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I'm finally getting back in the cockpit after 14 years. I have an appointment with a CFI this Wednesday.

One of the questions that comes to mind is what are the good online directories for $100 hamburger runs and other fun destinations. What are your favorites?
 
ScottA said:
I'm finally getting back in the cockpit after 14 years. I have an appointment with a CFI this Wednesday.

One of the questions that comes to mind is what are the good online directories for $100 hamburger runs and other fun destinations. What are your favorites?
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Dang! Makes an account a decade ago and posts his first message today! At this rate it's going to take you a *long* time to catch up with Henning!

I'm not aware of any good directories anymore. I've been getting my tips from the various regional pilot groups on facebook for a while now.
 
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If you don't mind Facebook, there's a group called "Airport Based Restaurants." Like most FB groups, it can be a little haphazard but they can be interesting. Some of the submission you won't even find charted on a Sectional (I submitted one of those). But some enterprising person (with time on their hands) has been mapping them. And someone else even began creating ForeFlight content packs.

There are a few websites like fly2lunch.com. But they don't appear to have been updated in years.
 
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rwellner98 said:
Dang! Makes and account a decade ago and posts his first message today! At this rate it's going to take you a *long* time to catch up with Henning!

I'm not aware of any good directories anymore. I've been getting my tips from the various regional pilot groups on facebook for a while now.
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Well, I haven't really been spending any time here until I got serious about flying again. It just wasn't a lot of fun reading everyone else's experience knowing I wasn't going up.
 
ScottA said:
Well, I haven't really been spending any time here until I got serious about flying again. It just wasn't a lot of fun reading everyone else's experience knowing I wasn't going up.
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Sure, of course. Just having some fun with it. Welcome back to the board and to flying!
 
Years ago the 100 hamburger site was open to share info, then it went private and became ridiculously out dated. Did it somehow get better?
 
Initial Fix said:
Years ago the 100 hamburger site was open to share info, then it went private and became ridiculously out dated. Did it somehow get better?
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No idea, there's no trial or sample or anything. Amazon reviews of the book are not good.
 
Initial Fix said:
Years ago the 100 hamburger site was open to share info, then it went private and became ridiculously out dated. Did it somehow get better?
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I bought a subscription a while back. Money I'll never get back...
 
Arrow67 said:
Is it that bad?
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Bad enough that I'm still talking about it years later and it only cost me a few tens of dollars.

I think objectively it was outdated to the point of being useless. When the guide is so unreliable that you have to call every place to verify anyway, then it has negative value because it costs you time, instead of saving you time.

Subjectively, I found the owner/publisher to be super cagey about how he was keeping it current and whether or not he was simply taking reports from the public and putting them in a database. As far as I could tell, it was the latter. Which wouldn't be bad if it was transparent (and free). But my take was that he knew it was not keeping up with conditions on the ground and didn't want to admit that, so attempted to hide behind misleading (at least) statements.

So, yeah. Keep your money. Use google. Call places you are thinking about. It will be both a more effective and cheaper solution.
 
172andyou said:
...I found the owner/publisher to be super cagey about how he was keeping it current...
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Hence the crowd-sourced approach of FlightsForBites.com. Add restaurants not there yourself. Mark as closed restaurants which have. Add comments as conditions change. All updates immediately available for all to see. And it's free.
 
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Mahneuvers said:
Hence the crowd-sourced approach of FlightsForBites.com. Add restaurants not there yourself. Mark as closed restaurants which have. Add comments as conditions change. All updates immediately available for all to see. And it's free.
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Thanks, that reminded me, and I added a couple of this summer's visits.
 
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