The Breakfast Club
An Affiliate of
the
The Knife & Fork
Breakfast Club Visits Payson/Crosswinds Cafe
10 July 2010
by Warren McIlvoy
This is the time of
the year when the Breakfast Club
wants to keep the monthly events relatively “close-in” so that we can change
our normal arrival time to 0800 rather 0900. This allows us to get out of
bed at a more reasonable time and enjoy the cooler morning temperatures and to
get home before the air has a chance to get overly bumpy. For the month
of July, the event committee chose a pilot favorite in
The story here is not so much Payson but the very comfortable temperatures that we were to enjoy on this event. The early morning weather briefing did not look especially appealing with a few very low clouds, a broken layer (later repaired) and a moderately high overcast layer. By the time that we were to depart for the airport, the low level clouds had dissipated and the broken layer had lifted well above the airport traffic pattern altitude. The overcast was still there but plenty high for us to cross the ridge line between here and Payson.
The direction from Deer Valley Airport to Payson
is northeasterly and just barely long enough to qualify for the cross-country
entry in the logbook. We were talking to some the other Breakfast Club aircraft as we neared the
ridgeline that is 10 miles southwest of
I had called earlier in the week and reserved some tables in
the “patio” room at the far west end of the dinning area. As our group
filed-in, we filled the seats of the two long tables that were set-up for
us. Bob & Dalia Bureker were already there and sitting at a
separate table. They have a place in Payson and “drove” to our
fly-in. There are several constant things about the Crosswinds
Restaurant; the food is always good, the servings are ample, the prices are
reasonable, the views to the north are outstanding. Payson has
always been a pilot favorite with $250 dollar hamburger crowd and
with the restaurant in Sedona being closed until some time next spring;
this is the only place to go that is so close to the
After our breakfast and as the Breakfast
Club folks were preparing to head to their airplanes, I walked to
the west ramp to get some photos of the aircraft that were parked there.
As we were leaving, I debated with myself if I should head straight back or
take the scenic route down the
The Payson Group
- Warren & Jeri-Ann McIlvoy with Paul Fortune in 93MB,
BC-1, 1.5, and 201
- Richard Azimov and Harry Sunenshine in 6864Q, BC-2
- Glen Yoder with Ramona & Jaylin Yoder, BC-007
- Larry Jensen in 14LJ, BC-65
- Roger Whittier in 706CD, BC-122
- Bob & Dalia Bureker, (drove in)
What’s Next?
Our August fly-in will be to another “nearby” location of Prescott, Arizona but to a new restaurant called the Mustang Café at Legend Aviation on the east side of the field. Our September over-night fly-in will be to Bisbee and staying at the Copper Queen Hotel. This is a change from our originally planned Sedona. Since we could not work-out a deal with the Sky Ranch Lodge and the fact that the restaurant is closed, that made changing locations pretty easy. That is all for now, but remember, fly safe.
You may view photos of this fly-in event by clicking on the Payson link