September 30, 2018 - Brunch at Butter Valley Airport |
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A bunch of us from the Skypark were flying to breakfast/lunch this morning at Butter Valley Golf Port Airport (7N8) up in Pennsylvania. I've been there a couple of times but not in years. It is just five miles or so north of Pottstown. Here I am flying off Tom's Maule. It was an excellent day to fly: warm, sunny, light winds, good vis. |
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| Safe on deck at Butter Valley which might best be described as a golf course with a runway in the middle of it. And of course, every golf course has a 19th hole restaurant/bar so that's where we had brunch. That's Ron's C-152 to the left of my RV. | ||||||
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Walking past a green to the 19th hole.
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| Our destination: the Runway Grill at Butter Valley. | ||||||
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| After a delicious breakfast, we walked back to the grass ramp. When I first arrived overhead and saw all these planes on the ramp, I thought "man, this place is busy!" | ||||||
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| But it turns out that all the non-Essex Skypark planes were grass queens; i.e., just tied down and don't fly much, if ever. | ||||||
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Ron preflights with a fairway in the distance.
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| We had flown down in a loose gaggle but going back we all went at our own speeds. | ||||||
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| Here, I'm flying over the beautiful Pennsylvania countryside. | ||||||
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