Roger Lee Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 5th Annual 2011 Page, AZ. Fly-In Including Lake Powell, Monument Valley, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, St. George, Bullfrog Marina Resort... and more! Make those reservations now.. More people, more planes, different flight venue, bigger and better than last year! The Page, AZ. Fly-In date is October 13-16, 2011 We will fly the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, Monument Valley, Zion Canyon and breakfast at Bryce Canyon, Monument Valley, Bullfrog Marina and resort. We will also be adding St. George this year for breakfast and adding new routes. I managed to block off 45 rooms. We got a great rate of $49 same as last year. I hope to have a record number of CT's and LSA aircraft for our Page Fly-In. Just like last year make the reservations early so you don't miss out and the hotel won't hold all 45 rooms forever. Do not wait this year. Book it now and you can cancel up to 24 hours before Oct. 13th. Get it booked and reserved, then if you have to cancel you can, but if you wait again then you may not be staying with the rest of us and at your own peril for rates and possibly a different hotel. They book darn near the whole town in October. We have a special rate at the same place we stayed last year. Tell them you are with the "CT Group" or Roger Lee to cross reference and the rate is $49 a night. We will arrive Thursday morning, Oct. 13th. and head home Oct. 16th. Sunday or Monday morning. Breakfast is free in the mornings. I talked to the people at the Ranch House Grill and they will cater our evening meals again. We will have evening meals together Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Rose is our contact person. Best Western Arizona Inn 716 Rim View Dr. Page, Az. 800-826-2718 928-645-2466 The AZ. Inn has gone completely non-smoking! We will fly into the Page airport - KPGA. We are staying with Classic FBO and with our group we should get a 30 cent discount on fuel. Classic is not the first FBO next to the runway, but the second one behind them. The Antelope Canyon tour and the Dam tour is open if anyone wants. These are land tours. You guys are welcome to invite other planes that are not CT's and everyone is welcome. Find some more LSA's. I will develop GPS coordinates for all our routes and post them so you can enter them in your own GPS. I have a plan to better deal with all our planes for our flights so they are not crowded in the mornings or evenings. Don't miss this, we always have fun. p.s. I would like everyone coming to shoot me an email so I can put together a roster, make name tags and set up call signs like we did last year. If you attended last year and we had your personal info then just say you are coming. If you did not come last year then I would like the email to include: N#, Names of you and co-pilot, cell phone number, city, state. This is a big help for me to last year to organize our fly outs since we have so many planes and gives old friends and new friends a way to contact each other if need be. Here is a list that I will keep updated as people sign up for Page, AZ Fly-In. I have some names already and if you made reservations and didn't let me know please do. If you know anyone that wants to join us let them know and then me. I have 45 rooms reserved and right now we sit at 38 confirmed reserved. So we have 7 or less rooms left. I will call the hotel late Aug. as there are always a few reserved I don't hear about. Make sure you tell them your with the CT Group.Thanks,Roger Lee Reservations made: (and sent email to Roger) 1. Roger Lee 2. Bill Applegate 3. Mack Brame 4. Brian Carpenter 5. Bob Derloo 6. Larry Minch 7. Wayne Ferson 8. Tim Greer 9. Jim Hamilton 10. John Horn11. John Johnson 12. Jeremy McGregor 13.John Doman14. Bruce Sherman 15. Roger Evenson 6. Bill McCandless 17. Dick Johnson 18. Steve Schroder 19. Boris Rotman20. Ernie Bitten21. Ed DeJong 22. Mike Koerner24. Brett Gingery 25. Robert Lindsay 26. Philip Welsch27. Doug Gentzkow 28. Al Meyer29. Darrell Bice30. Russ Roberts31. Larry Clark32. Mike Evans33. Don England34. Bill Bertram35. Greg Copeland 36. Tom Lombardi 37. John Sullivan 38. Ken Knolde 39. Bob Hall 40. Mitch Stone 41. Bob Corey 42. Kurt Kuhlman 43. Larry Hamm 44. Joe Brozo 45. Larry Jefts 46. Kevin Klienfelter See You There. HAPPY TRAILS! ############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################ Page Fly-In Flight Info 5th Annual Page, AZFly-In Oct. 13-16 2011 Howdy All It’s Time Again!!!! Bring your cameras!! Here are the GPS coordinates for our different area flights. These aren'tetched in stone and you don't have to fly these if you don't want to, but theywill keep you from getting lost and take you right over the major flight pathswe will more or less follow. This year we will break up in groups and then eachgroup will take a different flight each morning. This will keep us from having40+ aircraft going into the same areas each flight. We will discuss thisfurther at the Thursday evening meal. We have the restaurant all to ourselvesagain (The Ranch House Grill) and dinners are catered. Breakfast is either thefree one at the hotel, out at the local restaurants or during one of yourflights at the local airport restaurant (best) as will lunch. The flights below are round trip in a large circle andthey can be shortened by quite a bit if you want to shorten the distance.Just in case bring three tie down ropes for when we are away from Page atother airports. Most have tie downs, but I know Monument Valley has a cable,but you will need your own rope. General info: Page, AZ Airport (KPGA) Runway 15-33 Freq.122.8 FBO: Classic @ 122.85 Kris 928-645-5356 Chat Freq. we can use for our own group and for separation of each flight groupwhile in different areas. These will be assigned each night at dinner for thefollowing day’s group flights. 