YIP or ELP for a base???

[rumpletumbler]

Fajita's, Magarita's, Senorita's........is there a pattern developing here?

 

[cj610]

If single...Elp/if married...does it matter?

ELP

I had these friends who said they liked to hang out at some watering hole called the Lamplighter?...they also told me Rods and Wheels was good too.

cj610

 

[wmudriver]

I know I already piped in about this but each has its plus and minus'. Born and raised in MI, did my flight training there and I miss it. Michigan's summers are the best as there is so much to do recreation wise. Its a different type of flying up there like Pilotyip said as the weather is a bit more challenging than the standard ELP clear skys. But with college loans still chasing me, the low cost of living in ELP has certainly helped the pocket books. Its a nice change of life living down here as its laid back, nice weather all the time and just something different than the midwest i've grown up in.

 

[pilotshan]

delta whiskey

D-You have way too much time on your hands! Don't you work???


P.S. I vote YIP. I'm not into the senioritas and I like a little weather now and then. Keeps things interesting.

 

[wmudriver]

sierra charlie

2 of the big 3 automakers are shutdown for retooling now so its kinda slow so yes I have lots of time on my hands.

BTW A$$clown, We may not have the nice beaches of SJU but there is still plenty of sand around the KELP...don't sell us short.

 

[Dizel8]

All you need is one of those kiddie garden pools and a bucket of beer.

 

[pilotshan]

Delta W.

2 of the big 3 automakers are shutdown for retooling now so its kinda slow so yes I have lots of time on my hands.

BTW A$$clown, We may not have the nice beaches of SJU but there is still plenty of sand around the KELP...don't sell us short.

It's called a desert. Look into it...

 

[Jump Pilot]

It does snow in El Paso.

Remember the Sun Bowl about 10 years ago?

 

[Wang Chung]

There are some astonishingly beautiful women in ELP

THAT is a bold statement. Where the hell were they when I was there?? I spent a little time "based" in ELP and I wasn't too impressed. Seemed like a generally boring and unsophisticated place. The weather was a no-brainer, and that was definitely a nice change from the midwest base.

YIP? Don't know much about being based there - the only thing I remember about YIP is clearing customs in the middle of the night and occasionally catching a ride to the local Denny's in the Jet Center crew van.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

D-You have way too much time on your hands! Don't you work???


P.S. I vote YIP. I'm not into the senioritas and I like a little weather now and then. Keeps things interesting.

Hey Shan, didn't you leave Michigan for Eagle in San Juan? Or are you at O'hare?

 

[pilotshan]

Hey Shan, didn't you leave Michigan for Eagle in San Juan? Or are you at O'hare?

I'm in San Juan, not by choice, and counting the hours until I can get back up North. Currently 4,716.

 

[satpak77]

Cutter girls rock

 

[rway36]

Cutter

Cutter girls rock at all Cutters other than ELP. These chicks are cold and very little english. Common for this town. Thank God I'm a Yankee!!!!!!!!!

 

[ChicagoPilot]

Yip

I would definitely vote YIP. There is so much more to do in Michigan.

If you want a social life, try the northern suburbs of Detroit: Royal Oak, for that matter, anywhere in Oakland County. OR try Ann Arbor. Sports fan? Plenty of activities in the Detroit area: Red Wings, Pistons, Red Wings, Lions, Red Wings, Tigers........

And there is GREAT Mexican food in Detroit -- go to Mexican Village just off interstate I-94 (downtown).

As for flying out of Detroit City -- used to be a flight instructor there for a flying club -- not THAT horrible (and flew into there to pick up freight.....).