Dave, as soon as I made my comment, I was regretting and waiting for the phone number... but it had not been terribly busy on frequency, and Regional App usually tend to be pretty chilled.
As for how I knew it was you, (1) Bellanca - not terribly common; (2) Tail number "rang" familiar; (3) Voice; and (4) TW had told me you were in the area.
I had a crowd (including a Houston Rita-refugee family) in the A36, headed for Granbury (GDJ) for supper. Great time, but then...
...headed back to the GDJ airport, I called the ADS ATIS on the phone, a perfectly normal ATIS message, up to the last item: "Notice to airmen: Runway one five- three three closed until further notice." Bein' as how that's the only runway they have there, it presented what I would call a "problem." I worked it out that I would just fly to Love, borrow the crew car from Dalfort, drive to teh house and drop off all the boys and wives for bed, drive to ADS to collect the car, drive back to DAL to drop off the crew car, drive home, drive back to DAL in the morning to fly the airplane back to ADS (while Mikey drives to ADS to collect me).
Luckily, about five miles out from Love, the controller tells someone that ADS just reopened, and I (along with about six other folks on frequency) immediately chimed up for a quick change to ADS. Since over Love is almost an extended final for 33 at ADS, we were back home in no time flat.
Great what you can do with an airplane.
And really cool to be a part of a crowd that, when I hear one of their voices on the radio, it can make me grin.
