OregonMaule wrote:From your friends at JC

GroundLooper wrote:Are those 31's you have now? They look a lot bigger than the 29's you were sporting.

58Skylane wrote:

mountainmatt wrote:Good news, the President of the RAF, John McKenna, will be attending as a guest speaker during the Saturday night pot-luck. Please welcome him as he updates us with all the current RAF happenings and answers our questions.

Matt

and answers our questions.

Hey Matt. You may already know I will not be in attendance. But the one question I would ask is (and maybe it's not a question for the RAF?? I don't know). But..........

"How can the FAA AFD be updated to include using a modified approach/take off to avoid flying over the white house on the south end of runway 35?"

We all know you can safely stay east of the house if you need to land 35 or take off 17. I would think that if the AFD was updated with the proper wording and approach details, one would think that there should be lot less issues with JC. Then all of the other publications that use the FAA database can update their own database, then hopefully most all pilots going into/out of JC will know the correct operating procedures for that airport. I don't know. Does this make sense?

And as I'm typing this, I kind of remember that isn't there a BCP member or members here that work for the FAA and that would know how to get this info to the right department for consideration for updating to help JC be a safer airstrip for everybody? Or is it easier to sit and bitch and complain on the BCP.org and SC forum that maybe 75% of the other backcountry pilots don't even read? Or is it typical of some (not all) of these government workers with the attitude of "Not my dept, not going to worry about it!"

Sheesh...... Anyway. I was starting to go out into left field towards the end there.

I will address this as a concern during the questions with the IAA/RAF guest speakers. Thanks for you input Pat, wish you could make it this year.

Grassstrippilot wrote:Hey everyone,

We will be launching tomorrow morning around 8am, planning to be at JC by 11am.

Rob, you can help me out with some packing since space will be tight. I know it will change by tomorrow morning, but how far north past the out house do you have to go before there are any open campsites? How packed is the west side of the strip? Usually, we are there by now, but this year is different out of necessity. Anyway, we are just trying to figure if we will be camping on grass or dirt. I wish the state would put in a north cam at JC.

What kind of improvements did they do at Soldier Bar? That is good to hear. I swore I wouldn't go back until it was improved. It was starting to look like a prop strike in the making with the rutting down the center of the strip...a problem for us nosedraggers!

Greg, I'll be listening on 122.75 tomorrow morning. I'm out of KOGD. Sounds like you will be in the general area about the time we are getting airborne. I'll be in either 733 or 98N. What tail will you be in?

Fly safe everyone and we'll see you tomorrow. Can't wait!

emflys wrote:

Hottshot wrote:Ok I am headed in on Friday afternoon... If you need anything please let me know by the day before Friday.

Wup - I could use another set of 29"s. If its not too much trouble. I'm guarding your tent.

Geeze Rob, when I first saw that I thought someone cut open a pet dog. Had to look again.

Grassstrippilot wrote:Thanks Rob. I hate getting up there so late.

emflys wrote: