Holy crap, Fran. What a friggin nightmare. I d never fly with them again. I ve only flown Southwest

This Romanticon was the first time I have ever flown Frontier Airlines...and the first time in over 20 air pla ne trips that I have had nearly more trouble than the plane trip was worth. My trip had been planned since July. Reservations made. Hotel all set up. Electronic tickets...the works. In all the times I have flown before, the planes have been on time...the connecting flights have been on time...and the whole ball of wa x.
I should have realized that things would go haywire when we were informed that the plan e that I expected to fly out to Denver on was nearly cheap vacation packages an hour late. Because they had to switch planes in Seattle. Because of mechanical problems. But it would be just fine, they said, "because the connecting flight I was to catch in Denver would be an hour and a half late." Because they had to switch out planes. Because of mechanical problems.
Well, That put me two and a half hours behind schedule to catch the last hotel shuttle from the airport to the McKinley Grand Hotel, which was a free service. The result? I had to find a cab at 1:45 a.m. and pay $70.00 to get myself to the hotel. Instead of getting a good eight hours of sleep before having to get up and start motivating, I got exactly three.
Dragging my fanny out of bed and crawling downstairs to breakfast was a real joy. Ahhhh...the free breakfast buffet. cheap vacation packages I was hungry enough to eat a cardboard horse that morning, so it tasted fantastic. Of course, nobody told me that I could order anything off the hotel breakfast menu that I wanted (for free) so I settled for the reconstituted scrambled eggs and hashbrowns, some cut up cantaloupe and tons of crisp bacon or sausage every morning. When I could have had eggs benedict...or waffles...or....sigh.
LOL! I guess I should have asked, right? No big deal, because it was free food and I was on a budget (especially after that $70 taxi ride). Besides...I'm used to my own cooking, and can't say that I'm a gourmet chef.
The hotel was great...the convention was fabulous. A wonderful time was had by all. I hated to leave. cheap vacation packages Then I took the free hotel shuttle back to the airport...only to find that my plane was late. Because they had to switch out the planes. cheap vacation packages Because of mechanical problems.
Because my connecting flight in Denver would be taking off about an hour BEFORE my delayed flight would land, they scrambled to find me another flight from Denver to Utah. They got me on a United Airlines flight that was to leave Denver at 10:05 p.m....making it necessary to call my son to pick me up four hours later than I had asked at first. So I looked cheap vacation packages at the scrolling flight boards in Denver to find my flight out, and it said that flight 6314 would leave from gate 33A at exactly 10:05 p.m.
YAY! I had time to get a bite to eat and I found a McDonald's cheap vacation packages about one football field away from gate 33A and had a leisurely cheap vacation packages meal. After gobbling my meal and dragging my 70 pounds of carry-on luggage back to gate 33A , figuring that I would relax until the flight boarded at 9:39 p.m., I opened a book and read for a couple of hours. After a while I began to notice that there was no one joining me for the next flight from gate 33A, and the scrolling sign over the podium said "Montreal 11:15 p.m."
So I got up and walked over (dragging my friggin' two-ton luggage filled cheap vacation packages with books and junk from the convention) and found a gate attendant and asked if I was in the right place for flight 6314 to SLC. She hit a few dozen keys and replied laconically, "You are at the wrong gate. Flight 6314 has been changed... uh-huh ...because we had to switch out the plane." Because of mechanical problems. Uh-huh. So where was I suppose to be to catch flight 6314 now? Ummm...where the hell is gate 90B? Ummm...whatdya mean, it's about five miles that-a-way?
Thank God there were four people movers that covered 40 of the gates in between...but that left this tired, frustrated, old lady humping her five-ton luggage through two full concourses, over the river and through the woods, down to another level, then back up and back down again. I finally sank into a chair at gate 85A because I was about to fall on my face. (The altitude change from 1100 feet to 5600 feet didn't help my blood pressure).
After huffing and puffing until my heart rate lowered to a safe 120 bpm, and getting my second wind, I crawled out of that lovely chair and managed to drag the ten-ton luggage to gate 90A, where I collapsed and waited anxiously for them to announce that my gate had been changed back to 33B!
Then came the ominous announcement that they were asking for "volunteers" to take a flight the following morning because the smaller plane was seriously oversold...no friggin' way! I am here...you WILL take me home TONIGHT!!!
I was fully ready to fight my way into the damn plane if need be, and didn't mind one damn bit having to check my carry on bag at the gate because the overhead cheap vacation packages area was "too small" for roll alongs. I was finally on the plane...the oversold one...when a commotion broke out at the front. There was a slightly over-Xantaxed passenger who was talking too loudly about the last time she flew and how she had started screaming "OH GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"
The flight attendants asked her take a later flight that wasn't so crowded, and her two adult kids (who shared my three-seat row) decided they would not fly out without Mom. So I was able to stretch out over three seats and watch a free in-flight movie because...uh huh...the flight was so late.
