Port of EntryThe Port of Entry is a Burning Man village and home to the Black Rock City International Airport, the Black Rock Travel Agency, the Phoenix Bar & Lounge, and FlyByNite Camp. The Airport is also the jumping off point for Burning Sky (a theme camp for performance skydiving), and a launching point (Lake Lahontan Harbor) for land sailors. |
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2008July 28, 2008 Mandatory reading for pilots flying to Black Rock City: This information is vital to aviation safety at Burning Man. Please read, study, and print.
A 2008 GoogleEarth diagram covering the airport, the perimeter fence, and suggested approaches is also available and highly recommended: *If your browser opens the .kmz (GoogleEarth) as .zip, open the .zip file and run the embedded doc.kml to launch GoogleEarth Read and study the information listed above for the safety of you, your passengers, your fellow aviators, and the entire event community. Recommended procedures have changed from last year. Early arrivals are by pre-authorization only. You must have your name in the computer, requested, approved, stamped, and inspected or you aren't getting in early. Theme camp set-up crews approved for with early arrival must have their bar-code pass. There are no tickets for sale at the event this year. All arrivals must have a ticket in hand or available at will-call. Don’t even think about leaving your ticket at home. No night operations. No night takeoffs, no night landings. The Airport is closed at night and the official definition is from the end of civil twilight. Landing 5 minutes before the end of civil twilight is very dangerous. It's best to land no later than 1/2 hour before sunset. The playa is in shadow from the mountains long before sunset, and depth perception is even more difficult than in full sun. The nearby hot springs (Trego, Frog, etc.) are closed to Burning Man participants. Bring your own tie downs. We have hammers and extractors and baggage wagons, but no spare rebar and no spare rope. Bring your own tie downs or park in the transient parking area so that when your plane flips over it doesn't damage someone else's. Check out the Links to the left for current playa weather.
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