Breakfast Club
An Affiliate of the
The Knife &
Fork
16 Feb 2013
by Warren McIlvoy
Our February Breakfast Club event saw us traveling to
“copper country” and the mining town of
GRINE INT is just outside that ring so just about the time
that we reached 7500’ we were at the intersection and starting our southeasterly
turn towards
After securing our aircraft, I walked down to the east end of the hangar row where the door was open and where Roger has his mechanics business. Roger is the person to talk to in order to reserve the “airport limo”. He said that the keys were in it so I waved to my passengers to head towards our transportation. I have since forgotten the make of the car but when you are in need to wheels, it makes little difference if it is a Rolls or a Yugo. In this case, it was closer to the Yugo. Upon start-up, the windshield wipers go through a cycle just in case it might have rained since it was last used.
From the airport to the West
End Café, the distance if just over a mile.
As we pulled into the parking space in front of the restaurant, Adam Rosenberg came running down the road
on his way back to the airport. I
stopped him and asked him if he would take the car back to the airport as there
was still one Breakfast
Club airplane load that would need to get a ride to the
restaurant. When one enters the West End Cafe, you would not be
overwhelmed by the ambiance of the place.
You must remember that you are in copper mining country and Spartan is
the word of the day. Other than the
check-out counter, the lunch counter, and the scattered dinning table, there is
little to distract you from reading the small menu. I seriously doubt that you will ever see the
After a leisurely breakfast and some airplane talk, we began the shuttling of folks back to the airport. At each end of the runway, there is a “tear-drop” loop so that 2-3 aircraft can taxi to the end of the runway. The lead aircraft can finish its run-up and then line-up for take-off while the other two finish their business in the loop. We departed runway 8 with a left turn to the north over town. I headed directly towards the mountains to the west in order to get to the western side as quickly as possible to avoid the bumps that I am quite sure were more enthusiastic that they were earlier in the day. Once on the west side of the slopes, the air was smooth enough to make the ride home a bit more enjoyable.
As we neared Weaver’s
Needle, I started our descent to get below 7,000’ which was the floor of
the overlying Class B airspace. I
continued descending to about 4200’ to stay just above
The
What’s Next?
In March, the Breakfast Club plans on heading west to Chiriaco Summit and dine at the
adjoining truck stop and maybe a visit to the Gen Paton Tank Museum. In
April, we will be flying southwest to
To view photos of this fly-in event, just click on Kearny Photos