another pilot and i finally got out for a real cross country flight today (as opposed to the cross town flight last weekend). we flew JYO (leesburg) - CHO (charlottesville) - FCI (chesterfield) - CJR (culpeper) and then back to JYO. we alternated each leg of the flight so that we could pick up the cross country hours (flights greater than 50 miles). it went well but there was turbulence pretty much the entire flight. we also had a DG (directional gyro) fail on the way back but that wasn't much of an issue. i can't imagine how much more difficult and dangerous it was to fly back when GPS wasn't available (or VOR for that matter).
btw, FCI (chesterfield virginia, near richmond) has a very fine airport with an excellent looking cafeteria which was unfortunately closed due to today being easter.
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The cafeteria at Chesterfield is quite good! I highly recommend it. Fried chicken and bbq...
i forgot to mention something about this flight that was another lesson learned. we were unable to get any weather flying to KCJR and attributed it to "their weather must be down". when we got there found out the weather frequency had changed some time ago and was incorrect in the FDA and on the chart. had we payed attention to the NOTAMs that we printed earlier that morning and read all of them we would have seen this:
AWOS 123.875 VICE 120.025. WIE UNTIL UFN. CREATED: 01 NOV 21:00 2007
won't happen again.
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