Saturday, April 19, 2008

xc and a long day (and a flat!)

a couple of us did a longish xc (for us) yesterday. we took the following route:

KJYO -> JASEN -> CSN -> KOMH -> GVE -> KFVX -> MOL -> KSHD -> CEROL -> AANTS -> HOAGE -> KJYO

(KJYO - leesburg airport, JASEN - intersection, CSN - casanova VOR, KOMH - orange county airport, KFVX - farmville airport, MOL - montibelo VOR, KSHD - shenandoah airport, CEROL/AANTS/HOAGE - intersections)

it was a total of 4-hours in the air and we switched PIC at each landing so we each got about 2-hours total. we had one new event for us. at KSHD we had a flat tire on the main gear as we turned off the runway. a truck had to come out and jack up the plane and take the wheel back in to replace the tire and tube. that was a new one for us. luckily, we were clear of the runway so we were only blocking one of the taxiways. i had thought the tire had looked a little low earlier but we didn't check the pressure, it's time to start
bringing along a pressure gauge i think.
i was pretty tired at the end of the day. the non-PIC had the responsibilities for watching out for traffic, radio tuning, reading checklists and generally helping out so it wasn't much of a rest. we also had some discussion on visibility due to haze while flying KFVX -> MOL -> KSHD. it wasn't bad but coupled with the mountains was enough to keep us paying pretty close attention.




1 comment:

Patti said...

Thanks for stopping by my blog this afternoon!

Not that it’s very obvious, it's on the back of the Washington terminal chart. If you look for it, you will see a 1500 with a westbound arrow beneath it, and a 2000 with an eastbound arrow underneath it. At least, that’s how it’s noted on the map that John was using.

If you're up for a good long fly sometime, Frederick (KFDK), York (????) and Altoona (????) have great restaurants. In fact, the AOPA Fly-In is next weekend at KFDK. There's a fly-in procedures page here: http://www.aopa.org/special/fly-in/procedures.html