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.
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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
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