Holy crap, Fran. What a friggin nightmare. I d never fly with them again. I ve only flown Southwest cheap vacation packages and haven t had issues to date. Though I HATE to fly regardless of the company. I drove 10 hrs last time I went to RomantiCon all to avoid flying. Reply Delete Replies Fran Lee October 25, 2012 1:54 PM
Truly was a nightmare. I have always used other airlines before this. But when Frontier had FOUR problems, I decided not to even try them in future. I only selected them this trip because the other airlines here take about 2,000 miles out of my way...dragging me down to Houston or Atlanta for connections to Ohio. A short stop in Denver wasn t so bad, and it took four hours less flight time...but now I think driving will be best. Delete Reply Paris October 25, 2012 4:14 AM
I m with you on the alternative Shadowfax solution, lol! I haven t flown in years because the aggravation just isn t worth it. Next year RT is in Kansas City, so that s only a two hour drive and I plan on being there, how about you saddle up the critter and come say hi:) Reply Delete Replies Fran Lee October 25, 2012 1:55 PM
I feel for you, Fran. It s no fun getting to the back of beyond dragging so much luggage. Hope you make it next year without a problem! I had one such incident, waaaay back when DH and I took a belated honeymoon to northern Italy. We got to the international Milan airport to discover that no planes had been flying OUT of JFK for the past 24 hours because of extreme flooding in NYC (no pilots or crew could get there), so there were no big planes to fly BACK to JFK. That meant no planes flying out of London, Madrid, Munich, Lisbon, or any of the international airports in Europe, because none of the planes took off from JFK. DH finally snagged us a flight from London Heathrow 3 days later, which meant we had to take a train to Bonn and a connecting puddle-jumper from there to London. The good part? The flight was half empty and I could stretch out over all 3 seats and snooze all the way home. BUT, the telegram we sent to arrange pickup didn t get to its intended target cheap vacation packages and we had to take a cab from JFK to Smithtown at the equivalent (in 1985 dollars) of your $70 fare. Reply Delete Replies Fran Lee October 25, 2012 1:59 PM
Yours topped mine. Thanks for sharing, love. Traveling anywhere by plane nowadays is scary. I can t afford $1,000 for a first class ticket, and sitting crammed cheap vacation packages in with two or three others in 24 inch wide seats is the pits. I always ask for a window seat so I can lean against the wall and avoid knocking elbows with my neighbors. Delete Reply jean hart stewart October 25, 2012 9:53 AM
I ve quite flying, and I won t go into the horrendous details of some of my overseas flight. But my son comes to visit from New York on Jet Blue and swears it is like flying used to be. They actually treat him like a person. Reply Delete Replies Fran Lee October 25, 2012 2:01 PM
Jet Blue seems to be far better, but their flights don t go where I need to get From here. I tried booking a flight cheap vacation packages to Ohio but it connected in Miami? There are just so few flights out of here that are non-stop or reasonable connections. Sigh. Delete Reply Tessie Bradford October 25, 2012 4:14 PM
One of my favorite bad flying experiences is when we flew from Detroit to Tampa for my son s wedding. We were delayed on the freeway so we had to dash through the airport - of course we were at the farthest gate possible. The staff at the desk gave us attitude over our lateness. It was in July and over 100 degrees. They finished boarding the plane around 3:30, we were supposed to leave at 4pm. Inside the plane was like an oven. We sat and sat and sat. Smoke started coming from numerous air vents follwed by a very suspicious odor. People got nervous. We sat for a while longer. Men with tool belts came on the plane. They banged and clanged and conferred with each other. Then the flight attendants went around and said everything was just fine. We sat for a while longer. Passengers, myself included, became extremely grumpy. We hadn t been allowed anything to drink, cheap vacation packages or allowed to use the bathroom, or allowed to leave the now extremely stinky sweatbox! Three and a half hours had passed!! In what I m sure they thought was an announcement that would help diffuse the situation, they announced over the speaker that we d be leaving as soon as they found a pilot!!!!!! We sat for almost an hour longer. cheap vacation packages Reply Delete Replies Fran Lee October 26, 2012 1:53 PM
I m glad RomantiCon is in driving range for m

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So, after spending a day in Manaus, Brazil, I think I can safely say that it has been fun, hot, and

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Preface: This post is taking so long to write that I decided to split it up into three parts: the first two days, the second two days, and my reflections on the event. Sorry for the wait everyone! m(_ _)m
In the weeks and days before I left for Atlanta I was progressively getting more and more excited. I m a big fan of Kikka, and while I ve seen and interacted with several other idols beforehand, never were they ones I was already really into. I was a casual fan of Morning Musume and Mano-chan christmas ocean cruise when I saw them in Los Angeles, and I attended AKB48 s concert mostly out of curiosity and convenience. But Kikka? I was already smitten with the girl, and was going in with preconceptions that I was afraid that neither she nor the event would be able to live up to. Boy was I wrong.
