small airfields

[jankees]

small airfields are always fun, here's a visit to the altiport of la Motte Chalancon, just north of Mt Ventoux.

It's a small strip with two hangars in the French Alps, from which I have flown in real life, great fun! Not with a twin otter though...

 

jk2183 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk2193 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk2199 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk2204 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk2206 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk2208 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

jk2210 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[peer01]

What a nice pics JK, makes me want to be there...:cool::cool::cool:

[pugilist2]

Always fun to land on the small strips! Nice set.

[Rupert]

Great shots JK! They remind me of when I first discovered flying. (1954)

 

I was staying with an aunt and uncle whilst my dad was having cancer treatment. (He died about six months later.) We four kids were farmed out amongst our grandparents, and our aunts and uncles. My stay was in a house on a little gravel road, in what as it had running water and a telephone in the house, I considered living in the city. At the end of this road was a GA airport.

 

After riding a bike to the airport and watching the planes fly over, I finally convinced my uncle to take me inside the fence where he introduced me to a GA pilot who was a customer in his bakery. On about my third trip back after that, that guy was there again and asked me if I'd like to take a "ride!!"

 

The little town was Shelby City Kentucky and the airport, which still exists, is now called DVK or Danville Airport. The one runway back then was what is now called 1-19 and has been expanded to 1,971' long. I'm told that when I first "flew" there it was about 1,500' Not knowing better at that time, I considered that runway huge!

 

So off he we flew in his Piper Cub for a few Touch and Goes!! I even had my own cockpit!! Even then I was pretty sure I'd somehow find a way to get my license someday.

 

Michael

Edited February 6, 2022 by Rupert