised of my progress as I sent text messages to her along the way. It was a great trip. Total Airports: 110 (109 public use plus 1 private) Total Elapsed Time: 19 hours, 51 minutes. Total Flying Time: 17 hours, 6 minutes. Furthest distance between two airports on route: 65.4 NM Closest distance between two airports on route: 1.16 NM Average distance between airports: 18.26 NM Average speed along route: 116 knots Ron Schreck RV-8, "Miss Izzy" Gold Hill Airpark, NC EAA #662612 AOPA #05652004 ________________________________ Message 18 ____________________________________ Time: 03:40:31 PM PST US From: "Ron Schreck" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour You bet! At 12:07 AM there isn't much traffic. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Randy Utsey To: rvsoutheast-list@matronics.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:13 PM Subject: RE: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour Great job Ron, did they let you make a touch & go at CLT? Randy From: owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-rvsoutheast-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Ron Schreck Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:12 AM To: Collins, Bob; RV Southeast List Subject: RVSouthEast-List: NC Airport Tour Can't say that I'm ready to do it all over again, but a long shower and a good night's sleep are just what I needed after flying for over seventeen hours yesterday! I'm not sure where the idea came from, but at some point I decided that it sure would be neat to touch down at all of the public use airports in North Carolina. Then some idiot (perhaps me) suggested that it might be possible to do it in one day! That's 109 landings in 24 hours! (110 if you count my home field, which is a private airport.) As Tom May, my next door neighbor pointed out, that's a landing every thirteen minutes. Impossible! As it turned out, after seventeen hours and six minutes of flying time I touched down at all 110 airports (109 public plus one private) and averaged a landing every nine and a half minutes. Total distance, not including circling to land and a few bomber patterns behind "normal" pilots, was 1991 nautical miles and the average speed was 116 knots. The total elapsed time was 19 hours, 51 minutes from the first public airport, Concord Regional Airport (JQF) to the last, Siler City Municipal Airport (5W8). I spent two hours cooling my heels at Currituck County Airport (ONX), waiting for sunrise so I could start knocking off the unlighted airports. First Flight Airport (FFA) at Kitty Hawk was the first unlighted destination and it felt pretty awesome to land at the site of man's first powered flight at first light on Independence Day! Being a holiday, most of the restricted areas were cold and all of the military bases were quiet but a few events did make me wonder if the day was to be successful. Upon arrival at Wilson Industrial Air Center (W03) at 1:42 AM the airfield lights refused to come on when I triggered the mic button. I didn't want to have my record blemished by omitting a single airport so I circled the field at about 800 feet and made out the runway markings by the moonlight. A single porch light on a building next to the approach end made a good target, so I established a landing pattern and accomplished the "porch light" approach to runway 21. My landing light and a =BE moon gave just enough light so see the centerline of the runway on short final. There are 21 turf fields among the 109 destinations and some of them are downright scary! The shortest are 1400 feet long with huge trees at both ends! I managed a touch-and-go at all of them, but must admit that it would have been a real challenge to make a full-stop landing at some. Keck's Airport (N88) was real special. The NC Airport Guide has "special notices/warnings" which note that Keck's has "agricultural equipment on runway and buildings on NW edge of runway." What they don't say is that if you stray just 10 feet off the centerline you will leave your wingtip in a tractor garage. There are mowers, tractors and junk all over the place and an aluminum irrigation pipe is laid across the center of the runway. As if all these obstructions were insufficient to deter one from attempting to land, the farmer jumping up and down and furiously waving his arms was also a good indicator. I managed to touch down between the irrigation pipe and the tractor and I still have both my wingtips, so I must have missed the tractor garage. I now know where Goose Creek (28A) got it's name. I was forced to land long as about fifty geese strolled across the approach end of runway four. I was pleased to see some of my RV buddies emerge from a hangar at Goose Creek and wave frantically as I passed by. I gave them a blast of smoke and a wing rock then raced off to the next destination. I refueled four times. The first stop was at Currituck County Airport (ONX) at 3:09 AM. It was very dark and very quiet and I stayed for nearly two hours, waiting for first light. It was so peaceful that I feared I would fall asleep and miss the entire day! The old gentleman that helped refuel the plane at Curtis Brown Field (EYF) was thrilled to hear all about my trip and was amazed to see a flight plan with 109 turn points! Tad Sargent, one of my RV formation buddies met me at Ashe County Airport (GEV) and supervised the refueling while I took a break. He even used his own credit card to pay for the gas so I didn't have to wait around for the interminable credit card approval process. Thanks, Tad; I owe you a few bucks and a whole lot more. The last fuel stop at Macon County Airport (1A5) was the most expensive at $4.64 per gallon, but hey, they gotta' make a living and I was in no position to bargain. A serious case of get-home-itus was beginning to take hold of me. I finally arrived home at Gold Hill Airpark at 8:09 PM and was greeted by all of my neighbors who were gathered for the Independence Day picnic. George Orndorff kept the grill hot for me and I topped off the day with a burger and a Miller. My thanks to Larry Bowen, Tad Sargent, Len Leggett and Tom May who called several airports to warn them of my arrival and to my wife, Kathy who manned the "command center" at home, keeping everyone appraised of my progress as I sent text messages to her along the way. It was a great trip. Total Airports: 110 (109 public use plus 1 private) Total Elapsed Time: 19 hours, 51 minutes. Total Flying Time: 17 hours, 6 minutes. Furthest distance between two airports on route: 65.4 NM Closest