It is truly a rare occurance when something comes along that blows away all of your expectations so completely that you are almost left in a complete daze after it ends. Kikkawa You s visit to Atlanta, Georgia was just one of those events for me.
To be fair I ve been putting off my write-up about this event for a while now. Sure, part of it is that I ve been busy desperately trying to get caught christmas ocean cruise back up at work, but mostly I ve simply been afraid that I wouldn t be able to do the event justice.
My plan to get to my hotel and the convention center started with coercing my best friend ( ) to drive me the 80 or so miles to LAX for a midnight flight to Atlanta. I got to LAX around 9 o clock on the 26th and it was surprisingly not very crowded. My plane boarded on time, and we were in the air as scheduled.
One neat thing about that flight was that there was a fairly major thunderstorm in our flightpath over the New Mexico/Arizona area, so the plane climbed to 40,000 feet to be above the storm. Watching a thunderstorm from ABOVE the clouds at night is an incredibly cool experience!
christmas ocean cruise At 7:00 AM Eastern time my flight arrived in Atlanta. I don t know how many of you have ever been to the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, but it s HUGE. It has six 2,000+ foot long terminal buildings each separated by over 1,000 feet between them. The airport even has its own internal subway system underneath the terminals to ferry passengers between them!
It was after my arrival at the airport christmas ocean cruise that my travel plans got to be a little dicey. One thing you may not know about me is that I m frugal to a fault. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly christmas ocean cruise Hotel (the location of AWA) are pretty much on the opposite christmas ocean cruise ends of Atlanta, and I was not going to pay the $50 it would take to hire a cab to get me out there. So I decided to take public transit the 18 miles from the airport to convention center.
From the MARTA rail station at the airport I took the red line to Midtown Station, and from there bus 12 to the Cumberland Mall which my hotel sat across from. Overall, the journey lasted a little shy of two hours and took me through some pretty diverse areas of Atlanta. From the rather nice (downtown, and a surprisingly upscale neighborhood) to even the less-touristy places (that appears to be half a house?), it was quite the cultural experience. Also: cheap. Only five bucks!
After departing the bus I slogged through the early morning mall, made it into my hotel, christmas ocean cruise checked in (surprisingly quickly too, I might add!), went up to my room, and promptly passed out for seven hours. This was now Thursday morning, and I hadn t slept at all during the flight over. Furthermore, I had put in my eight hours at work on Wednesday, AND watched Kikka s NicoNico stream that morning, so I was running on about three hours of sleep at that time!
By the time I had woken up in the late afternoon christmas ocean cruise and headed across the street to the Renaissance Waverly to pick up my registration badge the surrounding area had changed dramatically! Namely, lots and lots of cosplayers! It was quite the contrast from that morning and took me a bit by surprise! I would say on a whole, actually a far larger percentage of the people who attended AWA were cosplayers compared to the likes of AX and AM2. Yay Georgia? Well, I ll also add that most of the cosplayers there also had a far better understanding christmas ocean cruise that a 250lb man shouldn t cosplay Yoko from Gurren Lagann, so yeah, definitely yay Georgia.
So I traveled through the lobby of the Renaissance Waverly to the upper level and found about 150 people in line waiting for registration. Not too bad. The thing was though, that those 150 or so people were actually blocking my view of the line that I was supposed to be in . I had actually been given a Media Pass by the convention, and as such, was allowed to register via the special VIP line. You know, like a boss.
So I acquired my badges and got out of there in a timely fashion without any issues. The rest of the night was relatively christmas ocean cruise uneventful. Went back to my hotel room to rest a bit more, got an incredibly over-priced hamburger for dinner from the hotel coffee shop, and attended my only actual anime-related christmas ocean cruise event of the convention, christmas ocean cruise Old School Classroom. Sure, it might have been the only event happening Thursday night, but it was still quite a bit of fun. Quite a few very odd 1970 s era Anime were shown, and it was presented by Dave Merrill who was actually the convention s chairman!
On Friday Kikka had two events scheduled, christmas ocean cruise an autograph session in the exhibition hall, and a Q A session entitled Behind the Music with Kikka. Her autograph session was set to start at 1PM with the exhibition hall itself opening an hour earlier at 12PM. Now, I had figured that there would be quite a few people there to see her, but not a massive amount, so I thought that getting in line at around nine would probably be a pretty safe bet in order to get an autograph.
I got into the convention center around nine and started looking for the large line for the exhibition hall, but I couldn t find it. Was there really no line? I was pretty sure I was in the right general area. So just to be sure, I took up a seat next to a pillar and waited for about 20 minutes, and lo and behold!
