Hello to all

Am new to this forum and was reading the posts about the possible location of the 2007 flyin, it looks like it has more or less been set for Morris Ill.

I hope I am not posting somethin that has already been mentioned, if so please ignore, but I am a member of the PRA (Popular Rotorcfraft Association ) and the PRA owns the airport at Mentone, Indiana. The PRA holds it's National convention there (most of the time ) and has built up the airport to have camp grounds set up for basic camping and for positions with electric and water for motor homes and campers,(no sewer though, however a septic pump truck comes by ever other day for pump outs, for a small fee) there are permanant showers and restrooms, a permanant concession stand with cooking facilities and a small helio/autogyro museum, there is also a observation tower for convention control and for photography and unicom radio is on field also handheld radios for convention management . It is out in the country though and is somewhat of a fox hunt to find but well worth it, motels are about 13 miles to Rochester In and 13 miles to Warsaw In It is about 3 miles into Mentone, a town of less than 1000. It is basically about 100 miles North of Indianapolis,In and a little East of Hwy 31.

The airport has a asphalt runway facing North and South and has about 12 permanant open face hangars with concrete taxiway in front and is located on a large acerage with mowed grass.

This years convention will be the first week of August and instructors usually arrive about a week early for training but model flying could still be done from the grass or the taxiways, should any one like to come visit this year.

I think that it would be great if someone, or a group could come this year to look over this facility for a possible consideration for next years flyin, I personally feel that a lot of the pilots and prospective pilots could learn a lot from seeing the r/c gyros fly and what it takes to make a good r/c model design, I know I learned a lot in my earlier days of model flying that helped me when I learn to fly the BIG models. (in fact sometimes model flying is more dificult)

If anyone is interested about the possibilities at Mentone, contact Jennifer at the PRA headquarters at 574-353-7227 or go online at www.pra.org .

Tony Stiles

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