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  1. So riddle me this batman. How the heck do you actually get down to the field? I went there a couple of weeks ago and turned onto the "airport pkwy" and the street ended above the airstrip, at a big gate...

     

    So how do you actually get down on the field? Well, "I" land, as for any one else IDK. :p :D

     

    Edited to add: Since I am being nosey, what the max size plane that could possibly land there? (May need to contact my columbian dealer soon...) Tell em to bring it on, PC can handle it. :ph34r:

     

  2. **melts**

     

    I would give my right arm to go up in a private plane again. :blush: I've wanted to be a pilot my entire life. I work just outside of McCollum and watch planes come and go all day.

     

     

    Well why didn’t you speak up when I was looking for someone to go to Florida with me the last couple of trips? :rolleyes:

     

     

     

    Next time I plan on buzzing around the area I’ll send you a PM, flying is so much better when you can take someone who has never been or doesn’t get the chance to experience it often, especially in a non commercial aircraft.

     

     

     

    OH, and I’ll even let you keep both of your arms. :D

     

  3. Thanks for the pix. Great job.

     

    The wind turbulance at McCollum is always awful. That would have to be better at PC.

     

    I looked Friday to see if I could spot PC from the air, but I was too far north of it.

     

    That HUGE hole in the earth next to 27 is the culprit there. And yea it can make for a wild ride sometines.

  4. LOL! Great pictures! AND....I couldn't help but admire the instrument panel of the plane! Most of my flights have been in training planes ---- NOT the most updated....usually just happy they are actually functioning! ;)

     

     

    Oh don’t feel bad, we’ve all been there done that and keep going back. I aint knockin the new stuff but.... If it comes down to antiquated steam gauges or not flying at all I’ll take the steam gauges any day. Just remember, the first planes didn’t have any at all.

    One of my favorite planes I fly only has a tach, oil psi and turn and bank indicator. It makes you more “one” with the plane. :lol:

     

     

    Some of the planes I have flown would make a lot of folks cringe. :o :o

     

  5. That aint nuttin, Grady public clinic and trauma center has been paying a “consultant” 400k a year for the last three years.

     

    The funny part is that she running the “patient revenue department”.

    Grady???????????? Revenue??????????? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

     

     

    Personally I have less of a problem with the pastors salary than this “consultant” ripping off tax dollars.

     

     

     

     

     

    "Grady Memorial Hospital has paid a New England-based consultant $1,600 a day for nearly two years to run its patient revenue department, flying her into town and paying for her Atlanta apartment, transportation, meals and cable bills. Cheri Kane has been paid a total of $785,841 in fees and expenses from Grady since July 2007. Last year, the hospital paid her $378,400 in fees and $54,884 in expenses, for a total of $433,284, according to hospital records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution."

  6. True.....Makes me want to move thinking about all the growth

     

     

    I actually did,,,move, like to southwest KANSAS for four years, I did not come back to the metro area, I wound up in Florida, but I found myself homesick for the “south” after about 3.5 years of “nowhereville Kansas. I do miss it sometimes.

     

    But yea, I wouldn’t build/buy within several miles of the runway headings of that airport.

  7. Great pics!! I just don't see why the Politicians in Paulding think we really need an airport

     

    Thinking ahead, stick around you'll see.

     

     

    There were folks that wanted to close McCollum back in the 80s and almost succeeded in doing it, now look at it.

  8. Nice G1000's! What aircraft is that? I'm about to start working on getting my licence as soon as I get enough money saved up, and since im in college right now, it might take me a few years. I just love flying!

     

     

    Diamond star DA-40

     

    You shoulda been around a few weeks ago, I was looking for someone to go with me to a Fly in down in Florida.

     

    Fly in pix

     

     

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  9. I see from the approach pic that the rednecks have been out there cutting doughnts. <_<

     

     

    Either that or someone caught some funky wind, the way the terrain at that end of the runway slopes off (rather dramatically) it is going make for some interesting approaches.

