The Georgia Jets http://www.georgiajets.org/ flying site is pretty impressive but a long drive from the North Atlanta area.

The property is owned by and was developed by an avid turbine flyer. His F86 in Boeing colors is shown below. It is always nice when you can build a field to fly your turbine and include your flying buddies. The club was formed for mostly turbine flying but they include non-turbine flyers to help support the field maintenance. They have worked out a process for flying non- turbine aircraft in-between turbine flying sessions. Although the day I was there some guy flying a giant gaser of an unknown type got a few moves behind his aircraft and was flying over the parking lot and while he was trying to get control almost fell down. Those kinds of events always make me feel like I may be with someone that doesn’t know what he is doing or shouldn’t be flying. The turbine flyers on the other hand were very much in control of their aircraft and professional.

The turbines are so graceful in flight that it is absolutely stunning. Much like supercharged versions of Tiporare, Blue Angel, etc, type flying. The contrast between the turbines and the prop jobs flying at the same field is so significant that the giant prop jobs I saw there seemed insignificant and somewhat irritating, flopping and buzzing around.

I found them all to be a friendly group and they gladly spent time explaining turbine flying to me. It was well worth the long drive!