Big Bend Ranch State Park Semi-Irregular Fly-In Scheduled

[zilik]

Originally Posted by Louise Hose

Glad to hear you folks made it down. Did all four planes go all the way down?

We'll miss the lasagna (and always like Victor's green chicken enchiladas!). But, the brisket sounds great. We hope to be in about 10 or 11 tomorrow morning.

Now, back to the movie......

Louise,

The 4 tagged along as far as Pueblo as our Saturday Morning Breakfast Run Gang. After breakfast we headed south, they headed north back to FTG

See you tomorrow. We just checked out your bedroom, nice!

[Ironflight]

Louise and I landed about 0950 this morning here at BBRSP after fighting headwinds of 40+knots all the way from Houston. Stopped at Terrell County for fuel as we just weren't going to make it to Alpine with decent reserves. great to see a few others here, and it looks like we'll have a nice stay.

Now, will the winds swing around before we head back tomorrow? Probably....

[westexflyboy]

I am terribly disappointed that I have not been able to make it out to the Ranch this trip. Last Thursday I was attacked by an AD (that's Airport Dog) in Marfa. The wound on my inner thigh resembles a gunshot, and consequently I have not been able to stay on my feet for prolonged periods yet. Today was better, but I'll be at least another few days before I'm sort of back to normal.

Perhaps since some couldn't make it this trip because of weather, a "mulligan" in a month or so will be possible? We'll be well into our two RV-10 QuickBuild kits by then, and would love to have any of you drop in on your way to or from the State Park.

Chase Snodgrass
Presidio, TX
http://flybigbend.com

[Ironflight]

Chase - sounds like you made a tough but good decision - we had a nice turnout actually - I need to count again, but we might have had as many people as last year - and with the other groups there, the bunkhouse was full!

I just got home after dropping Louise off for her commercial flight back east, and will try and write up the weekend when I get a chance to dig out.

Overall, a great trip, great people, beautiful weather (once we got out there) and a spectacular Shuttle/ISS pass on Sunday night!

Paul

[zilik]

We landed FTG after 4+42 flight time from BBRSP. We had a wonderful weekend and met some great new people.

[scard]

Tanya and I landed back in Austin (GTU) with only 2hrs of flight time from Big Bend. Wow, tail winds are awsome. Ok, I'm new . That was a lot of fun. Those people that are planning on camping out there are crazy.
Upon landing back home, the tower "suggested" that I call them when I got a chance. They knew where we had been since Tanya delivered carmel candies the morning we left. Turns out that US Customs must have tracked us back all the way back and called the tower as we were on short final to get our tail numbers! What the... No way did we ever come closer than about 15mi. to the border. I'm betting that customs tracked us all back home that launched out of there this morning. Our tower guys are just super cool and well stocked with cookies to give me a heads up. No call from Customs yet.

[n5lp]

Originally Posted by scard

...Upon landing back home, the tower "suggested" that I call them when I got a chance. They knew where we had been since Tanya delivered carmel candies the morning we left. Turns out that US Customs must have tracked us back all the way back and called the tower as we were on short final to get our tail numbers!...

Scott, please keep us informed if anything happens. I find this pretty disturbing.

[Ironflight]

I guess I'm glad that we popped chaff and then landed at Kestrel for fuel (to let the trail go cold) before heading back to Houston.....

Maybe Chase can testify in your favor?!

Hope that's the last you hear of it Scott - there shouldn't be a thing wrong with flying on this side of the border...

Paul

[the_other_dougreeves]

Originally Posted by scard

Upon landing back home, the tower "suggested" that I call them when I got a chance. They knew where we had been since Tanya delivered carmel candies the morning we left. Turns out that US Customs must have tracked us back all the way back and called the tower as we were on short final to get our tail numbers! What the...

Serious? WT* indeed. That's whacky.

Hmmm .... maybe something turned up in those candies ....

TODR

[scard]

Yeah, I am super appreciative of our tower guys giving a heads up, but pretty annoyed at the real expense that must be involved to track an RV completely across this big state with personal followup with a phone call to the tower to get my tail numbers. All with me departing from a location where we ate and drank with a bunch of state park rangers the whole time on the ground . And why couldn't they just pick my tail numbers off of my mode S, like Paul and I were talking about the evening before?
I have carefully considered that these comments are "out there", but the more I think about it, the more annoyed I am. I'm guessing that I won't hear anything more of it, and wouldn't even have been aware if not for the special (caramel and cookie) relationship that has been cultivated by Tanya.