Recent content by Jack Allison

Greetings Robert. Congrats on wanting to move forward to fulfill you dream of being a pilot. You'll never regret doing so. Thank you for your service to our country.

Probably a good thing Grant.

...but no margarita consumption for Jay. I'd prefer he remembers our conversations afterwards :-)

I bought a Vertex Standard ~10 years ago and it has performed flawlessly. I hear good things (and like) iCom as well. Something I do is have the headset adapter tied to my headset cord via velcro. That way, if the panel goes dark, I don't have to fish through my flight bag for the adapter.

Cool, congrats! Nice way to improve climb performance, eh? :-)

Congrats, looks nice.

Not counting your siblings or broken ones. Rather than go through the adoption hassles, you can simply buy me one instead :-)

Yup, mostly follow I-80. I think I cross it 10-15 times just on my way to Salt Lake City.

I'd prefer the Honeck family to adopt me and buy me one. You're up to, what, 3 of them now?

What's funny is this is pretty much the route I've taken from the Left Coast to Iowa City in my (metal) Arrow.

Count me in the 97%. Yawn...

Bleh...too bad re: new motel ownership. IIRC, there were a few other motel choices, not sure if any of them have courtesy cars at the airport though. Whiskey Creek...mmmmm. Made even better by the fact you can eat peanuts and toss the shells on the floor. Good stuff.

Sure thing. The motel was reasonably priced the last time I was there. Run by a husband/wife team and they do a buffet breakfast. There's also (at least as of a couple years back) a Mexican food place across the street. I recall Avgas being a tad pricier but the FBO service was good. Nice...

IMHO, it would be worth the $100 hamburger flight. Not sure about ground transport though. The times I've been there, we've been staying the night and the motel keeps a couple of cars at the FBO. Not sure if the FBO has a crew car or not. For us, it has been a place to stop for the night on...

Scottsbluff NE has a great steak house near a little Mom & Pop motel (The Candle Light inn maybe? Dunno, been a few years). No idea about trailer accommodations though as I've only flown in.