123.45, 127.47, 127.45, 127.5, ect… Grand Canyon Flight Grand Canyon (see Grand Canyon VFR map) KPGA round trip is 193 miles 1.7 hrs. Route: KPGA south through Marble Canyon (monitor 120.05) climbing to 10.5K to enter Zuni Corridor @ N36 17.38 / W111 51.04 to exit @ N35 58.33 / W111 53.39.Turn west along south canyon rim climbing to 11.5K to Fossil Corridor. Switchand monitor 127.05. Turn north and enter Fossil Corridor at 11.5K @ N36 16.43 /W112 34.97. Exit Fossil Corridor @ N36 22.87 / W112.18.70 switch back to120.05. Proceed back to KPGA or tour along the Vermillion Cliff area then back to Page. Note* You aren’t really that high off the rim as it is approximately 7500’elevation. Monument Valley Flight Monument Valley Airport (UT25) Runway 16-34 You only land on 16 and take off on34 Freq. 122.9 Round trip approx. 185 miles 2 hrs. There is a restaurant and we will havebreakfast there on Friday and Saturday flights. A van will beavailable to take us up the hill or if you prefer a nice morning walk have atit. KPGA to approx. N37 01.003 / W110 12.020 to Mexican Hat @ N37 09.016 / W10951.541, then west to Lake Powell @ N37 17.535 / W 110 23.171 then south to KPGA This will give you only a general route and or you can and probably will zigzag around Monument Valley to take in all the sites. Flight altitude is up to you so long as you don’t run into a rock wall. (Only once) Bryce & Zion National Park Flight Bryce Airport (BCE) Freq. 122.8 Runway 03-21 272 miles 2.5 hrs. KPGA to BCE general area around the canyon sites then southwest to Zion Park general area @ N37 14.847 / W113 05.115. You can head back to KPGA at thispoint or head into St. George Airport (SGU) Runway 16-34 Freq. 122.8 forbreakfast then back to KPGA. We are going to have breakfast at Bryce Canyon Ruby’s Inn on Friday and Saturday. Lake Powell to Bullfrog Basin Resort Restaurant Flight Bullfrog is U07,N37.32.44.96 and W110.42.47.51, the elevation is 4167’, Unicom is 122.80. The runway is 3500’ x40’ and runways 1 - 19. AWOS at U96 (9nm se) 134.37 Follow Lake Powell up the channel northeast bound and head into the BullfrogBasin Resort restaurant for breakfast or lunch. The resort will come out the very short distance to pick you up. You can fly very low or high and it’s up toyou. I like low through the channel. There are some altitude, i.e. even and odds, they suggest you fly to stay with the flow with possible other traffic. Iwill have that info before we get to the Fly-In and have our pilot briefings. “Rainbow Bridge” scenic sight GPS coordinatesN37 04.37.39 / W110 57.53.06 Optional St. George breakfast flight ID is KDXZ, elevation2884’ Unicom 122.80, AWOS 135.07, Runways 1 – 19. Courtesy car available totown. The Antelope Canyon ground jeep tour will be available again and the tour of the dam. If you haven’t been then you should go. Dinner Thursday night at the Ranch House grillat 1700 hrs. We will have a little social hour before the meal (eat at 1800 hrs). This is only 2 blocks away up the street from the hotel. Dinner is there all three nights as it is a little hard to find a table for 80 at most restaurants. The restaurant is closed and only open to us. It is all inclusive, drinks, salad, two entree meal plus sides and desert. Seconds are good, too. Bring your own alcohol if you want wine or beer. All other drinks they supply. This is when we will decide on our daily flights and times out. 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Roger Fane Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 I'm reserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandpiper Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 I'm reserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrnflyr Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Do you all mind if I show up in my 182? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Garrett Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 As crazy as it sounds, I already have a vacation planned at the same time this event is for 2011 - but I'd like to be put on a notification list for the 2012 fly in. I'm pretty sure there's time to squeeze this in in 2012 before the world ends... ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted January 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hi John, You came the first time in a 182 so of course you can bring your 182 , but this time bring some spare parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S3flyer Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 My wife and I will be there in our Sting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Hi Dave, Glad to have you in your Sting. The more the merrier. Please do me a favor and shoot me an email with your info items as listed above so I can put you on the roster with a radio ID# and have name tags for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I just ran this by Karen, and it sounds vaguely doable. The AOPA flight planner shows it at about 15 hours from our home in N GA. It would be our longest trip yet (now its the FL Keys). I've flown into Bullfrog Basin in my Tiger many years ago. Lake Powell is beautiful, as is the surrounding country - Monument Valley below: Of course, you guys that live out there don't need to be told how nice it is! Let us think about this for a while before we commit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Hi Eddie, We have had guys come from FL, NY KY, ect.. We have had them fly in commercial from Canada and Germany. They come from all over to this Fly-In. Not only is the scenery like none other, but we a fun group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS Bruce Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 We're reserved this year! Bruce & Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrnflyr Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 Aero news is reporting the National Park Service is going to change the rules again. Here is the location of the article: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=6a83e7c4-88c8-4f74-b08f-f5aa45019a10& Notice that there are NO changes proposed for the GA corridors. That's good news. John PS. Will get my reservation next week and will make sure my starter is working this time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT4ME Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 If the Park Service were truly concerned about "noise", then they should allow quiet planes like ours more access, not less! Our little Rotax birds don't even compare to the noise generated by helicopters and most older GA aircraft (and tourist haulers). If they want to be fair, lets get a decibel meter out and measure the noise at cruise from 2,000 ft... and make regulations based on those findings. Tim ps: the more I think about it, the more I like that idea... the public input portion of the proposed new regulations is now open... those of us with quieter airplanes should demand that the noise level of our planes be taken into consideration. Here is a link to website where you can see the rules and comment. Imagine how quiet the new "electric" planes will be. Propose new rules regarding Grand Canyon Overflights (click on "comment on documents" near the top) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S3flyer Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 I just ran this by Karen, and it sounds vaguely doable. The AOPA flight planner shows it at about 15 hours from our home in N GA. It would be our longest trip yet (now its the FL Keys). I've flown into Bullfrog Basin in my Tiger many years ago. Lake Powell is beautiful, as is the surrounding country - Monument Valley below: Of course, you guys that live out there don't need to be told how nice it is! Let us think about this for a while before we commit. Hi Eddie, You're welcome to stay at my place in north Dallas if you want to break the flight up into multiple days. It's around 775nm from T31 via ABQ and Gallup into Page. We haven't decided if we're going to do one long day or two really easy ones (and site see along the way). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted February 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Hi Tim, Unfortunately for our planes it won't be a noise issue, but that we are not in the tour operations business. The new regulations are not affecting the GA corridors, but the tour operators. We don't fly at that altitude nor will we ever be permitted to fly interactively with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT4ME Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Agreed... I understand that most of the changes affect tours... not GA. There will be some changes that affect GA (Marble Canyon and the minimum non-controlled altitude). The point is, if they are controlling NOISE, it should be based on the amount of noise created. My dissatisfaction with the Canyon has never been noise... it's that dang brown haze - air pollution! PS... my Page Fly-in reservations are booked. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted February 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Hi Tim, I may have been a little presumptuous, but I had already put you down as a "I'll be there". We are certainly getting a number of people sending me emails already making their reservations. Some new people this year, too. What's taking the rest of you so long to make reservations. This is one of the best get together's ever. If we could harness the laughs, fun and excitement of flying 100' off the deck down Lake Powell we could easily power an electric plane around the world. p.s. Let me know when you would like to come down for breakfast to take care of the couple of items. Rog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammer Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hey Roger, Barbara and I will be coming again this year. We are looking forward to it and this year I am planning on turning my master switch off EVERY evening instead of most evenings !! :-) Jim Hamilton N208CT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted February 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hi John, (Patrnflyr) What is the "N" number on your plane you are bringing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrnflyr Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 N2172W. 2007 Cessna T182T. I need to change out my avatar. Sorry, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAYLOR ALLEGRO Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Roger, Of course I will be there. Maybe with my son Evan or may bring my wife Denise. Or Both!!! Evan is so close he can drive.. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted February 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hi All, We are already starting to get a fair number of people letting me know they are coming to Page this year. Keep them coming. The earlier the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdeurloo Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Roger, I made reservations today for Friday and Saturday night. Bob Deurloo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentuckynet Posted February 27, 2011 Report Share Posted February 27, 2011 Roger "ACE Harware" Lee Vicki and mack brame will be there provided we dont get drawn for elk hunting in arizona! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted February 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2011 Hi Mack, It's been a while. That's "Ace Aviation"! I'll put you down on the list. Thanks, Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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