Air Facts

JULY 14, 2025

Usually this particular huge oak tree is not a factor, since it doesn’t move much, and in fact is not NOTAMed or on the airport’s ODP, since no one would be dumb enough to fly into it, much less taxi right into it. Again with the engine-shutdown parking, this time very close to a hangar. Again, the walkaround didn’t catch it, true.

Lift

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A NOTAM closing Alton Bay was still active until 7:00 am that morning. As expected, the NOTAM closing the ice runway did expire and no new notification replaced it. Weather conditions on Groundhog Day were better than the week prior, characterized by a high ceiling and no thin screen of clouds hiding the ground from view.

Runway

Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I checked the hangar and had no bulb in my parts cabinet. I called the clearance delivery number on the OXB NOTAM but they gave me another number to call. I called the clearance delivery number on the OXB NOTAM but they gave me another number to call. a gallon, then secured hangar space for, you best sit down, $100 a night.

Clearance

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado. Everything checks out, and you are one happy camper!

Density Altitude

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Behind me, the other Cherokee (a Cherokee Six) landed and aggressively made for the main commercial hangar building. Though I am no geologist, I found myself biting my tongue whenever the tour guide -- who otherwise did a fine job -- referred to the ceiling-bound mineral formations as "stalagtites".

Runway