REFLECTOR: GA is Great

[Robin Ream]

Even those of us who live in Texas would agree with you Chuck, DFW is one of
those handful of airports from Hell...  Most people who have any experience
with that place try to find a flight that DOES  NOT  go through there, even
if it costs more :-)

Robin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Jensen" <cjensen at dts9000.com>
To: "'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: REFLECTOR: GA is Great


> I just got back from a week in SLC.  It killed me not to be able to fly
it,
> but my plane is still down for an injection of avionics steroids.  Seeing
> crystal blue skies and all those big pointy rocks, it was hard not being
up
> there amongst both.
>
> Instead, I had to rely on that most pedestrian of travel modes; commercial
> aviation.  On the return, I connected thru DFW and found comedy is still
> alive.  As I was setting in the terminal waiting for the connecting
flight,
> an announcement came over the PA that the all the airport ramps were being
> shutdown.  I immediately thought PLANE CRASH, TERRORIST ATTACK,
> TSUNAMI...not.  It was a single bolt of lightening 5-6 miles away that an
> ever so sharp eyed ramp worker spotted.  Really!!!  I'm not making this
up.
>
> The day was 12005KT OVC040 10SM VFR except for one ever-so-little rain
> shower off on the horizon that had emitted one ever-so-little lightening
> bolt.  With that, all the ramp workers stopped work (including 1/2 way
thru
> the push back of one loaded jet) and went inside to escape this life
> threatening weather.  During this vicious frontal weather attack, nary a
> gust of wind, rain drop or a second lightening bolt was observed.  About
an
> hour and a half later, the card game broke up and they went back to
> work....in the same benign weather conditions as before.  During that
time,
> nine incoming planes sat on the ramp for at least an hour, because there
> were no open gates.  When we finally taxied out, we were number 19 for
> departure on 17.
>
> It's too bad we can't outsource DFW ramp jobs to India.  And yes, I could
> have flown a 180kt recip from Salt Lake to Knoxville and beat the 450kt
jet
> aircraft by a few hours.  God is great and GA is pretty good too.
>
> Chuck
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