distance between two airports on route: 1.16 NM Average distance between airports: 18.26 NM Average speed along route: 116 knots Ron Schreck RV-8, "Miss Izzy" Gold Hill Airpark, NC EAA #662612 AOPA #05652004 http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?RVSouthEast-Listhttp://forums.matronic s.com ________________________________ Message 19 ____________________________________ Time: 03:50:12 PM PST US From: "bburril" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 For the next discussion,maybe we could go to anson cty,get the car and go have lunch at Mike Barbee,s restaurant.It would have to be on sat as they do not open on sunday. ----- Original Message ----- From: "bill crothers" Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:54 PM Subject: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 > > > Well, another holiday has passed and the next one in > line is Labor Day. I offer as one option for SERVers > a return to Ashe Co. and Jefferson Landing for the > long weekend. Besides cool weather, you will find > bike riding on the Va. Creeper trail, > canoe/tube/kayaks on the New River, meals at Shatley > Springs and other good selections. A cookout at our > house is also likely w/ homemade ice cream and other > goodies. Shopping and siteseeing at W. Jefferson and > Blowing Rock galleries and antique stores also fill > the bill. I found 3 and 4 BR condos avail. that > weekend for about $75-80 per nite per couple. As > before, we can rent cars as needed to supplement our 2 > for max movement around the area. There may be a few > aviators wanting to buzz around the mtns. and sitesee > as well. Depending on interest, we can reserve rooms > as needed. If another venue is more in demand, we can > go elsewhere, but this can start the discussions for > another SERV gathering...looking forward to hearing > everyone's thoughts...Reno > > > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > > ________________________________ Message 20 ____________________________________ Time: 05:03:19 PM PST US From: "Larry Bowen" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 Sounds good to us! -- Larry & Pam Bowen Larry@BowenAero.com http://BowenAero.com On 7/5/07, bill crothers wrote: > > Well, another holiday has passed and the next one in > line is Labor Day. I offer as one option for SERVers > a return to Ashe Co. and Jefferson Landing for the > long weekend. Besides cool weather, you will find > bike riding on the Va. Creeper trail, > canoe/tube/kayaks on the New River, meals at Shatley > Springs and other good selections. A cookout at our > house is also likely w/ homemade ice cream and other > goodies. Shopping and siteseeing at W. Jefferson and > Blowing Rock galleries and antique stores also fill > the bill. I found 3 and 4 BR condos avail. that > weekend for about $75-80 per nite per couple. As > before, we can rent cars as needed to supplement our 2 > for max movement around the area. There may be a few > aviators wanting to buzz around the mtns. and sitesee > as well. Depending on interest, we can reserve rooms > as needed. If another venue is more in demand, we can > go elsewhere, but this can start the discussions for > another SERV gathering...looking forward to hearing > everyone's thoughts...Reno > > > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > ________________________________ Message 21 ____________________________________ Time: 05:03:40 PM PST US From: "Larry Bowen" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 Ya, let us know when... -- Larry Bowen Larry@BowenAero.com http://BowenAero.com On 7/5/07, bburril wrote: > > For the next discussion,maybe we could go to anson cty,get the car and go > have lunch at Mike Barbee,s restaurant.It would have to be on sat as they do > not open on sunday. ________________________________ Message 22 ____________________________________ Time: 05:07:51 PM PST US From: "Steve Glasgow" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 Me to. Is there going to be a bus to take us home? Cappy ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Bowen To: rvsoutheast-list@matronics.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:02 PM Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 Sounds good to us! -- Larry & Pam Bowen Larry@BowenAero.com http://BowenAero.com On 7/5/07, bill crothers wrote: > > Well, another holiday has passed and the next one in > line is Labor Day. I offer as one option for SERVers > a return to Ashe Co. and Jefferson Landing for the > long weekend. Besides cool weather, you will find > bike riding on the Va. Creeper trail, > canoe/tube/kayaks on the New River, meals at Shatley > Springs and other good selections. A cookout at our > house is also likely w/ homemade ice cream and other > goodies. Shopping and siteseeing at W. Jefferson and > Blowing Rock galleries and antique stores also fill > the bill. I found 3 and 4 BR condos avail. that > weekend for about $75-80 per nite per couple. As > before, we can rent cars as needed to supplement our 2 > for max movement around the area. There may be a few > aviators wanting to buzz around the mtns. and sitesee > as well. Depending on interest, we can reserve rooms > as needed. If another venue is more in demand, we can > go elsewhere, but this can start the discussions for > another SERV gathering...looking forward to hearing > everyone's thoughts...Reno > > > > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > > > > ________________________________ Message 23 ____________________________________ Time: 05:07:52 PM PST US From: "Steve Glasgow" Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 Me too. Cappy ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Bowen To: rvsoutheast-list@matronics.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:03 PM Subject: Re: RVSouthEast-List: Labor Day weekend 2007 Ya, let us know when... -- Larry Bowen Larry@BowenAero.com http://BowenAero.com On 7/5/07, bburril wrote: > > For the next discussion,maybe we could go to anson cty,get the car and go > have lunch at Mike Barbee,s restaurant.It would have to be on sat as they do > not open on sunday. ________________________________ Message 24 ____________________________________ Time: 09:21:09 PM PST US From: "James Clark" Subject: RVSouthEast-List: Ron gets top reference on "VansAirForce.net" For those who per chance don't follow this each day, take a look here ... http://www.vansairforce.net/index.htm Again ... "Way to go Ron!" James -- This is an alternate email. 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