The total solar eclipse that will take place across the U.S. on August 21 is having a significant impact on general aviation. In Oregon, GA airports in the path of totality already are reporting that they are fully booked up for the event. Pilots will be camping out with their airplanes, beer gardens are planned and car rentals are hard to find and expensive. "We actually are getting requests from people down in California, Idaho, Washington, people flying in to go see the eclipse here," Ron Peters, who manages the fuel facility at Salem Airport, in Oregon, told KHOU News. "We're the first major airport in the line of totality." One San Francisco area flying club told AVweb that more than half of their 50 airplanes already are scheduled to be in Oregon or Idaho for the celestial event.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/news/solar-eclipse-affects-general-aviation