Entries with tag "msy"

New Orleans Departure, November-1-2-8-8-Hotel is with you at one thousand for two thousand

Posted on June 27, 2007 at 12:06 AM in 'Flying Lessons' with tags 'flight_lessons, fly_by_knight, flying, n1288h, hdc, msy'

Today Mike and I flew down over the lake to the New Orleans airport, MSY (or Moisant Field, as apparently every other pilot knows it — apparently the name was changed in 2001 and most people still use the old one), to give me a taste of flying into a Class B airport (the busiest classification). I had the option of flying to Baton Rouge instead, but I wanted to try flying into an airport that I had actually arrived at as a commercial passenger. It went surprisingly well. And when I checked my logbook later, it turned out this was my 50th landing. Hey, look at that.

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