For me I still get a magical feeling that first time I see an idol in person. A mixture of amazement and awe, the kind that gives you goosebumps on the back of your neck. It s a feeling that will never get old.
So, since I now knew where the line actually was, I went over and introduced myself to the other Kikka fans, who naturally were in the very front of it, though, to be fair, there were only about six other people behind them at that point so they pretty much were the line.
While I was up at the front of the line Kikka came back to re-enter the exhibition hall! In an odd bit of something that someone could almost call luck, the several doors that made up the entrance to the hall seemed to lock and unlock in a different configuration anytime anybody would enter and exit! This meant that it took her staff a good minute or so of bewilderment to even get back into the hall! During the wait she came over and talked to us fans a bit more. Here, and all throughout the convention, I was really impressed by just how open and friendly she was with everyone! All good things must come to an end, though, and her staff did eventually find the unlocked door and away they all went again.
I stayed with them for about a half an hour until the rest of the AWA attendees started to show up for the opening of the exhibition hall. In a striking display of competence the organizers actually were able to properly manage the line! As soon as the line got too long, they wrapped it around, repeating this a total of five times. No confusion, no fuss, everything was very professional and the attendees themselves always seemed very willing to comply. Very impressive!
Noon did eventually arrive, and as it did we were all allowed into the exhibition hall. All that I knew about the location of Kikka s booth was that it would be in the far right corner christmas ocean cruise of the hall, so that s were I headed off to, and sure enough, that s were it was.
Now, going into this event I didn t expect a massive number of people to show up, but I did expect a bit of a crowd. Imagine my shock when the only people that showed up at the booth were literally the exact same 15 or so people who were at the front the line plus about five new stragglers and two Japanese wota! I was taken aback a bit. Could this really be everyone who was going to show up?
As for the goods on sale, they had a black and pink t-shirt, a 2L photoset, and the regular edition of her album One for YOU! Now, as for the t-shirts, the black shirt was available only in large and extra large, while the pink was only available in small. This wouldn t have been too bad except for the fact that they were all exclusively in women s cuts, which bummed me out quite a bit. On the plus side, though, the photoset was only $2 which was a great price considering that they normally sell for 500 yen, which is a bit north of $6.50 at the current conversion rate!
So all of us fans bought our goods and more or less just stood around in something that could loosely be considered a line waiting for 1 PM to roll around. Well, it turned out we didn t even have to wait that long as Kikka and her staff arrived about 15 minutes early at 12:45! With little christmas ocean cruise delay, christmas ocean cruise the signing session actually started. Kikka was an absolute blast to meet up close. One of the things that she was doing on that first day was forcing everyone to pinky swear with her that they would stay her fan, which I thought was absolutely adorable.
Considering the relatively low number of people at the signing session (although a few regular con-goers did hop in the line) we all got to loop around several times. While waiting in line on my second pass we saw one of the regular con-goers request a picture with Kikka AND SHE WAS ALLOWED TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH KIKKA.
Let, that sink in a bit. Two shots. We got to take two shots with Kikka. It still seems crazy. christmas ocean cruise Two shots with an idol o

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I made it out over lunch today for some more practice.  I was planning to stay in the practice area after departing runway 17, but traffic in the pattern picked up a good bit.  Since the other traffic was a good bit faster than the ole Tri-Pacer, I decided to fly up to Paulding County for a touch and go or two.  After bouncing in a landing bargain tours and travels up there, I returned to West Georgia for a few more landings.
Back at KCTJ, I floated so much on the first landing that I decided to go around.  I really need to nail down the roundout and stop floating up and down.  I may be carrying just a bit too much airspeed at that point in the landing.After the go around, I made one more trip around the pattern and made a pretty decent normal landing to a full stop.  I was running long on my lunch break, so I decided to call it for the day.  I need to get back out there soon and work nothing but takeoffs and landings normal, short and soft.  Overall it was a gorgeous day to fly and it was great being back in the air.  For the first time that I can recall in my flight training, bargain tours and travels I didn t record video during my flight.  It was nice not having to setup all of the cameras, but I still wish I had the footage to review.  Next time.  I did however shoot a few more photos than I have during more recent flights:
Todd, I find that If I don t practice landings constantly, I always end up getting rusty. You seem to have your airwork down pat, and still working on landings. I thing I m the opposite. I really need to go out and practice mauvers. I think the Tri-Pacer is probably bargain tours and travels harder to land than a C-150. So I think you are doing great!
Latest Tweets @PilotConway I use Zenfolio. It and SmugMug are both great (paid) solutions October 27, 2012 - 12:01 PM @markisflying Wow, that is awesome! Nice craftsmanship and I love the verse. October 26, 2012 - 9:21 AM @mshell018 Not sure how new they are, but I noticed the Tri-Pacer shirt when I was on the site last week. Great looking shirts! October 25, 2012 - 3:38 PM Recent Posts

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