Coming Home Party to View the Eclipse

[RoundTwo]

Since Kerrville is right in the middle of the path of totality, that sounds like a great reason for an eclipse party in front of the Mooney hangar. April 8, 2024.

Anyone interested?

[warren.huisman]

I’ve was thinking the same thing!


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[Fly Boomer]

20 minutes ago, RoundTwo said:

path of totality, that sounds like a great reason for an eclipse party in front of the Mooney hangar. April 24, 2024

That may be late.  NASA says "The Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada."

[RoundTwo]

3 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

That may be late.  NASA says "The Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada."

You are correct, it is the 8th.

[Red Leader]

I'd be down with that! Would it be possible to make it an impromptu Mooney Summit? I can't think of a better place for one.

[DCarlton]

My wife and I traveled to see the Oct annular eclipse in Bryce Canyon Utah.  It was pretty cool.  Learned to use our solar filters and made some great pics and a compilation video but MS won't let me post videos.  Would be a great excuse for a fly in but hotels rooms in the path booked up quick and they were expensive.  Plan ahead.    

[Hank]

1 hour ago, DCarlton said:

My wife and I traveled to see the Oct annular eclipse in Bryce Canyon Utah.  It was pretty cool.  Learned to use our solar filters and made some great pics and a compilation video but MS won't let me post videos.  Would be a great excuse for a fly in but hotels rooms in the path booked up quick and they were expensive.  Plan ahead.    

Post the videos online somewhere, then you can paste a link to the video here and it will automatically create a thumbnail image. Videos are memory intensive, and Craig created Mooneyspace as a hobby.

[RoundTwo]

9 hours ago, Red Leader said:

I'd be down with that! Would it be possible to make it an impromptu Mooney Summit? I can't think of a better place for one.

I totally agree. All we need is someone to pull it all together. 

[RoundTwo]

4 hours ago, DCarlton said:

My wife and I traveled to see the Oct annular eclipse in Bryce Canyon Utah.  It was pretty cool.  Learned to use our solar filters and made some great pics and a compilation video but MS won't let me post videos.  Would be a great excuse for a fly in but hotels rooms in the path booked up quick and they were expensive.  Plan ahead.    

Mini-OSH. Camp at the airport. 

[LANCECASPER]

13 hours ago, RoundTwo said:

Since Kerrville is right in the middle of the path of totality, that sounds like a great reason for an eclipse party in front of the Mooney hangar. April 8, 2024.

Anyone interested?

Sounds like fun, but this area has been planning for it and promoting the upcoming eclipse for the past couple years. They are expecting 150,000 people in a town of 25,000. Every hotel room has been sold out for months. Residents are renting out AirBNB rooms in their homes. 

 

[ArtVandelay]

Sounds like fun, but this area has been planning for it and promoting the upcoming eclipse for the past couple years. They are expecting 150,000 people in a town of 25,000. Every hotel room has been sold out for months. Residents are renting out AirBNB room in their homes. 
 

Wow, and if it happens to be cloudy? At least we have a chance to fly above the clouds to see it.

[RoundTwo]

8 minutes ago, LANCECASPER said:

Sounds like fun, but this area has been planning for it and promoting the upcoming eclipse for the past couple years. They are expecting 150,000 people in a town of 25,000. Every hotel room has been sold out for months. Residents are renting out AirBNB rooms in their homes. 

 

Too bad we don’t know of anyone close to the area that lives on an airstrip.

[LANCECASPER]

Just now, RoundTwo said:

Too bad we don’t know of anyone close to the area that lives on an airstrip.

Haha. I have family coming in for the eclipse and will be a little busy that week. But eclipse or not, we should plan a Mooney homecoming sometime at Kerrville or Fredericksburg (T82) which has a hotel right on the field.

[bcg]

If someone is going to do something, they better hurry up, I'm based at ERV and understand they've already got something planned for the eclipse and have almost all the transient parking reserved already.

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[EricJ]

I flew to Wyoming for the total eclipse a few years ago, and a few weeks ago to Cal Black in UT for the ring of fire.    You will be amazed how many people travel to see these things.   We started planning to go to TX for the one this spring about a year ago and hotels were already full back then.    We're thinking maybe camp some place a few hours away and fly in that morning, but, yeah, you need to go to an airport that won't be completely jammed with airplanes already.   Don't think for a second that you can just pick a place and fly there without some pre-planning. 

This is my vid from Converse County (Douglas, WY) airport for the total eclipse a few years ago.    We flew my buddy's Cherokee for that one.    It's definitely a cool thing to see.
 

 

[EricJ]

11 hours ago, DCarlton said:

My wife and I traveled to see the Oct annular eclipse in Bryce Canyon Utah.  It was pretty cool.  Learned to use our solar filters and made some great pics and a compilation video but MS won't let me post videos.  Would be a great excuse for a fly in but hotels rooms in the path booked up quick and they were expensive.  Plan ahead.    

How was it at Bryce?   That was one of our candidate targets, or Richfield, UT, or Farmington, NM, but it looked like Cal Black would be less likely to have high clouds, and I'd been wanting to go there, anyway.   Cal Black wound up being a ton of fun:
 

 

[DCarlton]

6 hours ago, EricJ said:

How was it at Bryce?   That was one of our candidate targets, or Richfield, UT, or Farmington, NM, but it looked like Cal Black would be less likely to have high clouds, and I'd been wanting to go there, anyway.   Cal Black wound up being a ton of

Bryce worked out fine.  There were a few higher wispy clouds but nothing obscuring the view.  Will try to figure out how to post the video or some pics.  We operated from the parking lot of the hotel room.  

[mhrivnak]

On 11/17/2023 at 7:55 AM, LANCECASPER said:

Sounds like fun, but this area has been planning for it and promoting the upcoming eclipse for the past couple years. They are expecting 150,000 people in a town of 25,000. Every hotel room has been sold out for months. Residents are renting out AirBNB rooms in their homes. 

 

It's a good thing we have airplanes! Fly in during the morning, enjoy the eclipse during lunch and early-afternoon, then depart late afternoon and land somewhere for dinner far from the congestion. That's what we did for the 2017 eclipse, and it worked out great.

[Cruiser]

We are at KPCW which is smack dab in the center of the path of totality. Looking forward to having all you fliers visit the airport, diner and museum while you are here. 

[OR75]

This is what it looked like flying back from Oregon for the eclipse in 2017. 
ATC would not take flight following (only IFR clearances) and lots of smoke from fires that time. Nicer and clear above 10,000ft 

[Pinecone]

Would Mooney let us sleep in their facility???

:D

 

[RoundTwo]

I’ve proposed this idea to Mooney. Stay tuned…

[Skyland]

Any updates to gathering in Kerrville for the April 8 eclipse?

[Mcstealth]

On 11/17/2023 at 6:55 AM, LANCECASPER said:

Sounds like fun, but this area has been planning for it and promoting the upcoming eclipse for the past couple years. They are expecting 150,000 people in a town of 25,000. Every hotel room has been sold out for months. Residents are renting out AirBNB rooms in their homes. 

 

There are now some saying 300,000 in Kerrville. I will believe it when I see it, but it's out there.