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Old 01-24-2006, 11:36 PM
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I would agree, Fabs...up to a point. I have considered driving one of my small trucks and finding a spot at the airport to leave it so I have transportation to my club once I get there. There is one important limiting factor....at least to my personal limitations when flying and that's the weather. When the weather is excellent for duck hunting it's almost always very bad for General Aviation aircraft.

I was up at my club over the Christmas - New Years week and my buddy was going to fly up to hunt with me for a day or two but we had severe thunderstorms, tornado warnings (imagine that in Californee!) and sustained winds at 45 knots with gusts to 60! That was on and off all week long so there were only a few very limited windows to get in and out. That kind of stuff really leads to "get there-itis" which lures pilots into making marginal decisions and possibly trouble. In my case it would be a go, no-go decision and that just leaves me with very little drive time to make it after all. Sometimes it's just safer and even faster to drive!
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