  10. Ok, I can finally say I have landed full stop at KPUJ (Paulding County). When this thing takes off, (and it will) look out. It may be a while but it will rival Mc Collum.

     

     

     

     

    Departing RYY #2 for takeoff.

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  11. The Ant and the Grasshopper, revised edition

    The following is the Democratic "common good" version of the old favorite, the Ant and the Grasshopper:

     

    Remember the ant and the grasshopper?

     

    OLD VERSION . . .

     

    The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long.

    He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter.

     

    The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool.

    He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.

     

    Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm.

    The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

     

    The moral to the story being: BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF!

     

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    NEW VERSION . . . (sad but true)

     

    The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long.

    He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter.

     

    The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool.

    He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.

     

    Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm.

    The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and fed, while others are cold and starving!

     

    CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN show up to provide pictures of shivering grasshoppers, next to a video of an ant

    in his comfortable home, with a table filled with food.

     

    America is stunned by the sharp contrast! How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor

    grasshopper is allowed to suffer this way?

     

    Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah, with the grasshopper.

    Everyone cries when they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green".

     

    Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house, where the news stations film the group

    singing "We Shall Overcome".

    Jesse then has the group pray for the grasshopper's sake, and reminds the group to contribute to his group, so that he can "continue the fight" for grasshoppers, everywhere!

     

    Ted Kennedy & John Kerry exclaim, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, that the ant has gotten rich, off

    the back of the poor grasshopper!

    Both call for an immediate tax hike, to make the ant pay "his fair share"!

     

    Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity For Grasshoppers Act", retroactive to the beginning of the

    summer.

     

    The ant is fined for failing to hire the proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to

    pay his retroactive taxes, his house is confiscated by the government.

     

    Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper, in a defamation suit against the ant.

    The case is tried in federal court, with a jury comprised of unemployed welfare recipients.

     

    Surprise! The ant loses the case!

     

    The story ends, as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food, while the government house he lives in (which happens to be the ant's old house) crumbles around him,

    due to lack of maintenance!

     

    The ant has disappeared in the snow.

    The grasshopper is found, dead, in a drug-related incident.

    The house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders, who terrorize this once-peaceful neighborhood.

     

     

  12. Bobcats are pretty simple to operate. If your just removing grass and have trouble grading, just turn the buckett blade down and back drag it.

     

     

    That is an easy solution for an operator with little or no grading experience but has time on and basic knowledge of the machine. But to someone with no experience, what is backdraging? How do you make the bucket "float" (something needed to do when backdraging properly). The kind of work he is wanting done is not easy work for an unskilled operator, taking a thin layer off while maintaining the grade or putting it on a desired grade requires skills beyond being able to manipulate the machiene.

    I can teach someone to manipulate and push dirt or rock with a Cat D-8 or a 330 in 30 minutes, that doesn’t mean that they can go out and set up a pad or lay pipe.

     

    I am all for do it yourself projects and if someone wants to have some fun while trying their hand at something new, go for it. But if it is efficiency and results one is looking for, as far as this kind of work goes, it is best left to someone with experience.

     

    Whatever option you choose, do not forget to have underground utilities locator services performed. Remember call before you dig

  13. A bobcat is not an easy piece of equipment to operate, the main reason is with most bobcats the bucket is controlled with your feet. Anyone can get in one and with a little time learn to move it around, but getting the results you want, especially where fine grade work is being done,,, You just cannot learn this skill in a day. PM sent.

     

     

  14. ANY citation issued for ANY traffic code violation is at the SOLE discretion of the officer. [/

     

     

     

    Accident or not, an officer is not required to issue a citation. “who got the citation” is not the determining factor as to who is at fault. Officers do not “assign” fault. The accident report has an “order of contributing factors” space where the contributing factors are listed in order of relevance to the cause of the accident. So it is possible for no one to be issued a citation as a result of a traffic crash or all parties to be issued a citation. The insurance companies and courts will use the accident report and the “contributing factors” to assign fault or liability.

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