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04-01-2007, 11:26 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Sedalia,KY
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Great Pics Dan!!!
Thats what I'm talking about! I want to do some aircraft camping one of these days, when I finally get my PPL done. I look forward to landing in some out-of-the-way places like that. Only we don't have too many dry lake beds in KY! 
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04-02-2007, 04:19 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 50
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Hey Checkoway
Invite me next time will ya, I was looking for something to do!
Mark - N234C
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04-02-2007, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Mansfield TX
Posts: 339
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Hey, let's see how many RV's we can get camping on the lakebed.
That would make a fine picture!
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04-04-2007, 04:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 3
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Rude awakening...
Dan,
What happens when the shuttle driver decides to divert his landing to CA...you guys are in for a rude wake up call.
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04-04-2007, 06:55 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: 57AZ - NW Tucson area
Posts: 10,011
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Different lake
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Originally Posted by kbonline1968
Dan,
What happens when the shuttle driver decides to divert his landing to CA...you guys are in for a rude wake up call.
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Different dry lake, and El Mirage is outside the Edwards restricted area...
However the sonic boom may wake you up.... it shook our trailer at Crystal Airport, 20 - 30 miles South of El Mirage dry lake... 
I believe they keep the restricted area (R-2515) hot when the shuttle is up... I've had T-38 escorts to my sailplane skirting the area the the West... I've also flown over Edwards when the area has been open.... is that a long runway!! 15,000 ft of pavement... and the runway marked on the dry lake is even longer...
gil in Tucson
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04-04-2007, 08:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, NV
Posts: 12,247
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Originally Posted by az_gila
I've also flown over Edwards when the area has been open.... is that a long runway!! 15,000 ft of pavement... and the runway marked on the dry lake is even longer...
gil in Tucson
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I dunno Gil, 15,000' goes by pretty fast when you cross the fence at 265 knots..... 
But try shooting an approach to one of our 15,000 x 300 runways in a light plane, and I bet you flare about 100 feet in the air - I did, until I got myself calibrated!
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04-04-2007, 10:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: NC25
Posts: 3,503
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Originally Posted by Ironflight
I dunno Gil, 15,000' goes by pretty fast when you cross the fence at 265 knots.....
But try shooting an approach to one of our 15,000 x 300 runways in a light plane, and I bet you flare about 100 feet in the air - I did, until I got myself calibrated! |
I landed to the east at EDW for the Open House 9 years ago. I got close to the runway at 60 KIAS and flew down it at less than ten feet. It felt like forever till I got to the turn off where I chopped power, set it down then taxied about a mile to the hangar they had for the display aircraft.
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