Appears to be a citation down in carlsbad, ca

[lowtimedriver]

Good post, FL420. I worked and flew at CRQ a long time ago; it's depressing how development has been allowed to encroach on the county's best GA airport. When it's gone, I guess the poobahs will have to helicopter up to Rancho Santa Fe from Lindbergh -- 'cause the drive sucks.

CRQ isn't going anywhere for a long time. A little more than a year ago, they demolished what to me, was the best airport diner in So Cal and the GA areas surrounding the restaurant. They are completing construction on a multi-million dollar project to expand the biz-jet capablities of CRQ. They are putting in some huge hangars and we will be seeing more corporate departures and arrivals from CRQ. You probably think they would have fixed the friggin runway before they did this. There is nothing more dangerous than land developers with local politicians in their deep pockets.

 

[81Horse]

Oh, yeah, that was a good diner. Gillespie and Montgomery had good diners, too -- way, way back in the day.

 

[FL420]

CRQ isn't going anywhere for a long time. A little more than a year ago, they demolished what to me, was the best airport diner in So Cal and the GA areas surrounding the restaurant. They are completing construction on a multi-million dollar project to expand the biz-jet capablities of CRQ. They are putting in some huge hangars and we will be seeing more corporate departures and arrivals from CRQ. You probably think they would have fixed the friggin runway before they did this. There is nothing more dangerous than land developers with local politicians in their deep pockets.

They don't have too much buildable land on the south side as that land was used as a landfill years ago and has had some severe settling problems. That's probably the only reason any light GA aircraft are still on the field.

 

[XTW]

This accident really was bugging me because the name Frank Jellinek sounded so familiar and I just couldn't place it. I was aware he recently placed the following ad on SkyJobs for a pilot:



I did some more research and discovered he was the Chairman Emeritus of Fisher Scientific and a classmate of mine at Miami University. He was a Sigma Chi fraternity brother of Mike Oxley(R-Ohio) of Sarbanes-Oxley fame. I didn't know him but knew of him.

Now I really wish we would have been successful in getting the runway extended.

Mr. Jellinek was a very nice man. He was also in auto racing earlier in his life.


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