I come bearing gifts!
First, please join me in congratulating the newest IFR Pilot in the world, one Blindfolded Pat R., who scored his IR chops yesterday in Cessna 17J with DPE Mark D -- yep, at Chino. Way to go, Pat!
Pat has been practicing things like the SOGGE-1 arrival and the SPLASH-A approach lately. I am especially happy that we were able to get it done for Pat, despite the mess.
An extra Kudo to Elian for pulling out the stops to get this done.
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I have other news as well...
I received this tidbit in the mail this morning:
Today is Thursday, January 6th at 6:00 p.m. The present water level at the Prado dam is 514 ft. The airport will be open daily from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm for tenants and clean-up volunteers only. The runway will be open Friday, January 7th for departures and landings from 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Inspections of buildings, hangars and structures located on the airport are under way. At this time, Access Only - Yellow Tags have been approved for the following buildings: 1909, 1911, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1925, 1931, 1935, 1939, 1943, 1947, 1951, 1955, 1961 1963, 1967, 1965, 1969, and 1971.
This means... if the news holds, we will be retrieving our flythings today, and the weekend is game on, back to normal -- grab those bookings and let's fly! finally!
If for some reason the runway does NOT re-open, we will remain at Chino, but we will re-instate the schedule and open the planes for solo flights regardless. We will likely just staff an office person there fulltime.
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Rain or shine, we'll see ya this weekend!
Blue Skies,
- Mike
