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06-15-2012, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Great post Scott. I've flown over it but never landed. Was there a wind sock anywhere? Hope to fit this in someday...
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06-15-2012, 02:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ohio
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That is really cool!
I'd love to land on a beach someday - I'll have to add this to the bucket list.
Thanks for posting this!
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06-15-2012, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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Too cool. How was the wind? I know it can be a bit breezy at the coast sometimes.
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06-15-2012, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Arlington, WA
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Originally Posted by RVTrumpet
Too cool. How was the wind? I know it can be a bit breezy at the coast sometimes.
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Wind was blowing about 10kts from the NW. The beach landing area is big enough that we landed straight into the wind to the NW (rolling toward the water), and then curved our landing roll-out toward the North. You can see the curved roll-out in the picture with the wheel tracks.
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Originally Posted by Joe Blank
Great post Scott. I've flown over it but never landed. Was there a wind sock anywhere? Hope to fit this in someday...
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Joe, there are two windsocks, one at either end of the "runway". They were both in very good condition and showed wind conditions. There are also two orange marker boards up above the high tide mark to show the ends of the runway.
I gotta admit, this was one of the coolest places I've ever been, and I can't wait to take my wife out here later this summer!
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06-16-2012, 05:35 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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Thanks for sharing..
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06-16-2012, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Arlington, WA
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Originally Posted by Joe Blank
Great post Scott. I've flown over it but never landed. Was there a wind sock anywhere? Hope to fit this in someday...
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Joe, I was just re-reading this thread and realized that there is a picture of one of the windsocks just visible above the vertical stab in the first picture.
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06-16-2012, 09:50 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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I have to point out that it's not the only beach on the west coast that you can land on... Vargas Island, BC also has a nice long beach frequented in the summer/low tide months by pilots.
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06-17-2012, 11:10 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: WA State
Posts: 192
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Does anyone know if there are any other "ocean beaches? in the continental U.S. that permit GA aircraft to land? If so, please share the locations so that others can add them to their bucket list too. Thanks!
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06-17-2012, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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Originally Posted by WhiskeyMike
Does anyone know if there are any other "ocean beaches? in the continental U.S. that permit GA aircraft to land? If so, please share the locations so that others can add them to their bucket list too. Thanks!
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Bill, nothing on this side of CONUS I searched.
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06-17-2012, 12:03 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chandler, Arizona
Posts: 90
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Sand in wheelpants
I have some experience on sand in Mexico.............its something cool to do.......only caution I don't see here is please know your wheel pants will catch a good amount of sand coming off the wheels, especially when the sand is wet. Just adds some weight aft of CG and you have to clean it out of there when you get home...........in my experience I have been suprised by how much sand was in there!
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