Missa said:
Bill,
Thanks for the info I know I'm going to stop by and check out Pro Air while I'm there. The AOPA on line airport directory made it look like three but I figured out one is just the flight training arm of Pro Air.
Thanks for the offer for the instructor, but I probally won't take you up on it. I'll only be there three weeks so if I really hate the instructors at ProAir I'll just take the planes out VFR. What I really need to work on is praticing holding altitue and heading perfectly, and I really don't need an instructor... just a safety pilot.
Any good places to visit while I'm there?
Missa
I just looked at the AOPA directory. ProAero and the training group are affiliated. The third is just a charter outfit. ProAero's good folks - at least they were, and I have no reason to think that's changed.
Good places to visit? By car or by air?
Around Cincy is the museum center in the old train station downtown, the riverfront with nightclubs and restaurants, pro baseball (the Cincinnati Reds), the Krohne Conservatory (greenhouse), the Cincinnati Art Gallery, plus a symphony and performing arts center downtown. There are a number of good restaurants around town. Not always cheap, but good.
I don't recall when Tall Stacks comes to town, but those are old paddlewheelers that ply the Ohio River. Also on the river is the Newport Aquarium.
You must - at the very least - have a Skyline Chili (Goldstar tries, but it's not the same), and some Graeters ice cream. Local delicacies.
I suppose you owe it to yourself to go to Sporty's in Batavia. But go on Saturday, they serve "dogs" for lunch.
Hamilton is part-way to Dayton (30 minutes by car), where you'll find the museum at Wright-Patt AFB, which is worth a day.
There is a nice grass strip out at Waynesville - a town full of antique galleries and home of the Sauerkraut festival once a year.
That enough to get you started?
BTW, I may be up that way in mid-late May to meet up with some friends and business acquatances. If so, I'll let you know.
bill