Need GPS Coordinates of 2008 Black Rock City

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Need GPS Coordinates of 2008 Black Rock City

Post by lostinnny » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:22 pm

I am requesting an airspace waiver from the FAA for my art project and I need to know if this year's location for Black Rock City has been chosen yet or when it usually is made, so that I can give the FAA the location of the airspace I will be using.

E-mail me off list if you like at [email protected] (three Ns in there)

Thanks,
Robert

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Post by phil » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:05 pm

A quick search turns up this request for GPS coordinates:
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=24906

See if that helps you.

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Post by Sceloporus » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:18 pm

fucking troll

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Re: Need GPS Coordinates of 2008 Black Rock City

Post by Digital-Dragonfly » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:44 pm

lostinnny wrote:I am requesting an airspace waiver from the FAA for my art project and I need to know if this year's location for Black Rock City has been chosen yet or when it usually is made, so that I can give the FAA the location of the airspace I will be using.

E-mail me off list if you like at [email protected] (three Ns in there)

Thanks,
Rober
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Sceloporus wrote: fucking troll
Sceloporus... and you know this for a fact... how?? :?:
"and your pleasure will likely exceed your misery.".... Ugly Dougly

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sarcasm.. maybe.

Post by Sceloporus » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:18 am

i'm psychic..

/me eats dragonfly
/me craps out half digested dragonfly

i just opened my mouth and you flew right in.. sorry

sorry lostinnnnny didnt mean to curse you.
i dont know what came over me

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Re: sarcasm.. maybe.

Post by Digital-Dragonfly » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:37 am

Sceloporus wrote:i'm psychic.


/me eats dragonfly


only if you catch me...

but that still does not mean your correct...
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Post by TomServo » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:52 am

an art project that requires an FAA waiver...this should be good
anything worth doing is worth overdoing..

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Post by Digital-Dragonfly » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:12 am

TomServo wrote:an art project that requires an FAA waiver...this should be good
my point exactly
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Post by Token » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:30 am

You normally need those when you launch the big rockets.

I just don't see that getting cleared by the BLM with 50K people on the lake bed.

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Post by phil » Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:28 am

Some guy tethered a balloon above his camp in 97 or 98 that was high enough to need a NOTAM. His goal was to attract a lightning strike.

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Re: Need GPS Coordinates of 2008 Black Rock City

Post by Bob » Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:45 am

lostinnny wrote:I am requesting an airspace waiver from the FAA for my art project and I need to know if this year's location for Black Rock City has been chosen yet or when it usually is made, so that I can give the FAA the location of the airspace I will be using.
The contact person answering [email protected] emails can probably give you relevant info on that if you're more specific about your project.

Here's a Google map link if you want to ballpark the coordinates. I doubt if they're very picky, and the precise city location as surveyed may change somewhat at the last minute and differ from what you might be told.
Amazing desert structures & stuff: http://sites.google.com/site/potatotrap/

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trippin' on eplaya

Post by Sceloporus » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:53 pm

i was so high last night I'm the one who should have had an FFA waiver.

my apologies again, to lostinnny (i mistook you for somone else) and eplayans who are trying to help.

i hope you find your GPS Coordinates, and that your project is sucessful!


have a great burn!

Swift

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what? this isn't the FUCK thread...oh.. oops.

Post by Sceloporus » Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:32 pm

FAA waiver rather...

altho i might need a waiver from Future Farmers of America for being full of too much manure.


Spiny Lizard

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Post by phil » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:55 pm

From today's Jack Rabbit Speaks:

-------begin quote----------
The Man burns in just 32 days, folks. Can you feel it yet? OK, try
this: the Golden Spike, the point from which all of Black Rock City is
surveyed and laid out, gets pounded into the playa floor this
Thursday.
------end quote---------

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Post by Token » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:22 am

Yay! Maybe they will update the Burning Blog in few weeks with pictures and a few paragraphs from this event ...










... I am so easily amused by this

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