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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Sep 11, 2004
Description:
Airport, airport, where could you be...
Col Gracy and I rode with our buddy Steve in the Lake Bucaneer over to Rhinebeck for the Mid-Hudson large-scale vintage RC meet.
We left at 7am from RI and it was clear as a bell untill we approached the Hudson River. It is nestled up under this fog bank and its edges stretched over to right about where the gps was saying where Sky Park airport was.
Center - we circled and hunted and bingo! There it was, half under, half out of the fog bank.
Flying a standard right hand pattern put us over the fog and we kept losing the airport. Flying a left hand pattern did the trick.
It was a fun puzzle solved with a lot of chatter by the three pilot's in the Bucaneer.
Bottom - paydirt! Clear and on final at Sky Park. Yo know is an odd thing when you hear yourself suggesting that 'someday should mow that runway'... and the runway in question is paved!
Date Taken:
Sep 11, 2004
Place Taken:
Red Hook, NY
Owner:
Bret
File Name:
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21, Bret
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Dan Nickens - Sep 12,2004
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Uh, what? A 'standard' right hand pattern? Are you sure Steve wasn't flying inverted? Sky Park uses 'standard' left hand patterns for both runways (or at least it used to when it was in the real world).
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Bret Smith - Sep 12,2004
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oops backwards... Standard LEFT put us over the fog. non-standard right gave us what we needed. But maybe we were inverted after all, it was the Twilight Zone.<br /><br />This place would be a dream purchase. Runway already there and a road and power. A good hanger that only needs some TLC. Problem is, its right next to a country club and new sub divisions from commuting New Yorkers. Its probably closed because of pressure from the rich non-flyers who 'don't like airplane noise'.<br /><br />It looked like a place with lots of stories that will soon be covered over by vinyl siding...
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