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Club Dinner Flyouts

We have a tradition of having a number of flying events each year. This allows you to stay current, make acquaintances with other club members, and find interesting places to go. Note that these are not restricted to club members. You are encouraged to bring family and friends with. Just remember to take the weight & balance into account!  We have a mixture of dinner flyouts and destination flyout events.

Students, you may want to take one of these trips with your instructor in order to get some cross-country time. Or consider using these trips as an excuse to get instruction in a larger, faster aircraft; perhaps a twin!

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Dinner Flyouts

Each month between April and October we all get together on the third Saturday to fly to dinner. This is a great opportunity to explore new airports, to get more cross-country time for a rating, and to enjoy the company of fellow pilots and their friends and family in a relaxed setting!  If you are interested in coming or have ideas on where to go, sign up for the Flyouts Mailing List and participate in the discussion.If you don't want to sign up for the list, just call the front desk and book a plane (and an instructor, if appropriate)!  We have to report, however, that a couple of our old standbys havegone west.  Lake Lawn Resort at Lake Geneva and Shannon's Landing at Lansing have both closed.  (Final Approach at Sheboygan is still open, and is on the list of stops!  We earlier erroneously indicated they had closed.)  You'll notice a couple of new restaurants in our destination list this year!  Another place that has opened is Kacy J's at Muncie, IN.  This location, which hs been on again/off again over the past few years is now on again, and the food is pretty good.

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We take both safety and fun seriously, so inclement weather led to the cancellation of the first two dinner flyouts of the season.  If weather threatens the June flyout,we'll do a pizza party at a local pizza place.  If the weather is good, we'll practice the Fisk Arrival into Oshkosh! Please remember, though, that these restaurants are good even if you go without the rest of the group!  Patronize airport restaurants so they will remain in business!

For new restaurants, the food at CJ's in Bloomington has been deemed wonderful, as has that at Kacy J's in Muncie. It's nice to see more good airport restaurants opening, and it's a pity that the weathe this year has made the flyouts so problematic.

Date

Restaurant

City

Airport

 4/16

Steakfire  Canceled due to weather.

Watertown, WI

KRYV

 5/21

Final Approach Restaurant  Canceled due to weather.

Sheboygan, WI

KSBM

 6/18

Friar Tuck's (we'll practice the AirVenture approach)

Oshkosh, WI

KOSH

 7/16

CJ's

Bloomington, IL

KBMI

 9/17

Rick's Cafe & Boatyard

Indianapolis, IN

KEYE

 10/15

Strongbow Inn

Valparaiso, IN

KVPZ

 

We're always open to try new things.  If you've discovered a nice restaurant on or near an airport, send a shout out to the Flyouts Mailing List and suggest it!

Also, feel free to send a note out to the list telling us who you are and what you're looking for in a flyout event.

Trip Reports and Photographs from previous flyouts

June 19th, 2010: Rick's Cafe & Boatyard at Eagle Creek (Indianapolis) IN (KEYE, 140NM SE)

We had a wonderful dinner at Eagle Creek.  We only had two planes head down, but it was a great trip.  We launched from Clow and arrived at Eagle Creek as the FBO there was closing up, so had no landing fee.  We flew down at 5,500 and only had light turbulence around the Boiler VOR, but a very nice tailwind.  We had a wonderful dinner on the deck at Rick's, watching the sunset over the reservoir, with the houseboats and sailboats plying the waters at our feet.  Dinner was delicious.  We had vegetarian pizza, blackened catfish, fisherman's grill (salmon, lobster, shrimp, and scallops), and lobster tail with shrimp.  A lot better than a typical $100 hamburger!  And the company was just delightful.

We launched for home right at official sunset, and enjoyed a nice low and slow flight back up north.  We had some headwinds going back up (to make up for the very nice tailwinds we had on the way down), but the flight was smooth and the visibility was fantastic.  We kept the power in the 182 dialed back so as to not leave the 172 too far behind, and we conversed over 122.75 en route.  After arriving back at Clow, we tied down and headed over to Andy's for a little desert.

All in all, an absolutely wonderful flyout dinner!

August 15, 2009: Frontier at Lake Lawn Resort, Delevan, WI (C59, 60NM NNW)

It was an intimate gathering.  We enjoyed a wonderful prime rib buffet with country fried chicken, seafood salad, fried shrimp, salmon, and other delicious food!  We even made it back to Clow within an hour of sunset!

May 16: Rick's Cafe & Boatyard at Eagle Creek (Indianapolis) IN (KEYE, 140NM SE)
April 18, 2009: Final Approach at Sheboygan, WI (KSBM, 125NM N)

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March 21, 2009: Steakfire at Watertown (KRYV, 92NM NNW)

Our inaugural flyout for the 2009 season was to Steakfire in Watertown.  It is a perennial favorite! We had seventeen people in seven planes go this time, ranging from Jim in the 152 to Al and a couple of pilots regaining currency in the 210.  We enjoyed the $17 steak dinners, and many people took advantage of the wonderful weather to work on their night currency.  After the event, there were three airplanes in the pattern at Watertown doing just that.

 

Past Dinner Flyout Locations