AdamZ
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Adam Zucker
Well its 10:46 P.M. Monday eveing and I am sitting in my family room writing this on my laptop. As some are aware from my previous thread. I was supposed to fly from Wings to W96 Ocracoke for four days with my wife and another couple.
As luck would have it the weather SUCKED up and down the entire coast today and due to the stationary front that has been..... well stationary for a few days things won't improve much for the entire dang week. Warm moist air is acutally pushing west off the Atlantic inland ( over Ocracoke of course) pusing the front west and crating a mass of goo, clagg, rain , crapola over all of the 13 orginal colonies LOL. So the trip was scrubed due to weather. I was so much looking forward to getting away for 4 days now its back to the office. Sigh Safety First.
So here is the Silver lining and a bit of a plug if I may. We were supposed to stay at the Anchorage Inn and Marina in Ocracoke. They have a 3 day cancellation policy. I called the Inn this moring and spoke with Patty and told her we were socked in. She knew we were flying b/c her notes indicated we needed a pick up from the airport. She sympathised and said she hoped we could get out.
Our go/no go drop dead time was 1:00P.M. At 12:55 P.M. it was raining so hard I almost couldn't see out my window at the office. So I called Patty at the Anchorage told her to release our rooms. She said it was pouring there but was sunny earlier.
I was anxious as to wether I would hear "gee sorry you can't come but since you didn't give the 3 days notice of cancellation you loose some $$.
I asked her if there it we could use the reservation at a later date. Here was her response:
" ABSOLUTLY. I spoke with the owner of the Inn and told him you were a pilot and were flying in. He said no cancellation fee for these guys they are pilots. If they were'nt flying in it would be a different story but we understand that when your flying in you are at the mercy of the weather and we hope to see them reschedual"
You bet we're reschedualing. This is a business owner that IMHO has earned the business of myself and other pilots. I hear the Inn is nice but have never stayed there. However I'm not ashamed to give the Anchorage Inn and Marina a big ole Plug for thier pro pilot business practices." Patronize them if you can.
As luck would have it the weather SUCKED up and down the entire coast today and due to the stationary front that has been..... well stationary for a few days things won't improve much for the entire dang week. Warm moist air is acutally pushing west off the Atlantic inland ( over Ocracoke of course) pusing the front west and crating a mass of goo, clagg, rain , crapola over all of the 13 orginal colonies LOL. So the trip was scrubed due to weather. I was so much looking forward to getting away for 4 days now its back to the office. Sigh Safety First.
So here is the Silver lining and a bit of a plug if I may. We were supposed to stay at the Anchorage Inn and Marina in Ocracoke. They have a 3 day cancellation policy. I called the Inn this moring and spoke with Patty and told her we were socked in. She knew we were flying b/c her notes indicated we needed a pick up from the airport. She sympathised and said she hoped we could get out.
Our go/no go drop dead time was 1:00P.M. At 12:55 P.M. it was raining so hard I almost couldn't see out my window at the office. So I called Patty at the Anchorage told her to release our rooms. She said it was pouring there but was sunny earlier.
I was anxious as to wether I would hear "gee sorry you can't come but since you didn't give the 3 days notice of cancellation you loose some $$.
I asked her if there it we could use the reservation at a later date. Here was her response:
" ABSOLUTLY. I spoke with the owner of the Inn and told him you were a pilot and were flying in. He said no cancellation fee for these guys they are pilots. If they were'nt flying in it would be a different story but we understand that when your flying in you are at the mercy of the weather and we hope to see them reschedual"
You bet we're reschedualing. This is a business owner that IMHO has earned the business of myself and other pilots. I hear the Inn is nice but have never stayed there. However I'm not ashamed to give the Anchorage Inn and Marina a big ole Plug for thier pro pilot business practices." Patronize them if you can.
