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Jud_T

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Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« on: May 07, 2012, 08:43:48 AM »
first one gets a beer on me (excluding the rest of my foursome!).  Unfortunately the weather wasn't ideal:

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Cristian

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Re: Today's Quiz- Guess the Aerial Photo
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2012, 08:46:58 AM »
Crystal Downs?

(I live in Amsterdam, so hopefully for you I'm wrong)

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Tom_Doak

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Re: Today's Quiz- Guess the Aerial Photo
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2012, 08:47:59 AM »
Christian:

Very good guess.  He owes you one.
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Jud_T

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Re: Today's Quiz- Guess the Aerial Photo
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2012, 08:50:43 AM »
that was quick.  gotta start snapping some dogtracks instead I guess.   ;)
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Jud_T

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Re: Today's Quiz- Guess the Aerial Photo
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2012, 11:19:09 AM »
a few more pics:









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Brad Isaacs

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2012, 11:37:27 AM »
What was the airplane(Cirrus?) and who was flying it?
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Jud_T

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2012, 11:40:16 AM »
Yes it's a Cirrus and it's my buddy's plane who flew out to meet us.  Believe it or not the two of us flew cross country to Bandon in it last year.  Quite an adventure...
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Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Bill Seitz

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2012, 11:42:15 AM »
Quote from: Brad Isaacs on May 07, 2012, 11:37:27 AM
What was the airplane(Cirrus?) and who was flying it?

The airplane was a Cirrus, and it was being flown by Barry Cohen who had a pretty long weekend of flying.  I believe he did Greenwich, CT to Teterboro, NJ to Ann Arbor, MI to Traverse City.  In between there were 36 holes on Saturday (Kingsley morning, Crystal Downs afternoon), then 18 holes at Kingsley on Sunday before giving us a nice sightseeing trip and heading home.  

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Michael George

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2012, 11:58:18 AM »
Jud - great pics.

I feel a little cheated that this went so fast and I did not have an opportunity to add another win to my total  ;)

Take the plane to Akron.  Great small airport very close to Sharon GC  :)  and Brookside is just 30 minutes down the road.
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Brian_Sleeman

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2012, 11:59:47 AM »
Great shots, thanks for sharing those.  Here's another taken by someone else last fall...

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Barry Cohen

Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2012, 12:10:08 PM »
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N373SR/history/20120506/1830Z/KTVC/KARB

You can see why the photos are a bit hazy, all that "clag" up near Traverse City....had to get in front of that weather quickly or it would have been less fun getting home.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N373SR/history/20120506/2145Z/KARB/KTEB

Nice tailwind on the way home, only a little over 2 hours from Ann Arbor back to drop my buddy off at Teterboro.

The course is even better up close, though I don't relish putting those crazy greens again.  And some of those upwind holes seemed really long, especially the way I was driving yesterday.  Bit of advice to anyone who makes it to Crystal Downs -- avoid "the scabs" at all costs.  That was not time well spent in them!
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Barry Cohen

Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2012, 12:12:57 PM »
Jud, will you or Bill post any of the photos over Kingsley?
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Jud_T

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2012, 12:13:40 PM »
keep your shorts on....
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Bill Seitz

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2012, 12:15:47 PM »
Quote from: Barry Cohen on May 07, 2012, 12:12:57 PM
Jud, will you or Bill post any of the photos over Kingsley?

Have a few up in the thread about the 17th.  I'll try to get some of the others saved and posted today. 
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Bill Seitz

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2012, 01:41:52 PM »
http://youtu.be/oKdB3UrAP64

Short video of the flight above CD.  I believe we were a fair amount higher up for this portion of the trip.  We got a little lower for Kingsley.  And Barry is a great pilot. If you've not been up in a very small plane before, it can be a little tense at first.  But once he starts communicating with the tower in all of that airplane jargon, sounding like he actually knows what he's talking about, it tends to put one at ease. 
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Angela Moser

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2012, 09:31:27 PM »
Well... if you are good in guessing: where's this?

http://www.mosergolf.com/index.php/thoughts/course-reviews

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Ben Sims

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2012, 09:38:58 PM »
Quote from: Angela Moser on May 08, 2012, 09:31:27 PM
Well... if you are good in guessing: where's this?

http://www.mosergolf.com/index.php/thoughts/course-reviews



Come one, give us a difficult one.  Da Vinci would like the aerial of this club very much.

PS--Is that an open cockpit biplane you're strapped into?  So cool.
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RJ_Daley

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2012, 09:53:09 PM »
 ;D  Ben, don't you have some fancy Air Force mapping program you can feed that pic in and I.D. it faster than Google Earth?  ::) ;D 8)
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Ben Sims

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2012, 10:00:20 PM »
Quote from: RJ_Daley on May 08, 2012, 09:53:09 PM
;D  Ben, don't you have some fancy Air Force mapping program you can feed that pic in and I.D. it faster than Google Earth?  ::) ;D 8)

Well, I do know some guys in the U-2 program.  I bet they have some hyper accurate maps of Cypress Point.  In fact, I'm told that the lone cypress in between Pebble and Cypress Point is a waypoint for training missions for the high fliers.
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Angela Moser

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Re: Crystal Downs- Bird's eye view
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2012, 07:38:41 AM »
Ben:
Yes it is an open cockpit, one propeller... did some loopings as well :) good fun!!!
- Just because you know where I've been to...

Anyone else a guess?
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