[AlaskaRC] Field Updates (Groeschel & Elmendorf AFB)

Thu Aug 20 12:49:18 AKDT 2009

Omg! Is this how far they've pushed you guys out because of that noise
ordinance crap that was going on before I left??

-----Original Message-----
From: alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org
[mailto:alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org] On Behalf Of Armand
Marshall
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:44 PM
To: 'ARCS mailing list'
Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] Field Updates (Groeschel & Elmendorf AFB)

It is located at Point MacKenzie (takes about an hour and fifteen
minutes to
drive there from East Anchorage).  For information, field rules, and a
Google map, go to www.alaskarc.org website and look under flying sites.
Do
NOT use Google's driving directions though (unless you want to take a
the
longer route via Big Lake Road).

To drive there from Anchorage.
Drive to Wasilla and take a left at the second traffic light
(Palmer/Wasilla
Hwy).
Take a left on Knik Goose Bay road and go to almost mile 17.
Take a right on Point MacKenzie road and follow it until you reach the
tee
at the end.
Turn right at the tee (and it will transition to a gravel road) and the
road
makes an immediate left.
Follow that until you come to Guernsey road and make a left (the Point
MacKenzie correctional farm is on that corner).
Follow that road until you see Jersey Avenue.  The entrance to our field
is
right across the road from the Jersey Ave. street sign.

~ Armand
armand at nmitsolutions.com

-----Original Message-----
From: alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org
[mailto:alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org] On Behalf Of Williams,
Steven P
Civ USAF PACAF 3 CES/CEOSA
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:26 PM
To: ARCS mailing list
Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] Field Updates (Groeschel & Elmendorf AFB)

Ive been at Osan for the last year and just recently returned back to
the
mother of all states I haven't made it back into flying yet, but where
is
Groeschel field located?

-----Original Message-----
From: alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org
[mailto:alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org] On Behalf Of Armand
Marshall
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:57 PM
To: 'ARCS mailing list'
Subject: [AlaskaRC] Field Updates (Groeschel & Elmendorf AFB)

To all the ARCS members.

Field Updates (Groeschel & Elmendorf AFB)

*****

GROESCHEL FIELD

Thanks to a small but extremely dedicated group of individuals
(including
Wayne Brost), the new permanent runway at Groeschel is just about ready
to
be seeded.  Actual seeding is scheduled for sometime this weekend.  The
hope
is to let the grass get a good foothold before winter which will give it
a
good head start next spring.  In the meantime the 'temporary' runway is
completely usable (approx. 75'x700').

The new runway has been landscaped to the point that it is just about
perfectly flat now.  Believe it or not, the runway is a little over
1,000
feet long (2/10's of a mile)!  And it is about 80 feet wide.  That is
nearly
TWO ACRES of runway!  For comparison, you could place Moffitt's runway
or
Elmendorf's paved runway in the middle of the Groeschel runway and still
have an additional 200 feet of flat runway on both ends.

*****

ELMENDORF AFB FIELD

I went out to the Elmendorf field this morning to take a look around.
It is definitely a great place to fly but I did notice a few things that
need tending to:

1-- The big workbenches have not been fixed or replaced yet.  Mark Ritz
said
that he is on it but he's been very busy.

2-- It is in need of mowing and weed-eating.

3-There is quite a bit of 'junk' that needs to be hauled to the dump
(small
refrigerator, broken down desk, and misc items inside the building
behind
the door, etc.).  The refrigerator and desk are just laying on the
ground
outside the shed.  Probably one good load in a full size pickup truck
would
do it (I don't have a pickup or I'd just grab it myself).

Any expenses (like dump fees, purchase of wood, gas, garbage bags, etc)
can
just be presented to me or any of the club officers and you will be
promptly
reimbursed (keep your receipts).  If you need the funds up front, let me
know and I will get you some money to work with.

We definitely need to keep it presentable out there.

Alaska Radio Control Society

Armand Marshall - Treasurer

Treasurer at AlaskaRC.org

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