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Whats the longest flight/trip you've made in a light airplane?

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gkrangers

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I'm thinking about EVB-BLM (New Smyrna Beach, FL to Belmar, NJ) and back this weekend.

Probably be close to 9 hours each way.

Would put me near the 200 hour mark.
 
minitour said:
What will you be in?

-mini
Something definitely not approved for flight into known icing. ;)

SP.

Yeah, home for the weekend. I'm going home for Thanksgiving anyway, but hey...I need the time, and I need it quick...and it'll be a cool thing to do. I won't have the money to do it once the time building phase is over. Might as well enjoy it while I can.
 
gkrangers said:
Something definitely not approved for flight into known icing. ;)

SP.

Yeah, home for the weekend. I'm going home for Thanksgiving anyway, but hey...I need the time, and I need it quick...and it'll be a cool thing to do. I won't have the money to do it once the time building phase is over. Might as well enjoy it while I can.

haha yeah it's still doable though...just KNOW (don't guess) where everything is. Give and get PIREPs as much and often as you can...and have a ton of outs because you never know when one or a bunch will close up.

Can you say 61.129(a)4(i)? haha

-mini
 
minitour said:
haha yeah it's still doable though...just KNOW (don't guess) where everything is. Give and get PIREPs as much and often as you can...and have a ton of outs because you never know when one or a bunch will close up.

Can you say 61.129(a)4(i)? haha

-mini
No, I can't, lemme go look it up. :)

I could stay above freezing if I needed too.

0C should be well over 10,000 on Friday and Saturday, up north.
 
gkrangers said:
No, I can't, lemme go look it up. :)

I could stay above freezing if I needed too.

0C should be around 7-8K this weekend, up north.
That's awesome...I wish I had this weekend off instead of last weekend.

Oh well...ya can't win 'em all.

-mini

*edit*
Where you planning fuel stops at?
 
minitour said:
That's awesome...I wish I had this weekend off instead of last weekend.

Oh well...ya can't win 'em all.

-mini

*edit*
Where you planning fuel stops at?
First one will be at KFAY.

Thats the exact halfway mark.

So I'm debating if I should make just that one stop, or make 2 stops and break the flight into thirds.

Breaking the flight into thirds, with ~3 hour legs might be "safer". And more manageable...3 hours in a plane is long enough, much less 4!
 
With another member of flightinfo, I once did a Florida -> Montana -> Michigan -> Florida flight in a Seminole. Took 5 days from start to finish and roughly 37 hours on the hobbs.

The longest day was Florida -> Colorado. Roughly 10 hours of flying. Each leg was 3-4 hours.

Pretty exhausting, make sure you allocate time for lots of rest. Otherwise, have fun! My trip was by far the most fun I've ever had with an airplane.
 

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