I just saw a friend and fellow BCPer's post on Facebook about flying into the Burn earlier today, so for shits and grins I looked up this year's procedures for the playa.

All I can say is... Wow! An armed F16 escort for busting Washington DC airspace looks a whole lot more inviting than this bunch.

http://airport.burningman.org/advisory/

Gump

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You made me curious - Dammit. Spent near two hours and did not finish. Got either too discouraged or too disgusted - hard to tell. Sure looks like they are working towards their own Air Carrier monopoly in the long run.

Going to call a friend who has a shop at RHV and used to do a lot of stuff with BM and the Airport specifically. I once stripped down an old C-310 once so he could make an ART CAR out of it.
He was always after me to tag along but I gave up on HOT environments.

Once helped a young lady retrieve her plane from another Bay Area location and parked it at my fiends batch of tie-downs. He comes over to meet her and the first thing he says when the door opens was, "This thing has been to Burning Man huh!" Extremely fine dust (powder) seeps into every seam.

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CC

yeah i started to read pilot regs and came across requirement to be seen by "customs" WTF .... who goes to that shit hole anyway....they just fuck up the landscape......

Looks like a big thick extra layer of government found its way into that 'culture of radical self reliance.'

Gotta love the miles of junk/trash/garbage that are strung along the Nevada highways when they leave too.

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c170pete wrote:Looks like a big thick extra layer of government found its way into that 'culture of radical self reliance.'

+1 The "BxA" charters are thick at my home drome this weekend. It's fun to see all of the Grand Caravans, and there was a Kodiak, too. I like the desert, and I would have been interested in checking out burning man 20 years ago, just to see some craziness and free spirits. Not now. I'd rather go to Baja. I don't have to buy a ticket to the event to go there, and there's nothing contrived about the adventure. Diffrent Strokes . . . .

CAVU

Beginning to wish that I had had the courage to gamble on leaving in the deleted seventy or so percent of my original, spontaneous vindictive post on the rapacious nature of the BM addendum to almost all other forms and formats of encircling government intrusions. Looks like I would not have been alone. Chris C

To each their own. I've met an astoundingly diverse assortment of people who love burning man...redneck ranchers to combat veterans. It's pretty easy to make fun of, but I'd guess there is some real substance to it, and it doesn't last long.

Personally I'd rather suck-start a shotgun than spend a week in what looks to me like something from one of Cormac McCarthy's worst nightmares, but I feel pretty similar about fly-ins. I'm just not geared towards group activities, but I don't care if other people are.

Hammer wrote:Personally I'd rather suck-start a shotgun...

I need to write these down and publish a book, "Quips from Hammer"

It's almost like it's a cross-section of actual society.

I think it jumped the shark years ago, but the 2 years I went were kinda fun for the spectacle. And by that I mean the boobs.

Looks like a TFR should be in order Foreflight lists BLM as owner, but Terry Schoop in San Francisco as Manager?
more info for you Gump for your flight in.
https://www.nevadadot.com/About_NDOT/ND ... rport.aspx

I wasn't much interested in going before reading the "procedures", but after reading about half of it, I definitely have no interest. I love camping, with my airplane or with my pickup, and I've camped in the high desert, but this just sounds like it's gone from a free-for-all setting to way too much restriction. No thanks.

Cary

Zzz wrote:It's almost like it's a cross-section of actual society.

Interesting. The ones waiting for their BxA 135 charter looked like the sample from Goldman Sachs 5th Avenue with backpacks. So we've got that part covered.

CAVU

here in Winnemucca we’ve had quite a bit of “Burning Man Bound” traffic...including a guy today in what appeared to be a new Turbo Cirrus...I can’t imagine taking that to BM.....

He had a dead starter....was trying to get it cranked to get in there...wonder how he thought he’d get out????


Several others, including a couple in a 172 that both taxied, and acted, like they had already started to participate in the pharmaceuticals....


Ought to be interesting...

Sounds like acid head has NOT read much of the Black Jack Pershing County BM - BS manifesto.
Might want to peruse the next AIM or news of any Notices of Proposed Rule Making.
Project Creep? Old flying repair adage: "Well--- while were at it, we might as well.!."


Chris C

whee wrote:

Hammer wrote:Personally I'd rather suck-start a shotgun...

I need to write these down and publish a book, "Quips from Hammer"

Yeah, that one made me chuckle too. Witty bits aside, he pretty much summed up my take on the whole thing. Generally, I'd sooner see a grizzly than another person.

Hammer wrote:Personally I'd rather suck-start a shotgun ...

Dammit, Hammer! That hurt! I was sipping coffee when I read that line! Ever felt hot coffee snorting out of your nose! Man, that was funny!

The huge number of private jets currently parked at RNO tell me everything I need to know about the modern day version of this gathering of "free spirits".