MacX on approach to Sarasota FL

[GBroga]

Does anyone here own the X just north of Sarasota? I fly over that boat all the time and it makes me smile when I see it. Then I miss my X..

[Frank C]

Dimitri & TampaMac are both in the Tampa area -
but unless it's built by Boeing, I guess that's too far north of Sarasota?

Dimitri just posted pix of his boat, on a new lift on the canal behind his house ... lucky dog!

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[GBroga]

That is a sweet setup there..... Actually they bring Boeings into Sarasota too. The one I see north of the airport is sitting in the water with direct access to the gulf. looks like it has no bimini or roller furler on it.

[Dimitri-2000X-Tampa]

Thanks guys. Taking off from Sarasota in a jet, you would probably be too high to see much by the time you fly over North Tampa Bay where my Mac is. But my house is pretty much right under the left downwind leg of the 36L approach (or 18R departure and circle back to the North) to Tampa International and I can frequently identify it on take-offs and landings due to the easy orientation of the canals. I just got back from a week in NJ and when I took off on Monday morning, it was a beautiful clear day and we flew right over (slightly adjacent to) my house again...unfortunately, I was sitting right smack at the middle of the wing so I didn't get as good a view as usual.

I believe TampaMAC also has his boat on a lift ..although I think its on a canal that goes out to the Gulf somewhere near New Port Richey if I recall correctly. Again, probably too far North to see from a Sarasota departure. Another interesting coincidence is that we are both pilots too. Although I believe he is an active commercial jet pilot and I am an inactive private pilot who used to fly single engine prop planes....which from stories I've heard from other commercial jet pilots is actually more fun than flying (more like managing the systems of) the commercial big jets.