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Is Your Airport Aviation Friendly? As many of you know we recently moved to Lakeland, Florida. The move has been a tremendous boost to our business and to this podcast. We really love being in Lakeland and close to the many aviation venues and events in Central Florida.
Since I am between airplanes I decided to try and find somewhere local where I can hang out, rent planes, join a flying club or simply hanger fly. The logical place to start is the airport with a runway only a 2 miles from my house. Walking out my front door, I looked skyward as the drone of an airplane became louder then flew by towards my destination for the day. This is when I got excited.
Memories danced through my head of my childhood local airport. Perched next to the runway, my fingers entwined in the chain linked fence, I looked in awe of at the flying machines. Similar to this day at the airport my fingers clenched the chain link fence, but in a disappointed and somewhat desperate grip. I had discovered I moved next to an airport that was not what I envisioned as a general aviation friendly airport.
Maybe I was expecting too much. Maybe I should have done more research. Maybe I needed to find a new friendlier Airport. But that led me to thinking about my dilemma and I thought I would ask our co hosts and you if I am being too tough on my local airport. Also what is a general aviation airport?
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News And Announcements:
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Cruise Flight:
What is a General Aviation Friendly Airport?
- Places to enjoy watching planes with like minded people.
- Easy to use soda machine.
- A place to rent an airplane.
- Events for the small plane pilot.
- Sunsets on (or near) the runway.
- Learn to fly a plane.
- Ease of access and friendly people to greet us.
- Welcoming community of aviators.
- Place for aviators to exchange ideas
- Movie night
- Aircraft manufacturers park airplanes and put on seminar
- Jeopardy
- Paper airplane building contest
- How about the venue and type airport
- The people working at the airport
- Lake wales example.
- Hanger cook outs
- What makes your airport special?
After Landing Checklist:
Picks Of The Week:
Carl – PolkStateFlightTeam.com
Victoria – balloon insurance www.air-pros.com/lta
Tom – Florida Aviation Directory http://www.fdot.gov/aviation/directory.shtm
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Teaching Skills or Creating Aviators? While reading an aviation magazine I read a statement from the editor that “Flight training is great for teaching skills, but it’s terrible for making pilots”. This started a thought process in my head and made me realize that in many cases he was correct.