Coordinates: N 41.8856° W 088.2464°
Date Tried: 12/2/2002 12:20 pm
West Chicago, IL - On DuPage Airport Property
16.78 miles from home

Dashpoint Name: Airport Snow Failure

As I left my office for lunch, I was met with the current dusting of
2 inches (5cm) of snow that had fallen this morning. This made the
driving a little slick, but HEY - it's winter in Chicago.

In May of this year, a pilot buddy and I decided to take a little joy
flight. We flew from West Chicago to DeKalb, did a few touch-and-go
landings and returned before 11 am. The Piper Cherokee we were flying
was a nice aircraft, and it was an exhilarating flight (especially
with taking the GPS76S along and tracking our movements).

The dashpoint lies on the property of the airport from which we
departed and returned on our flight in May. The DuPage Airport has a
large perimeter of the area sectioned off with 6 foot chain link
fence and prominent No Trespassing signs posted about every 100
meters. The closest I got to this dashpoint was by pulling on to the
shoulder of a N/S road about 244 meters east of the dashpoint, and
about 10 meters east of the fence. Unfortunately, without a special
permit from the DuPage Airport (my brother DID work there as an Air
Traffic Controller in the early 80s), this point will be unscorable
for December.

And for those of you playing at home, this point is only 1.37 km from
GD10-BYWO - reported in message 3038.

0 points for Markwell and for Team Trailblazers