Breakfast Club
An Affiliate of
the
The Knife & Fork
Breakfast Club Drops-In on
13 Apr 2013
by Warren McIlvoy
The last time that the Breakfast Club visited
A couple of months prior to our April event, while on a Flights For Mission, I spoke with Jim Combs, the General Manager of Million Air to get their two vans reserved for our transportation to Mimi’s. Jim was a career aviator in the Marine Corp and was stationed across the field at the time of his retirement. Just to prevent him from having to learn a new route to travel to work, Jim assumed the position of GM at Million Air.
Over the 10-years that I have been associated with Flights For Life,
I have flown to NYL somewhere around 35 times.
In the 8-years that I have flown out of
Since runway 8/26 was closed for maintenance and with light winds out of the south, runway 17 was the runway of choice. I was cleared for a left base entry to 17 which is very convenient since my roll-out will take you right to the mid field exit at Z3. Yuma Ground cleared me to Million Air via Z/Z3 where the ramp folks were waiting for us and directing us to the tie-downs. After gathering everyone had gathered in the lobby, we departed the west parking lot entry and piled into one of the vans.
I have driven off the airport only a couple of times over
the years so getting to the main east/west street that runs along the north
side of the airport was fairly simple.
It was only after passing the turn-off to the main terminal that I had
to rely solely on my memory of the MapQuest
map to get to the restaurant. Over the
years, there is little of
I had called the restaurant a few weeks in advance of our fly-in so when we entered the restaurant, we were directed to our large table that had been reserved for us. I have dined at a number of different Mimi’s Restaurants around the state and I can say they don’t differ at all from their format from one place to the other. You can pretty much depend on getting a good meal at any of their locations.
After our hearty meal and plenty of hangar flying, it was time to retrace our steps back to the airport and by now I had it down pat. I thanked Jim for the use of their van and then, after the mandatory “pit stop”, headed out the door for our aircraft. The trip home was an exact reverse of route coming in the morning. We all had a good time at a place not really known for any sort of tourism but with other aviators, how can it miss?
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