REFLECTOR: GA is Great

[Al Gietzen]

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.

My son recently went through a similar experience at the Denver airport.
Apparently it is SOP.

Al