The Breakfast Club
An Affiliate of the
The Knife & Fork
Breakfast Club Heads To
The Boarder, Angie's Cafe
12 March 2005
by Warren McIlvoy
It
was sure nice to finally get some truly great flying weather for the March Breakfast Club event
to
After being released by Phoenix Tracon, I tuned-in on our air-to-air, group flight
following frequency to report-in. Don Downin
(BC-10) responded but he was with another group that was going to
Even if the radio airways were clouded with
congestion, the skies were clear as a bell. After passing Ryan, I could clearly
see Kitt Peak Observatory off to our
starboard side.
We all rejoined in the terminal building and Angie's
Café. Angie's is a small café to the right as you enter the
terminal. Tiffen Aviation Services is to the left. Larry
Tiffen is also the airport manager as well as the owner of the FBO and his
wife operates the small café. Seating is somewhat limited as there are
only about 5-6 tables available. The café is a semi, self service style.
The menu is on the wall adjacent to the walk-up order window. The coffee (aka
rocket fuel), is to the right of the window. As you might guess, the menu is
somewhat limited as you might expect from a small, sorta
outback type operation, but the prices were quite inexpensive. My wife and I
got the last of the tables along with Brant & Linda Saperstein.
After placing our orders and getting our drinks, I started filling -out the
attendance sheet and passing it around. I also got some photos of the folks at
various tables as we waited for our food orders to arrive. And we
waited..............and waited................and waited..............and
waited. I would guess that it was 45-minutes before we got our orders. The food
was OK but they are definitely not geared to serve a large influx of hungry
aviators (that can not be good) even after I gave them a weeks
notice that we would be arriving. By the time that we got our food, some of the
folks were ready to leave.
After topping-off with fuel (the airplane as
opposed to rocket) that was about .40 a gallon cheaper than at Scottsdale, some
of us walked down to where Alan had his new plane parked. That DA40 sure had
ramp appeal. The "all glass" panel looked like something right out of
a corporate jet. It took Alan a good 15-minutes to
clean-off al the drool from the envious onlookers. The wind had picked-up just
a tad that reinforced the decision to depart runway 21. The trip home retraced
our inbound flight but with a slight headwind, it took about 10-minutes more
for the return leg.
The
What's Next?
The April Breakfast Club event
will see us traveling to a new location, Williams,
Click on the Nogales
link to view photos of this fly-in event.