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December 28th, 2007, 12:22
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Charlotte, NC
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 |  Whats your longest x-country Whats your longest x-country (NM) in an ASEL? Did you use GPS, Nav Logs, or both?
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December 28th, 2007, 12:26
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: U77
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 | Re: Whats your longest x-country Just shy of Six hours from U77 (Spanish FOrk, UT) to KSBA in a Piper Arrow. Mostly Following I-15 and then VOR to VOR across southern California with Flight Following. Not my longest total in one day, but still the longest continuous sit.
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December 28th, 2007, 12:35
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Utopia
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Either Kinston, NC (KISO) - Olive Branch, MS (KOLV), or Smyrna, TN (KMQY) - Gaithersburg, MD (KGAI). On the first trip, all IFR, all VOR's. On the second, GPS.
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December 28th, 2007, 12:35
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| Old Skool Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Winchestertonfieldville
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country 19.1 hours from KCAK-KMYF in a PA-28 and yes, I did it on one tank of gas. 
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December 28th, 2007, 12:42
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| Old Skool Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: U77
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Quote:
Seriously how did you pull that off? Were you being towed or something?
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December 28th, 2007, 12:47
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| Junior Member  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Centerville UT
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Not too long just doing my commercial req. TWF-PVU in a Katana
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December 28th, 2007, 12:50
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| Old Skool Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Winchestertonfieldville
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Quote:
I refueled three times.
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December 28th, 2007, 12:51
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| Junior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Centerville UT
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Or MER to Bakersfield...
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December 28th, 2007, 12:51
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Alpha Tango Lima
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country 16X - FFC; From a small private airport north of KDFW, to Falcon Field, just south of Atlanta. Straight line is 641. Made two stops. First one in Monticello Arkansas, second one in Tuscaloosa Alabama. 5.5 hours flight time, in a DA20-C1. Ferry flight from old owner, to the flight school. Nav log and GPS. |
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December 28th, 2007, 12:53
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Charlotte, NC
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country The end of march, we have a wedding to go to in NY, so I'm debating if I should think about taking the Archer from KJQF to KEWR or just get airline tickets. The calculator said 3.5 hours for a distance of about 444 NM. I could use the extra time to build for my commercial...  just not sure if my wife is too thrilled about the idea.
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December 28th, 2007, 12:53
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Trollbane
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 | Re: Whats your longest x-country Mine was I think 540 miles from New Orleans to Charleston, SC about 6 hours with one fuel stop in Cessna 172 SP edit: I used Victor Airways one way and GPS direct back. All VFR.
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December 28th, 2007, 12:53
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007
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December 28th, 2007, 13:19
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Los Angeles soon to be phx
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country what did you do that trip in? |
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December 28th, 2007, 13:25
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: The IND SOC / HFY
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country 3I3(Terre Haute, IN) - KFMY (Fort Meyers, FL) in January. Cessna 172, all IFR, lots of IMC, 3 stops each way, no GPS. It was a great trip of about 1700 miles in 2 days of flying. |
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December 28th, 2007, 13:44
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country 5 hours. 2 bananas. 1 bottle of water. 1 map. 0 fuel. I did it in a Schweizer 1-26e. How? Go to www.ssa.org |
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December 28th, 2007, 14:02
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In the sticks
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country 1980-Ferried an AirTractor from Olney Texas(just nw of DFW) out to Walla Walla Washington.Dont remember how long it took,Put about 200 gallons of gas in the hopper Plus the 70 in the wings=about nine hrs. range.No GPS,Just a Atlas.Actually worked really well,This was before all of the airspace stuff.Just stayed on the other side of town from the big airports and all was well.Second was an AG CAT from central Arkansas down to Homestead FloridaJust south of Miami.Same deal except this time no fuel in the hopper. Those were fun trips. FLY SAFE T.C. |
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December 28th, 2007, 14:04
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country i went from DFW area to New Orleans and from the DFW area to Kansas City. Going to Vegas next week. |
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December 28th, 2007, 14:05
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country CGI-ELM (660 Mils) with avg. 20kt Headwind in Citabria, talk about a long day! BTW: 340 miles in 6 hours 57 min in a glider (It was a crappy day). |
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December 28th, 2007, 14:45
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Anchorage
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Quote:
PAMR to PAGK *Anchorage to Gulkana - 137 PAGK to PABI *Gulkana to Delta Junction - 111 PABI to PAFA *Delta Junction to Fairbanks - 74 Got gas in Fairbanks PAFA to PAGA *Fairbanks to Galena - 232 Got fuel in Galena too PAGA to DCK *Galena to Dahl Creek - 132 DCK to PAIK *Dahl Creek to Kiana - 83 Got gas and slept here PAIK to PAGA *Kiana to Galena -160 Topped it off back in Galena PAGA to PAMR *Galena back to Merril - 286 Back home Total - 1215Kts If I remember right it took about 18 or so hours in a 172. The first day I flew for about 14hrs or so, then the second day I flew back home in about 4 hrs. No GPS in that airplane, and I didn't have a nav log, because at each stop I got a new destination.. Just low level pilotage. Most of the trip I was down at about 500' due to the wx. All you do is fly the rivers. | |
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December 28th, 2007, 15:31
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Chattanooga, TN
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Manhattan, KS to Nashville, TN - 508nm staight line distance, 4 hours in a Piper Arrow non-stop. VOR's to navigate. Salina, KS to Smyrna, TN - 556nm SLD, C-172, don't remember the time since we were flying IFR around weather in SE MO, 1-stop, GPS Salina, KS to Grand Forks, ND - 550nm SLD, C172, again, more weather and a stop, GPS |
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December 28th, 2007, 15:43
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| Newbie  Join Date: May 2007 Location: Roseburg, OR
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Mesa, AZ to Roseburg, OR. 800+ NM, 8 hours, 1 stop, Piper Archer III. Some dead reckoning, mostly VOR tracking w/ GPS Never had I needed to pee so bad in my life.
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December 28th, 2007, 17:24
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country PDX-GJT-ADS in a Mooney Acclaim. 6.5 hours total. ADS-FLL in a Mooney Acclaim (3 hours 48 minutes, not over the water either) JQF-CHA-LIT-ADS in a DA-40. 30 kts headwind the whole day = 10 hours in the saddle. ouch. CYXU-PHN-EVV-PNC-ODO in a DA-40. 10 hours in the saddle. all flights completed IFR with V and J airways, GPS, VOR, DME
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December 28th, 2007, 17:28
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Park City, UT
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 | Re: Whats your longest x-country I flew a Cessna 172 from Arlington, TX to Ann Arbor, MI and back via Memphis. It was a long couple of days. The legs between Arlington and Memphis were done with Kellwolf.
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December 28th, 2007, 17:53
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| Re: Whats your longest x-country Quote:
That wouldnt be too bad of a trip. Probably be pretty fun, but Id suggest not even trying to get into EWR. Might look at TEB(although very expensive to park) or MMU(I think....but its morristown, nj--just west of EWR). FArmingdale on Long Island isnt bad either depending on where you are going.
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December 28th, 2007, 18:02
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| Old Skool  | Re: Whats your longest x-country If you go into EWR, plan on arriving in the middle of the night. There are some hefty fees for landing during the day. No matter the winds you'll be landing on 11. You might get 29 if there is a strong west wind. also look at linden NJ (LDJ). Its a small GA airport just under the approach path to the 4s, about 5 miles south of EWR. Other nearby airports include Caldwell (CDW) morristown (mmu) and Teterboro.
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