College Station, TX

[Pistlpetet]

Ellington

NavyGuy,
I concur on Ellington, any FBO that gives out free beer is tops on my list, not to mention the new hot tub, gym, awesome home theatre/briefing room. Hell, sometimes I fly down there just to watch a movie and chill for the afternoon. I am also definately guilty of having contributed to the declining condition of their BMW 325 courtesy car..lol. As a side note..Got to love those implants on that Lisa chic.

 

[Slug]

Upgraded EFD?

I hadn't been there in several years, but it looks like Ellington is on my "Next O&B" List.

Slug

 

[Tweetybird]

Slug,

You gotta check it out. I can't believe the red carpet treatment that fella who owns the FBO rolls out. Free beer, free food, a "Briefing Room" - if that's what you want to call it. It's actually an awesome theatre. He's also got his own version of billeting. He's built 6 rooms (I think 6) and charges nearly nothing for them. Also, I think he's building more. This guy has cornered the market on service and I think it's working. Every time I go there the ramp is busy!

Drop me a line sometime,

 

[KC-10 Driver]

DLF8108,

I flew tweet ACE at K.I. Sawyer, then at Barksdale. Never made it into Tulsa, though.

One of my favorite stops used to be Pelican Avaition, at Acadiana Regional in New Iberia, Louisiana. A cool t-shirt and free lunch. Wednesdays used to be Cajun day for lunch.

The FBO owner supposedly knew the owner of Tabasco, and would get his hands on some of the mash left over from making the sauce. Then, he'd boil the crawdads with the mash. Those were the best mudbugs I ever had!

 

[KiloBase]

Cajun Wednesday

I had to pay a dollar for my meals.. What’s up with that? Ha Ha Ha. I think they started charging a dollar. Or it depends on how they feel. I pay about every other time. Everyday is some sort of Cajun cuisine. They just got some golf shirts in there too. I think they are 6 bucks or so. Not too bad. Well off to Ellington today. Have to train the new force!!!

 

[pilot141]

Answer to the OP

To (finally) answer the OP, the Tweets you saw and heard at CLL were Laughlin jets. Rasta is a DLF X-C call-sign, but to make sure check out the tails of the jets on the ramp:

XL=Laughlin
RA=Randolph
CB=Columbus
VN=Vance
EN=Sheppard (I think - I usually can't see the tails because the IPs are blocking it as they talk with their hands!)

Freebirds is THE place in CLL. I had a policy that any student that ate an entire Super Monster burrito in one sitting could not only sleep on the way home (it's a T-1), he also got an automatic E for the ride. I had many attempts and many miserable, pale students but no winners. The closest was a kid who actually got down to scooping out the filling of the burrito with a spoon at the bottom of his Super Monster...only to lean over and puke out most of it onto the floor of Freebirds during lunchtime. Not a good way for a single Lt to pick up any chicks.....

The best "free lunch" scam I saw was some of our guys who got sent to pick up a T-1 at CWF (Chennault - the $1 lunch miracle). They got squired into CWF by another T-1 and strolled into the FBO to order thier $1 po-boys. They were informed that the $1 lunch was only for people who bought gas, and since the airplane they were flying back had not bought gas, lunch was $5 each.
In record time they returned with the fuel card to the suspect T-1, and simply said "Fill 'er up, and I'll take the $1 special".

Pay your taxes on time, because otherwise this buffoonery could not take place!

 

[MooseTrax]

Free Steaks

Patmack,

I know that KC Downtown used to give free steaks with xx amount of gas.

 

[jstock]

Kc downtown

I don't know about free steaks, but I was down there on Friday and there were some cute girls working. Alot better than I am used to at the other FBO's I normally visit.

 

[talondriver]

Man...I just hope there isn't some disgruntled, SUPT wash-out wanting to turn us in for F,W & A after this thread. I go (when runway length allows) into civilian fields for the " quality training" my student wouldn't get at a mil field.

check six

 

[MooseTrax]

Quality Training

Uh me too, that's what I was always thinking about, quality student training. Joe Allen's was never the reason I went to ABI Muni vs. Dyess, it was always quality training.


Gee guys, its alright to have a bit of fun as long as it is legal and you are accomplishing the mission.

Regards,