Quick flight to Maine

[orionflt]

I ran my daughter back home to Maine this morning, made some great time up. Surprisingly by staying low (2.5-3.5k) I made pretty good time on the return trip. Averaged around 190kts GS up and 130kts back.

[TWinter]

Lewiston, Maine? Been there a few times. Nice..great speed.

[tonyk628]

NICE!

[Nathan Peterson]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

[Danb]

Rock & Roll

[orionflt]

Lewiston, Maine? Been there a few times. Nice..great speed.

Lewiston is a great airport to go into, but they just shut down their restaurant. one of my last trips up I flew in to Brunswick, it was my first time in there since the base shut down and was really eerie. I was use to all the P-3's on the ramps and the base bustling with activity.   

[jlunseth]

If you know Maine well, maybe you can answer a question.  I have wanted to fly there with a cooler the last couple of years to buy some lobster off the docks, the prices have been really low.  Just don't know where to buy them.  If they smell tourist, especially pilot tourist the price goes up to $20 per lb.

[fantom]

......If they smell tourist, especially pilot tourist the price goes up.....

Same situation at Everglades City (X01) in SoFL when buying Stone Crabs just off the boat.

[TWinter]

I lived in Portsmouth, NH (seacoast) for almost 15 yrs. There's what was Pease AFB (actually was a very active military base at one time and hit the military closed list in the 90s). It's a public airfield now and right on the Maine/New Hampshire Seacoast. The airport id is PSM. There are still a few water front fish stores in downtown Portsmouth that sell to the public. Don't know about the tourist mark-up margin, but toss in some Yankee slang and ask for "Lobsta" and maybe they won't know the difference.

 

I'm flying up that way this summer to visit old friends..can't wait. I've never landed at Pease. It was still a military base when I was flying up there. Gonna feel strange landing at the base with the monster size runways.

[orionflt]

If you know Maine well, maybe you can answer a question.  I have wanted to fly there with a cooler the last couple of years to buy some lobster off the docks, the prices have been really low.  Just don't know where to buy them.  If they smell tourist, especially pilot tourist the price goes up to $20 per lb.

I lived in Bath and was stationed at Brunswick for yrs, there use to be a place to buy lobster right outside the gate, there are also a couple of places in wiscasset but I'm not sure about transportation out of there. When mike and ann ran the FBO they had a courtesy car. I'm not a lobsta eater so I never tried to buy directly from the docs, but when we had friends in town that wanted lobsta I would get them from Gilmores in down town bath.

[orionflt]

I lived in Portsmouth, NH (seacoast) for almost 15 yrs. There's what was Pease AFB (actually was a very active military base at one time and hit the military closed list in the 90s). It's a public airfield now and right on the Maine/New Hampshire Seacoast. The airport id is PSM. There are still a few water front fish stores in downtown Portsmouth that sell to the public. Don't know about the tourist mark-up margin, but toss in some Yankee slang and ask for "Lobsta" and maybe they won't know the difference.

 

I'm flying up that way this summer to visit old friends..can't wait. I've never landed at Pease. It was still a military base when I was flying up there. Gonna feel strange landing at the base with the monster size runways.

I got my PPL flying with the Navy flying club out of Brunswick, I was landing on 8000 x 200 runways so landing on big runways wasn't a big deal..........or at least I thought so until I landed a pease in a 152 for the first time. I did a full stop landing and thought wow this runway is not really all that long, but it sure is wide. Ok, so I really did land in the right direction, but it was still wide. Then reset and took back off, as I was climbing out I commented to my instructor that I could land again and still have enough rooms for a safe take off. Since that time I have landed there in my mooney and I highly recommend landing long.....very long if your going to the FBO. Also interaction takeoffs are not a concern. Landing on a runway that size is a must for any pilot.

Brian

[Marauder]

I used to love to vacation in Bar Harbor during the 90s. They didn't have a car rental service back then so I always went to Bangor. I think with the overruns, that airport was over 12k.

[Bob_Belville]

I lived in Bath and was stationed at Brunswick for yrs, there use to be a place to buy lobster right outside the gate, there are also a couple of places in wiscasset but I'm not sure about transportation out of there. When mike and ann ran the FBO they had a courtesy car. I'm not a lobsta eater so I never tried to buy directly from the docs, but when we had friends in town that wanted lobsta I would get them from Gilmores in down town bath.

We go to KiWI, Wiscasset at least once a year. They have rental cars but also a courtesy car and a very helpful lady who is a town employee as the town has taken over the FBO. Good price on self serve fuel as well There's a fish market on US1 between the airport and the town.

 

But I suppose you don't have to go that far up the coast if all you want to do is get some live lobsters to go. Be sure to get steamers as well!  

 

If we're driving we like to stop at Harraseeket in South Freeport. But I don't think there's an airport on the coast between Portland and Brunswick.

[TWinter]

Bar Harbor is nice..That was one of my XC stops for my PPL back in the 80s.

[orionflt]

We go to KiWI, Wiscasset at least once a year. They have rental cars but also a courtesy car and a very helpful lady who is a town employee as the town has taken over the FBO. Good price on self serve fuel as well There's a fish market on US1 between the airport and the town.

 

But I suppose you don't have to go that far up the coast if all you want to do is get some live lobsters to go. Be sure to get steamers as well!  

 

If we're driving we like to stop at Harraseeket in South Freeport. But I don't think there's an airport on the coast between Portland and Brunswick.

When i was stationed at Brunswick I would work at KIWI helping mike out when he needed it. when Mike was getting ready to retire I was living in PA but making trips up on a regular basis, on one of the trips up Mike offered to sell be the business, It was more then a fair price but i wasn't interested in moving back up to Maine. I did meet the guy who took over the maintenance shop, seemed like a good person.

[jlunseth]

I have landed on a number of big runways.  Duluth MN has a long one, over 10,000'.  The problem is that they often do not allow intersections (many towers to the east) so if the wind was from the east the taxi from the FBO is over a mile and on top of that, the taxiway angles away from the runway.  It feels like you are driving to North Dakota.

[aviatoreb]

We love BHB - we go at least once per year.

 

Check out East Port Maine.  KEPM.  Eastern most township in the USA.  Its a small island (connected by a bridge) with an airport on the Bay of Fundi.  Very quiet and more authentic and less tourist than Bar Harbor.

[Bob_Belville]

We love BHB - we go at least once per year.

 

Check out East Port Maine.  KEPM.  Eastern most township in the USA.  Its a small island (connected by a bridge) with an airport on the Bay of Fundi.  Very quiet and more authentic and less tourist than Bar Harbor.

Looks like a nice place to visit while in ME. 

[orionflt]

another good day spot is Boothbay, we lived right by the river in Bath and on the weekends we would put the boat in the water and go over to boothbay to walk around looking at the shops. the boat ride over was definitely more enjoyable then the drive and probably a lot quicker because of the tourist traffic up RT 1. of course the trip was never complete until we had some homemade ice cream.