1900 miles!!! 1900 miles!!! 1900 miles in 1998 sounds like a winner of a story to me. gene
Tom Laird-McConnell wrote: > Hey wait, I did that this last summer! (1900 miles each way to Illinois just > me in my little 'ol coupe.) Are you telling me I picked the wrong year to do > it in! <grin> > > I have to agree with the "it's pretty easy" assessment. It isn't any harder > then flying around the patch, although I sure paid close attention to my > fuel burn rates around the mountains! > > -Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of V. Childs > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 2:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A 2000 mi Trip > > I think everyone who has a Ercoupe should go on a 2000 mi trip in > the year 2000. Out 2000 and back 2000. "YES" a 4000 mi. trip. "OH" > what stories we could tell are kids and grandkids. " In the year 2000 I > went on a 2000 mi trip by myself and my Ercoupe". I would like you to > go alone. Just you and your airplane. (your plane needs a trip like > this once in awhile, it gets tired of the same old hanger and > airports). Go real light, one little bag. I want you to navigate by > going down the super highways. Use your radios as little as possible. > Get a good tape player and headsets and listen to the songs you like. > "Paint your wagon" is a good tape. Remember the song "Where are we > going I don't know, when will we get there I'm not certain, ALL I KNOW > IS I AM ON MY WAY" Thats it!!! You got it!!! Just you and your > airplane crossing the country, stopping in small towns and airports. > Take time to talk & listen to people, that way you won't get to > lonely. If you hit bad weather just sit it out. One day two days, who > cares, you have nowhere to be. Alot of you will say "But I don't have > the money" Get the money!!! Borrow it, try begging, sell your > MicoSoft stock, work, marry someone with money, put it on a credit > card, "oh my god take it out of the bank". Just get it!!! > A lot of you will say "But I don't have that much time". ( it > will take a whole week or two ). Get the time!!! Make the time, trade > the time, quit your job, get a new wife or husband. Just make sure > you "GO". Some of you may think "but I'm not that good of a pilot" > You are WRONG!!! I have over 10,000 hours in a small airplanes, over > 7000 in Ercoupes and have flown all over this great country. You are > ALL better pilots than me!! I am not that good of pilot. Most of my > flying time is flying down roads till the weather gets bad and landing. > You all have better training than me, can do dead recking better, ADF, > VOR, and that new "thing of a majigger" you guys are always talking > about. "OH" GPS. I don't even have radios in my planes. And you > ALL have better airplanes than me. > Don't be afraid of the mountains out West. Just cross them > when you have good weather. Fly down the super highways, they go where > the passes are anyway and make good strips in you need one. On clear > days out West you have over 150 mi visibilty out there!! When I fly > from IL to Las Vegas I go down old Rt.66, the highest I have to go is > 9500' at Flagstaff, AZ. When I go to Reno, NV I fly down Rt. 80, the > highest I have to go is 11,500 just east of Salt Lake City. Plan your > gas stops every two to two and a half hours. (that way if you have > higher head winds you'll have lots of fuel). I think I'm going to go to > that Burningman fly-in Aug. 30- Sept 7, 2000. (www.burningman.com) > It's 70 mi North of Reno, NV. They mark out for a 100' X 4000' airstrip > on the clay desert (its as smooth as pavement). You can land there and > camp right by your plane. They get like 20,000 people from all over the > world to build a 40' wooden man and than they burn it!!! "WHY" do they > get 20,000 from all over the world to build a 40' wooden man in the > middle of nowhere and burn it? Beats the heck out of me!!! I just > thought it was somewhere to go!!! gene
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