"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/15/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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Anybody hungry? Airports need more rooftop advertising.
Amarillo, Texas, 1932
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 09:20 |
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On my first long cross-country solo I ran into problems because I didn’t know where I needed to park to get to the restaurant I wanted to visit. It was fortunate that the airport wasn’t that busy and the controller was happy to give me directions. I learned that I really needed to be better prepared. I had all of the runway information, frequencies, etc. I just didn’t know where to park.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/15/2020 at 09:24 |
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But did you stop for lunch?
Being the historian that I am, I still feel nostalgia for the era of painting the location on the roof so people would know where they were.
Just Jeepin'
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 09:42 |
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If I owned an airport in the late 30s I would have painted a big arrow labeled “Long Beach” just to see who’d get the joke.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 09:44 |
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I did! I flew north to Tyler (KTYR) and a friend of mine flew down from Stillwater, OK (KSWO) so we could have lunch together. It was funny, his home airport is untowered, so he wasn’t accustomed to dealing with such a “busy” airport. I was used to dealing with a very busy towered airport, so I thought it was a nice quiet place to meet for lunch.
facw
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 09:49 |
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Not quite the same thing, but there’s a Target here in Boston, with its roof painted, presumably for the benefit of people coming and going from Logan:
(at top left)
There is also now a casino that can see the Target’s roof, but the painted roof pre-dates that, so I’m pretty sure it was meant for planes.
benn454
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 09:59 |
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Drive-thru looks kinda full to me. I'll get something at the next strip.
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ttyymmnn
> Just Jeepin'
09/15/2020 at 10:17 |
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Well, I wouldn’t have gotten it.
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Just Jeepin'
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 10:17 |
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Wrong Way Corrigan.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/15/2020 at 10:20 |
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I remember flying with my Uncle Don from the small municipal airport. No tower. I remember how he did a pass along the runway to check for traffic on the airport and incoming before circling back to land. I just remember how his eyes were out of the plane, scanning scanning scanning.
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ttyymmnn
> facw
09/15/2020 at 10:22 |
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You wouldn’t want that giant target next to an air force base.....
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ttyymmnn
> Just Jeepin'
09/15/2020 at 10:23 |
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Now that I understand.
PyramidHat
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/15/2020 at 10:36 |
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I’m sure you weren’t the first :). I went to KLVK for the first time solo and ground was giving me instructions to turn on a taxiway. When I asked where it was she said “it’s right in front of you”. She was cool about it.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 10:46 |
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It’s super important to scan continuously, especially when you’re away from controlled airspace. I’ve had a number of unsettling experiences that taught me the importance of the scan. I’ve been to two different airports where someone took the runway without calling on the radio. At one of them, my instructor spotted the guy on the taxiway (we were in the pattern) and told me to watch out for him. The fellow has a reputation for not using radios and all of the instructors watch out for him. At a different airport, I was in the pattern and a guy in a Super Cub took off after I had done a touch and go. When I made my crosswind call, he called back to tell me he had already turned crosswind and was about to turn downwind. He thought I was leaving the airport, but my little Cherokee just didn’t perform as well and it took longer to get to pattern altitude. The third “incident” was when I was flying back from the practice area and a Cessna passed directly over me from behind. He was about 1,000 feet above me, but since we were still 15 miles out from the airport, I wasn’t on their frequency and they couldn’t warn me of approaching traffic. I really look forward to getting the equipment to receive ADSB signals. Even with ADSB, there’s still a lot of airplanes out there that won’t be required to have it, so you still have to watch for traffic.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> PyramidHat
09/15/2020 at 10:51 |
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:)
I told ground that this was my first visit to their fine facility and I’d need them to hold my hand for a bit. With two FBOs at their airport , I couldn’t even tell them which one I wanted to go to. Really, I just wanted to meet my friend for lunch. Oh, and get some fuel.
RacinBob
> ttyymmnn
09/15/2020 at 10:52 |
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It reminds me of the Tyler texas airport pre 2001. Because all commercial flights from Tyler were in state, they were not required at that time to have security. It was like a bus terminal, you waited in the Lobby and when it was time to go, you walked through the gate and out doors to the plane, just like you saw there. It felt weird .
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> ttyymmnn
09/16/2020 at 20:17 |
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Painted in Milwaukee
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ttyymmnn
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/16/2020 at 21:43 |
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