MANG Pilot Reports
(Places to fly and reasons why)
Food
Rating scale (one pilots opinion only):
* Not much to look
at, food is IFR only
** Better than *, food is MVFR
to VFR
*** Looks like a real restaurant, suitable
for taking friends, VFR food
**** Linen Napkins and table cloth, food is SKC
***** Suitable for anniversaries, marriage proposals, or to
impress your boss
0.0 = within 100 yards of runway
1.0 or greater, Bicycles or Courtesy Car available
Honey Acres (7N4 Grass) ** Racetrack 0.0, *** Clinton Inn 0.7
Coldwater (3NP) ** 0.0 @ end of runway
Napoleon (3NP Grass) ** 0.0 Cheapest cheeseburger around ice cream.
Bad Axe (BAX) *** (Franklin's) $6.95 weekend buffet, 2.0, 2 Bicycles
St. Ignace **** (several places) 0.0 to 3.0, Courtesy Car
Flushing (3DA) *** 0.0 @ end of runway
Marshall **** (Win Schuler's) Call restaurant for courtesy pick up
Marshall Golf Course ** (burger bar downstairs) and **** upstairs, both 0.0,
Lewiston ***** Garland GC pick ups every 1/2 hour. Poor cellphone coverage
Call ahead or call restaurant on radio from the air. No FBO.
Mt. Pleasant (MOP) ** to **** (several places), 1.0 Call for pick up
Owosso (RNP) ** to *** (several places) closest 0.1, Free Bicycles
Jackson (JXN) *** 0.0 @ hard ramp by tower
Grosse Ile (ONZ) *** 0.0 to (0.4 Catherines N. Rd.) Car at Brooklyn Air
Fulton Co., Ohio (USE) *** Smiths 3.0 Courtesy Car
Sandusky, Ohio (SKY) ** 0.0 @ hard ramp by FBO
Neil Armstrong (AXV) *** 0.4 W. in New Knoxville, Ohio, Car
Sebewaing (98G) *** 0.7 W. walk into town
Additions to this list are welcome. Contact Steve Thornburg by e-mail at sthornbu (at) comcast.net.