Saturday May 18

Weather looked great from Elmira to Buffalo (Niagara Falls) to Jamestown to Dayton so we filled up the airplanes and departed Elmira for Buffalo. (See course on the Daily Track of Flights).  Mike F. led the way talking to Buffalo Approach and they cleared us directly over Buffalo International Airport and into the Falls Area at 3500 ft. We made 2 orbits of the Falls and our flight track did take us into Canadian Airspace a couple times but we were under approach control at all times so we hope we did not violate any airspace restrictions. Nice job Mike!  Here are a few shots from the area.

 

 

 

 

We departed directly south and landed in Jamestown, NY for lunch and fuel. There is a restaurant at the terminal so we walked over for lunch at a very nice facility. It was about 2:00 and there was one other group of 4 men having lunch. One on the men was Lou Nalbone who owns Jamestown Aviation at the airport. We struck up a conversation with him and he offered to loan us a van for the evening and call the hotel in town for a good rate. How could we pass up that offer?! So we stayed here instead of flying into Dayton.

 

 Lou also recommended a restaurant and said he would call the owner and let him know we were coming. We checked into the hotel and took time to do some laundry or just relax. We went to the Italian Fisherman owned by Dan Dalpra in Benus Point NY. The Italian Fisherman is located on a large lake with a great view and great food.

 We are at the airport here on Sunday morning waiting for the lower ceiling to burn off before we depart for Dayton. As it stands now we will head for home after Dayton but it does not look like we will be able to get into north Georgia until Tuesday at the earliest. We have to see.

Mike and I are excited to get back as we have been asked to be part of the barber shop quartet in the Gainesville Theater Alliance presentation of the Music Man this summer. Should be great fun!