Flying into KAFF

[SkyHog]

I need to find a way to fly to KAFF. Short of enlisting, is there a secret way of getting PPR?

I have flown over and around it so many times, it’s like a beacon just screaming “land on me!”

 

[Dave Theisen]

Declare an emergency?

 

[ChrisK]

Join CAP, become a mission pilot, and conduct emergency services training flights involving CAP cadets at the USAFA cadet squadron in a CAP aircraft maybe?

Or just don't land there.

 

[murphey]

I need to find a way to fly to KAFF. Short of enlisting, is there a secret way of getting PPR?

I have flown over and around it so many times, it’s like a beacon just screaming “land on me!”

Even when I worked there it wasn't allowed. However, if you can join the employee flying club (not sure if it still exists, I left in 2006), the club bases and flies out of KAFF.

 

[murphey]

Join CAP, become a mission pilot, and conduct emergency services training flights involving CAP cadets at the USAFA cadet squadron in a CAP aircraft maybe?

Or just don't land there.

Probably not. Springs CAP bases at Peterson KCOS, not the Academy.

 

[ChrisK]

Probably not. Springs CAP bases at Peterson KCOS, not the Academy.

So much for that plan

Guess we are back to declaring.

 

[murphey]

So much for that plan

Guess we are back to declaring.

Odds are against you even declaring. KAFF to KCOS or KFLY is about 12 nm.

 

[ChrisK]

Odds are against you even declaring. KAFF to KCOS or KFLY is about 12 nm.

No one was seriously considering this.

 

[murphey]

Back in the day, someone tried to land at Buckley USAF, tower told him that Aurora Air Park was 4 nm away, go there, don't land here.

 

[Mtns2Skies]

You can land there whenever you want!... Once...