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jsstevens

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So, I'm one of the few still belonging to AOPA, I guess (from the comments on this board anyway). They are having a summer virtual poker run. 7 card stud, you get a card for each public use airport you check into via their app (GPS checked for location). I read about it last week. So today, I took a club 172 and landed at 7 different airports around Central Florida. It gave me something to do other than chug around the pattern.

I headed out of home base at Sanford (KSFB) around 8AM. I landed at Umatilla (X23), then Ocala (KOCF), Crystal River (KCGC), Inverness (KINF), Leesburg International (seems a little pretentious to me as a life long local) (KLEE), then Orlando Apopka (X04) and back to Sanford. Took 3.4 hours on the hobbs. There were a fair amount of low cloud puffballs, and Ocala was LIFR due to mist when I took off from Sanford, but it had burned off well before I got there.

This was a fun way to push myself a little as these airports are not far apart so switching radios, picking up ATIS/ASOS and calling in by 10 miles out took some focus. Also, I used the flight plan in the 430 to do the whole shebang-worked nicely and I still remember how to do it.

My landings were not so hot. A lot of gentle bounces. Oh well, more to work on.

John
 
Sounds like a fun day.

I did flight training through multi commercial at Sanford, and been to all those airports at least once.
 
Zeldman said:
Sounds like a fun day.

I did flight training through multi commercial at Sanford, and been to all those airports at least once.
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Yes, they're popular flight training practice airports (all but Umatilla-I think it's so small and tucked away that people forget it's there). There was a ton of traffic at Ocala, none at Crystal River except the ops people inspecting the runways, some at Inverness but gone before I got there, a ton at Leesburg and 3 in the pattern at Apopka - 2 172's and a Cirrus who was trying to squeeze in power off 180s. I even heard the dreaded "Right final" call headed into Apopka. :) And so many accents!
 
Oh, yeah, my poker hand sucked: a pair of 10s with ace high trash.
 
jsstevens said:
And so many accents!
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Hard to understand accents were few and far between when I was there.

Ocalla and Leesburg did not have towers back then.

I once landed at Pahokee. They had oranges and tangerines for sale. I bought a lunch bag worth of tangerines and found a bushel of tangerines and oranges in the back of the plane when I left... :lol::lol:
 
SoonerAviator said:
What do you get if you win the hand?
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Free hat? I thought I was joking, but there's probably a hat in here somewhere.

There will be three (3) Grand Prize winners and (1) consolation prize for the worst hand. The 1st Grand Prize winner will receive a Bose A20 Headset and AOPA Prize Pack. AOPA Prize Pack consists of 1-year iFlightPlanner Premium access, 1-year AOPA PPS Plus membership and a $100 AOPA Pilot Gear gift card. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the 1st Grand Prize is $1,400. The 2nd Grand Prize winner will receive a 2021 D2 Air Garmin watch and AOPA Prize Pack. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the 2nd Grand Prize is $1,000. The 3rd Grand Prize winner will receive a $250 Randolph® gift card and AOPA Prize Pack. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the 3rd Grand Prize is $650. The worst hand winner will receive an AOPA Prize Pack. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the Worst Hand prize is $390. ARV of all Grand Prizes is $3,440.
 
I was wearing my AOPA hat.

here’s the prizes:
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What's sad is that I probably don't have time to do this because I'll be flying commercially for work to at least 7 different airports in the next 15 days.

RDU
Atlanta
DFW
JAX
Vegas
Ontario, CA
SLC

It WOULD be cheating if I checked in from a commercial airport I didn't fly to, right?
 
bflynn said:
Free hat? I thought I was joking, but there's probably a hat in here somewhere.

There will be three (3) Grand Prize winners and (1) consolation prize for the worst hand. The 1st Grand Prize winner will receive a Bose A20 Headset and AOPA Prize Pack. AOPA Prize Pack consists of 1-year iFlightPlanner Premium access, 1-year AOPA PPS Plus membership and a $100 AOPA Pilot Gear gift card. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the 1st Grand Prize is $1,400. The 2nd Grand Prize winner will receive a 2021 D2 Air Garmin watch and AOPA Prize Pack. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the 2nd Grand Prize is $1,000. The 3rd Grand Prize winner will receive a $250 Randolph® gift card and AOPA Prize Pack. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the 3rd Grand Prize is $650. The worst hand winner will receive an AOPA Prize Pack. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the Worst Hand prize is $390. ARV of all Grand Prizes is $3,440.
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Just wait until someone wins while spoofing the check-ins all from the comfort of their living room couch, lol. I also never received an AOPA hat in the 10 years I was a member. Cheap bastages.
 
I always forget about these things. I've probably been to 20 airports during the time frame, but the last time I tried the aopa passport app it was such hot garbage I deleted it.
 
Jim K said:
I always forget about these things. I've probably been to 20 airports during the time frame, but the last time I tried the aopa passport app it was such hot garbage I deleted it.
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It’s not great. I had to kill and restart it once to get it to update location to where I was. And I attempted to download the directory database twice. It hung about halfway through both times. 49.8% once and 53.4%. And if you don’t have connectivity it won’t register.
 
I’m still a member of AOPA,have been doing the pilot passport program. The rules aren’t very we’ll defined. Just another way to track your flights.
 
jsstevens said:
Yes, they're popular flight training practice airports (all but Umatilla-I think it's so small and tucked away that people forget it's there). There was a ton of traffic at Ocala, none at Crystal River except the ops people inspecting the runways, some at Inverness but gone before I got there, a ton at Leesburg and 3 in the pattern at Apopka - 2 172's and a Cirrus who was trying to squeeze in power off 180s. I even heard the dreaded "Right final" call headed into Apopka. :) And so many accents!
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My CFI pulled the throttle on me one time near Umatilla and I had to make a power-off landing on that little strip. I think it’s 2500’. Only time I ever landed there. The landing wasn’t pretty but it was safe. It made for a good practice exercise.

I know what you mean about accents at Apopka. First Landings gets lots of foreign students. It once tempted me into having a little fun on the radio: “Apopka International traffic, Cherokee 123AB downwind 33.”
 
SoonerAviator said:
I also never received an AOPA hat in the 10 years I was a member. Cheap bastages.
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The secret is to let your membership expire. They will send notices out for renewal. Then just wait for the offer of the free gift you want. I have a few hats and a few more headset bags. My membership is about to expire so I will be waiting for that free gift offer.
 
Zeldman said:
The secret is to let your membership expire. They will send notices out for renewal. Then just wait for the offer of the free gift you want. I have a few hats and a few more headset bags. My membership is about to expire so I will be waiting for that free gift offer.
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How long do you have to wait before they give you a winning sweepstakes entry?
 
I am still a member, John. I think the poker run thing is a good thing. It gives you a goal to accomplish.
 
Zeldman said:
The secret is to let your membership expire. They will send notices out for renewal. Then just wait for the offer of the free gift you want. I have a few hats and a few more headset bags. My membership is about to expire so I will be waiting for that free gift offer.
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Lol, already done. Still get snail mail and email notices about it.
 
Landed at 4 airports yesterday and all I've got is a pair of Kings.
Still have 3 airports to go.
 
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