Subtitle: Runway? We don't need no stinkin' runway...
The wife and I had planned to go to Sky Manor, NJ today for lunch. I got a briefing on the way to the airport and was told the runway was closed. I verified with the briefer that the NOTAM didn't say anything about the airport being closed. So after having a partner fly me to Smoketown in the R22 to get the R44, which was getting pinstriping done, I went back to N99 to pick up my wife.
We passed just south of Van Sant, then spotted N40. Soon we were on downwind having turned just abeam of the numbers on runway X, passed runway X's numbers at the other end, and did a landing to the ramp.
The joint was strangely quiet (that is, no air traffic), although the restaurant was doing a pretty good drive in business. The only aircraft which came in for lunch were us and a Rotorway.
Anyway, I departed parallel to 25 and was at about 100 AGL when a Cessna announced he was downwind for 25. Being a nice guy, I told him the runway was closed. Then another guy asks me to say again. Which I did. So here you have two pilots who obviously didn't get a briefing, plus, when I was doing a quick preflight, there was another a/c orbiting the airport. So maybe the count is three, not two
Anyway, it was a great day for flying...
Hah! Rotors rule!
The wife and I had planned to go to Sky Manor, NJ today for lunch. I got a briefing on the way to the airport and was told the runway was closed. I verified with the briefer that the NOTAM didn't say anything about the airport being closed. So after having a partner fly me to Smoketown in the R22 to get the R44, which was getting pinstriping done, I went back to N99 to pick up my wife.
We passed just south of Van Sant, then spotted N40. Soon we were on downwind having turned just abeam of the numbers on runway X, passed runway X's numbers at the other end, and did a landing to the ramp.
The joint was strangely quiet (that is, no air traffic), although the restaurant was doing a pretty good drive in business. The only aircraft which came in for lunch were us and a Rotorway.
Anyway, I departed parallel to 25 and was at about 100 AGL when a Cessna announced he was downwind for 25. Being a nice guy, I told him the runway was closed. Then another guy asks me to say again. Which I did. So here you have two pilots who obviously didn't get a briefing, plus, when I was doing a quick preflight, there was another a/c orbiting the airport. So maybe the count is three, not two
Anyway, it was a great day for flying...
Hah! Rotors rule!