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Re: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields

To: Pat Kelly <lollipop487@attbi.com>, wm p kincy <pkincy@msn.com>,
Subject: Re: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
From: Lolita and Mike <lomike@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 22:22:32 -0700
on 6/3/02 21:56, Pat Kelly at lollipop487@attbi.com wrote:

> Picture this: Okay, Rick, you take the North Bay, and MJ, you start from San
> Jose. We'll fly circles until we're shot down for suspicious flying
> maneuvers. :)
> Hey, all we're looking for is a decent parking lot!! :)
> --Pat K
> 
> ----------
>> From: Lolita and Mike <lomike@earthlink.net>
>> To: WM P KINCY <pkincy@msn.com>, <joe@bea.com>, <lollipop487@attbi.com>,
> <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: Re: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
>> Date: Mon, Jun 3, 2002, 9:57 PM
>> 
> 
>> on 6/3/02 21:20, WM P KINCY at pkincy@msn.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes and it is way too small for an autox.  And there are very nasty
>>> elevation changes.  I know PCA has used it buy we could pave someone's back
>>> yard and do better.
>>> 
>>> One idea that I have always wanted to try is to get someone with a plane to
>>> donate some time and get in it on a Sunday (or Saturday) and fly around
>>> looking for empty paved lots.  Write them down and do a systematic
>>> contacting job of the owner/operator.
>>> 
>>> Perry
>>> "long ago scheduler dude"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----Original Message Follows----
>>> From: Joe <joe@bea.com>
>>> To: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>, Joe <joe@bea.com>,
>>> ba-autox@autox.team.net
>>> Subject: Re: Gravel at Golden Gate Fields
>>> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 10:40:55 -0700
>>> 
>>> At 10:28 AM 6/3/2002 -0700, Pat Kelly wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I realize the search for the perfect surface leads us away from
>>> the Bay
>>>>>> Area.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't necessarily agree...
>>>> So what is the perfect surface within the Bay Area? Don't say the Alameda
>>>> Naval Air Station, or Moffett...we can't find the right politician to talk
>>>> to. If you know him/her let us know.
>>> 
>>> My personal criteria are (in order) 1 - clean, 2 - near, 3 - large.
>>> For my tastes, Oakland and GGF are the best as long as they're
>>> clean. I have never had any bad feeling about the cleanliness of
>>> Oakland, so either they clean it well, or we do. I do like GGF, at least
>>> I have had no such bad experience as Saturday's.
>>> I know of no politicians... PCA often gets to use the police training
>>> facility near Dublin. Has anyone in SCCA tried to find entree there?
>>> 
>>>> --Pat K
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _________________________________________________________________
>> I have already donated the plane on a few occasions. Want to donate fuel and
>> help plot?
>> The really hard work is hunting down the appropriate person and CONVINCING
>> them they want us in their yard.
>> MJ
>> 
It's not quite that bad Pat, but your close. "THEY" call it loitering ( I,
as a pilot am still not quite sure how one is supposed to do that in a fixed
wing aircraft that requires forward motion to remain aloft) and it is
strictly verboten.
MJ

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