Montauk Lunch

We flew to Montauk (KMTP) for lunch yesterday. Weather was beautiful. Great visibility and fairly stable air with just some minor light chop from time to time. We made it there in just about 30 minutes which is not bad considering it's a 4+ hour drive.

A call to the UNICOM was made and the active runway was 24. We were told there was a breezy crosswind. Dean had quite a bit of rudder in to compensate. We landed and parked and the woman at the FBO gave us a ride to the beach in a giant pink Chevy Van with the title "Pink Tuna" on the back of it. :)

The beach is actually just over the sand dunes at the end of runway 06. The drive to the beach consists of driving to the runup area of runway 24. There, there's a path through the brush and then up and over the sand dunes. Just as you reach the top of one of the dunes and look back toward the runway, you get the view shown in this picture. The walk is very short. It only takes a few minutes.

We sat on the beach and enjoyed the beautiful day. Even the seaguls were struggling with the wind. It's amazing but you can see them instinctively crab into the wind to get to where they're trying to go.

As we were walking back, a baron buzzed us as it was making its approach to runway 24. It was quite a thrill to be just underneath it. The flight back was uneventful for us but then again...how many people get to fly to the beach on their lunchbreak?