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flyforfun said:
Well I guess the rumor I heard was incorrect then. Someone who use to work at Watercolor had informed me that there had been numerous complaints about the language used in previous flicks, and were asked to clean things up. Which I think is good since WC is the Worlds #1 Family Resort. I guess this years flicks did not seem as funny and colorful as years past. Since my little bird can only fly up to 14,000 feet , I am not sure I can navigate around all those higher mountain passes with out flying into one. Mountain flying in a small plane takes a lot of experience, something you don't get just flying around Florida and lower Alabama. I do know small planes do land there, but the weather conditions have to be really good and one has to have really good knowledge of the mountain passes. So we would have to go on one of the big birds. Maybe we should get a group of folks together and go to the big show next year? :idontno:
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flyforfun said:
So we would have to go on one of the big birds. Maybe we should get a group of folks together and go to the big show next year? :idontno:
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Aha! Mystery solved. Now we know where BeachBumette gets her compulsive urge to plan parties... :roll:
 
flyforfun said:
What do you mean too southern? My grand-ma from NY taught me how to do that when I was kid with my neighbors cat! :rolling:
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Maybe I need to check the food a little more closely next time I eat at your place!!!:clap_1: :clap_1:
 
flyforfun said:
Well I guess the rumor I heard was incorrect then. Someone who use to work at Watercolor had informed me that there had been numerous complaints about the language used in previous flicks, and were asked to clean things up...

...I guess this years flicks did not seem as funny and colorful as years past...

...Since my little bird can only fly up to 14,000 feet , I am not sure I can navigate around all those higher mountain passes with out flying into one. Mountain flying in a small plane takes a lot of experience, something you don't get just flying around Florida and lower Alabama...
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- Well, your friend was indeed incorrect. Language has never been an issue between Mountainfilm and Watercolor, clearcutting and uncontrolled forrestry have. We showed a clearcutting movie during the second Mountainfilm, and they walked in during the middle of the film, not hearing Jim's introduction, saying this is what no one wants to see, and that St. Joe has been hailed as a logging/paper company who is trying to make a difference. They obviously took exception to the images on the screen, but once things were explained, regarding the intro, they got it. We did invite them to a screening one year, but no one really seemed interested, so we haven't wanted to go to the trouble since, since it's work to set up a room as compared to screening them at our homes.

- Mountainfilm is not always rosy and funny. As I mentioned before, a goal is to get you to think, and squirm a little, and hopefully to get people to take action and make a difference out there in the wide world.

- here is all you need to know about
TEX they have a t-shirt at the FBO that says 9078ft some fly there, some land there. the markers are wide open, and no mtns anywhere near the runway, except the one you land on. I need to be there the Tuesday before the festival. Let me know. Even MTJ would work.

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Well John, you certainly have peeked my interest with this data and pics. As long as the weather would not work against us, getting there would not be a problem. Taking off could be a problem cause at that altitude in a single engine normal asperated 180 hp engine, we probably would not be able to climb much faster than 200 feet per minute. I have never taken off of on a run way at that altitude, but I suspect we would have to circle the airport until we obtain the proper altitude. I probably need to get to my "chippindale dancing weight" just to make the airplane a little lighter. Get me some dates, cost of some nice accomadations and I work on finding someone with a Piper Cherokee or Archer who flies out of that airport to see how they do it. :rolling:
 
flyforfun,

you can leave straight out of TEX on 27 at 200fpm with nothing in front of you until the Sierra Nevada .... check out www.tellurideairport.com/pilot.html

coming up from the Albuquerque area, and then into/out of TEX from the WSW (Dove Creek and Cones VORs) is pretty wide open -- and utterly gorgeous. Bring a camera.
 
jimmyp5 said:
flyforfun,

you can leave straight out of TEX on 27 at 200fpm with nothing in front of you until the Sierra Nevada .... check out www.tellurideairport.com/pilot.html

coming up from the Albuquerque area, and then into/out of TEX from the WSW (Dove Creek and Cones VORs) is pretty wide open -- and utterly gorgeous. Bring a camera.
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Now that I am home looking at a sectional, you are right....would be one awsome flight! Have to swipe my new digital camera BB stole from me.
 
Remember, I'm from south Ga., not much surprises me!!:floor: :floor:
 
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