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  • We made the easy two and a half hour flight from Hilton Head to Ocan Reef Club Friday morning landing in time for lunch. COPA members started gathering at Ocean Reef Club on Key Largo on Wednesday and Thursday and the bulk of the 50 attendees to the fly-in landed on Friday. Let the record

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  • Saturday

    Saturday started with breakfast on your own at the Ocean Reef Club, which was first class. At 9:00 AM Chuck Daneko, from Winslow Raft Co. presented a hour presentation on water survival. This was followed by a demonstration of raft deployment and boarding in the Lagoon. The rest of Saturday was spent exploring, shopping and

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  • Attending the Ocean Reef Fly-In: Reed and Julie Boone, Robert Busey, Gary and June Bulzan, Dave and Nancy Bushman, Chuck Daneko, Rick and Joyce Dawson, Randall and Jan Ellington, John and Chita Fassini and daughter Andrea, Alan and Judith Grose, Dennis and Jill White Haber, Rick and Kathy Hegenberger, Ron and Vicky Hink, Mason and

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  • Yikes!

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  • Holloween is coming

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  • On Friday, September 28, Joyce and I took off for Colorado Springs, our first stop on a two- week flying trip. We took off in a drizzle, but left the rain behind by the time we were over central Indiana. We made a refueling and lunch stop in Kansas City, MO and then continued to

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  • September 29th we flew from Colorado Springs to Ogden, Utah for fuel and to have lunch with our friends, Glenda and Bob Schrader. It was another pretty day and despite a head wind arrived at lunch time and thoroughly enjoyed visiting with our long time friends. We then took off for Bend to visit the

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  • On the first of October we flew to Sonoma, California. It was a great day to fly, with changing scenery from the high desert of Oregon, past the mountains of northern California, including Mount Shasta, to the valleys of California. We were met at the airport by Gordon Faulkner and Fred Daley, friends from Hilton

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  • Carmel by the Sea

    On October 4, the Daleys and Faulkners drive to Monterey, and we fly. It’s cloudy but we get a glimpse of the Golden Gate and San Francisco. We make an instrument approach into the Monterey airport, then head for fisherman’s wharf to meet our friends for a Dungeness crab lunch. We then tour the spectacular

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  • Beautiful Sedona

    On Thursday morning, October 7, we depart Monterey for Sedona, Arizon. The forecast indicates the possibility of strong winds for our landing. After a great three and a half hour flight the winds are twenty six knots gusting to thirty two at a sixty degree cross wind, challenging. It takes us three tries to figure

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