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As the video page has grown, its connection with the hotel has grown less obvious -- and I get an amazing number of emails asking "WHAT is this hotel doing attached to your video webpage?"

That's quite the opposite relationship, really. The video page -- so comprehensive today -- started as a tiny adjunct to our main web site, and initially contained only videos that depicted flying into our aviation theme-suite hotel.  (Which is located next to Iowa City Airport, in Iowa City, Iowa, home of the University of Iowa -- go Hawks!)

Over time, however, friends sent me other interesting videos, and I would add them to the page, mostly for viewing by fellow pilots.  Then, one day back in 2004, a British magazine published our URL in their "cool websites" section, and the whole thing started to take off. 

Next thing I knew, I was receiving video submissions from all over the world!  They are still rolling in at an alarming rate, but I limit what's on this page to videos that meet the following criteria:

• The video must not graphically depict death or injury. This is not a train-wreck site.  I have no interest in appealing to prurient interest by depicting random acts of death and destruction. 
• Viewing the video must give pilots an opportunity to enhance flight safety, or they won't be included.   (Well, okay, I bend that rule a bit on some of the funnier videos...)

To this end, I try to include as much knowledgeable commentary as possible with each video.  I also try to include links to aviation safety websites that may further enhance our knowledge of the accidents depicted.

Finally, we neither buy nor sell videos, but only host them for pilots and aviation enthusiasts to view, with hopes of minimizing accidents in the future.  Please don't ask if we can sell them, or if we can publish them on DVDs, because

(a) We don't own them, and

(b) We're too busy remodeling the hotel to waste any more time on this nonsense! 

Blue skies!

Jay Honeck

Owner/Innkeeper/Webmaster