A Change of Place... and pace

[Jon]

So, I only flew two charters this week. It's been an especially slow time for me, ever since I volunteered for on-call night shifts. With such a sluggish schedule, I thought I might pay my first visit to Darby's.

I managed to fly a smooth approach, with an embarassingly harsh landing. The 172 just wasn't responding that day.

After tying up the plane, I left the lot and wen't on over the propane tank. No key.

Where is the key? I know someone absent-mindedly placed it somewhere. I just need to know where.

(What airport is Darby's at anyways?)

[Rick]

:rolleyes:

Darby's shack sits on Lake Berryessa, east of Sacramento. If your landing was embarassingly harsh, that's why. Darby hasn't got around to paving the lake yet...

I think someone's got some scenery for it, somewhere. And the key should be under the tank on the porch. The house specialty is a banana daiquiri...

[Captain Geoff]

If you go to the McLean Research link on the links page - click on the PGA button at the top of the page that comes up it'll take you to the database.

In the form in the center of the page type in CA for the state and click the search button. A list of files will appear. Darby's is about 3/4 of the way down -it's a "field" without an ID. Unfortunately, I've not been to Darby's in a while so it's a fs2002 FSSE file.

If you want to make a new one for 2004 go for it. You can use the old one as an example if you have 2002. I wish that Lago would make a converter for the files. I put a lot of work into 2002 files and now they are all obsolete. :grr:

[Captain Geoff]

Oh, and someone - Darby, I'm sure has the files for FU II/III - that's where it originally came from and who made it!

[The Boss]

It was Captain Bazza who made the original, and I have the files as well.

[jimeklund]

:rolleyes:

Darby's shack sits on Lake Berryessa, east of Sacramento.

You'll have to fly east of Sacramento for several days if not weeks to find Lake Berryessa. :-D

Try flying west for a few miles first. You may run into it a ways past University Airport....

[Rick]

You'll have to fly east of Sacramento for several days if not weeks to find Lake Berryessa. :-D

Try flying west for a few miles first. You may run into it a ways past University Airport....

:doh:


Thanks, Avo. Nice of you to drop by...and catch my faux pas . Makes you wonder how I passed my checkrides, doesn't it?

[Bonez]

Checkride???
Who gave you a checkride?

All I got was a here's the keys, there's the plane, it has to be over there (pointed finger navigation tools employed at this point) in 20 mins, so you better get moving

[DLM]

Darbys shack have always been a refugee for me.
There´s nothing like sitting on the dock a late evening after a rough day in the skies with a cold banana beverage in one hand and a fishing rod in the other.

Ahhh memories...

By the way, who says you can´t get there in a C172 ?? The only problem is to get airborne again :-D

[Captain Geoff]

And every plane is a submarine..... once :rofl:

[The Boss]

And every plane is a submarine..... once :rofl:

Uh, Geoff... EVERY plane? Is there maybe something you haven't told me? :worry:

[Captain Geoff]

Blub

gurgle

fizz

boink

:help:

What goes up *must* come down. But what goes down doesn't necessarily come back up

In a plane the number of landings *must* equal the number of takeoffs.

In a submarine the number of surfacings does not have to equal the number of dives.

and the final corrolary: every ship can be a submarine once. However, once a submarine it is very unlikely it will ever get a chance to be a ship again.

:crazy:

[Cherry Pneumatic]

Though I've never done that to a plane, there was a really interesting (and true) moment with my mother's Monte Carlo when I was a teenager. See, at first it was a ship...I believe I said something like, "Holy #%$*! This thing is floating!"
Then came the submarine part..."Oh, crap."
The fact that I'm still breathing is in direct correlation to her patience. Or, corollary: If it can't float or dive and resurface, then keep it the $%#* away from the water.

[Mac The Wrench]

I think Darby's Fishing Shack is as much a state of mind as a place, and you can only find it by going to sunny Sacremento, having a drink with an umbrella in it, then, after getting a good nights rest, head west. If your head is right, so will your heading be... Once you've been, then you can always go back. For fun, skip the floats and try a high speed glassy water landing (gentle descent) on skis and beach it at the end without flipping over. Great fun.

8-)

[The Boss]

For fun, skip the floats and try a high speed glassy water landing (gentle descent) on skis and beach it at the end without flipping over. Great fun.

8-)

If you're really good, you can do that with a Cub on tundra tires. Remember that Northern Pilot issue a few years back with the hydroplaning Cub on the cover and the article on how to do it inside? Nuttier than a fruitcake, but still pretty cool. 8-)