How to Land at Gastons Airport (3M0) in Lakeview, Arkansas
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- Gaston’s Fishing Resort is awesome! It’s a great place to eat, stay, fish and relax! A few notes about Gaston’s!
- Its a one way in, one way out airport.
- Landing only on 24
- Depart only on 06
- They have 100LL fuel to sell
- They have local airport pick up from BPK and FLP
- Get a T-Shirt or Sticker that says “I landed at Gaston’s!”
- Sunday Brunch is an all time favorite
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Went to Gaston's for Mother's Day brunch and watched the planes. It made me think restaurants with their own airfield must be a thing and I just never heard about it. 😊
Wow - long time since you’ve posted a video!
I know! More to come!
I’ve NEVER had a bad day trout fishing that area. Even as a non pilot (but I come from a family of aviators and know the lingo) I was always curious about that airport. Great video!
Thanks for the video. Brought back fond memories of flying my Cessna 120 into Gastons. 👍👍
Great video, always like watching aircraft landing at Gastons from my Brothers house in the Video at the about 40 second mark with the circle driveway and green roofed outbuilding.
I think I've been there before
Follow this guy and get splattered. Return traffic takes off against landing direction. Hope for but don’t count on radio call. Stay a little high and away from middle of river channel. There is a berm at the end of the runway. Nice strip but it will feel rougher than pavement. Watch your speed as dew in the morning can grease the skids. Look out the windshield and forget about the fancy nav until you clear runway. Lots of trips to this fun place. Maybe one day in 50 years you can reflect as well.
Flown in many times.
Live local.
Drove in Saturday.
Why so low on final?
A true IFR approach: "I follow Roads, Rivers or Railroads". In this case, rivers.
Usually nice to fly directly over the airport to see any other plane movement efore depending and approaching the runway
I'm based at KBPK, right beside Gastons. Please everyone monitor 123.00 on your second radio because, KFLP, KBPK, and the Valley are all on that frequency and for some stupid reason Gaston's on its own frequency and there have been lots of near misses. With that being said, Gastons always fun to land at, but guess since fly over it all the time I take it for granted!
Yes, good point. Here is another benefit of having zoom reserve airspeed rather than Vy on takeoff. Vx or Vy, almost never appropriate even on remote fields like Gastons, is not zoom reserve airspeed. Engine failure or surprise traffic will make the outcome of any maneuver at Vx or Vy in doubt. When low, airspeed and not altitude is life. Also traffic is easier to see and avoid from the lower perch with the sky as background. Maneuvering where horizontal space is limited requires a low altitude point of view rather than a high altitude point of view, mentally as well as physically. Stall here is fatal.
@@jimmydulin928 Yea, and most of the time we gain little altitude and then turn out right and follow the river to gain altitude instead of flying over the hill!! People weigh their planes down there in summer and get in trouble with over weight and have had quite a few incidents there. We always tell people if going be heave just have your passengers shuttle to KBPK about 6 miles up the road and meet them there to pick up and take off on the 5k ft runway!! Gastons always happy to shuttle people.
@@firepilot109 All good points. Down drainage egress, from many years at high DA with low powered and tired engines, has always been default for me. Only once out of the woods, do headings and climbs become considerations.
lol second radio… lolllll
Hey! Long time no see!
Great place, have flown in many times.BTW the approach to final should always be on 24, as ther power lines close to 06.
Roger, and taking off on 06. If it looks like you'll have difficulty clearing the hill, a gentle turn to the right once you're above the trees will put you over the river.
Hi Alan hope you are well and enjoying life long time no see.philip is still interested in learning awesome landing buddy.brilliant little vlog hope to meet you again some day Phil 🍀👍.
Thanks, you too!
I have fished the White at Flippin, downstream of Gaston's , for the last 20+ years. Such a wonderful place.
This is actually close enough to where i live to just hop in the plane, get lunch to go, go home, and my food still be warm. Definitely going to have to try it out.
Great video Al. Making a descending left base (to land to the west) over the river gives us airspeed from potential energy of altitude to prevent stall. Thus a 1 g turn of whatever bank angle. Good energy management.
Since down drainage egress is a major consideration, takeoff to the east seems safer to me even with some tailwind. If we use the soft field takeoff technique, which is actually the best short field technique because of extra free ground effect energy, we can easily make cruise airspeed level in low ground effect before pitch up. Yes, the bluff is high. Zoom reserve airspeed, enough airspeed to be able to maneuver quickly without stall, will enable us to turn over the field where the big wire with lots of flags attaches to the first pole (or second) on the ground after descending the bluff. With Vy over the bluff, the outcome of the maneuver is always in doubt. Down drainage over what we call a "bottom field" in river country, with zoom reserve airspeed (save it by not pitching up immediately), is never in doubt.
Thanks for the video. Making my first trip there tomorrow!
Awesome! How was it!
How was it!?
It was a great experience! I fly a little Cessna 150 so it was slow to come up out of there on takeoff. The view and approach was probably the best landing experience I’ve had so far.
@@jeffobrien1836 Energy management like staying in low ground effect until cruise airspeed (don't let between the trees scare you) is more critical in low powered airplanes. Vx or Vy, never appropriate on long runways, causes the outcome of the maneuver to always be in doubt.
Hey Al, can you post the vid of getting out of there?
Definitely. Next time I’m down there I’ll do it!
Just added this one to the list for the Baron. Thanks Al.
Enjoy it!
Been there many a time in UH-1s or UH-60s!
Great job on the Video! Thanks
Thank you!
Great to see you back on YT!!
Thank you!
Home sweat home!
Well done
Thanks Tom!
Landed there many times
Way to go Al, great video
Glad you enjoyed it Griffin!
It always seems that your first part of the approach is way too tight between those trees
Tailwheel pilots, who are walking the rudder quickly and tightly, bracketing the centerline (big middle between trees in this case), see it more comfortably because they are always ahead of the airplane for longitudinal alignment. Try this trick to feel, actually to be, much more in control. It is like riding a bike or balancing a broom on our hand. Quick, tight, and continuous dynamic proactive rudder movement makes the outcome never in doubt. Watch a crop duster video with a camera pointed at the rudder. He is constantly walking the rudder pedals (the rudder is moving constantly) to exactly drive down a particular crop row (keep the light bar centered when there is no row). Practice on short final to your airport by exactly bracketing the centerline extended and then the centerline when on the surface. With a nose geared airplane, we are just taking the slack out of the cables or push pull tubs to the nose wheel when on the surface. Do not use the steering wheel (aileron) except to set wing for crosswind. Walking the rudder, absolutely not allowing any turn, automatically keeps the wing level (or set in side slip.)