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CASTLE PINES
Volume 9, Number 12 The Voice of the 80108 Community December 2017
Need caption – an overview of the entire story, not just what is featured in the picture ... although there should be mention at the end what is pictured above ... Need caption – an overview of the entire story, not just what is featured in the picture ... although there should be mention at the end what is pictured above ...
Need caption – an overview of the entire story, not just what is featured in the picture ... although there should be mention at the end what is pictured above ...
Welcome to the ight club
By Daniel Williams; photos courtesy of Aspen Flying Club
In her work at Aspen Flying Club (AFC), Castle Pines resident Carissa Mulstay often meets with people when they sign in to y. She said some days it can be like working at a Starbucks with such a steady ow of people milling in all day, showing up for their ight. As she would greet the pilots for sign in, Mulstay began to notice an interesting trend.
“I would look at their membership information, and I kept seeing the same thing over and over again – 80108, 80108, 80108, 80108.”
One day she discovered a longtime neighbor was a regular member who ew weekly at AFC. “I’d been his neighbor for years and years and had no idea.” And there were others, too; friends, and friends of friends in Castle Pines who were living out their dreams of ight in private.
It was almost like they had made a secret pact, like in that famous scene from the movie “Fight Club,” when Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) stands up and tells
the group, “The rst rule of Fight Club is – you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!”
Although, in the case of AFC, people were talking about it – at least they were in certain circles. Grace Beall, a 2017 graduate of Rock Canyon High School, learned about the club from a friend of her dad’s who had a teenager learning to y at AFC. One day, her dad’s friend o ered to take Grace ying.
“We took o from Kelly Airpark in Elbert,” said Beall, who had dreamed about one day becoming a Life Flight helicopter pilot or the pilot of a private jet, but had not yet gotten serious about it. “That ight really sparked my interest. We ew into Centennial Airport and had breakfast and then ew back. It was such an amazing experience. I knew after that I wanted to start training.”
(Continued on page 42)
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