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Noted! No time for that this trip but putting it aside for the future. Nice idea.

OK all, so here is a draft itinerary - let me know what you think. KMSN Madison - 2P2 Washington Island - KSJX Beaver Island (overnight) - KMCD Mackinac Island - KDRM Drummond Island - 4R5 Major Gilbert (overnight) - KDLH Duluth - KGPZ Grand Rapids - KFCM Flying Cloud (overnight) - KMDW Chicago...

Thanks for both of those. Please keep 'em coming.

After last year's epic out of Las Vegas another flying buddy and I have rented a plane for four days just after Oshkosh, out of Madison. We have an Arrow so decent speed, and would appreciate any ideas of cool places to fly for a four day trip. Happy to fly a couple of two hour legs per day...

Affirmative Sir

Flew out of (and into) Sedona a couple of weeks ago. Taking off in a 180HP C172 at MTOW was interesting, but it performed exactly as per the book. With hindsight I would do two things differently. First I would take off on 21 (downhill with a small tailwind) rather than on 03 (into wind but a...

I had not flown in the USA before, apart from when I did my IR in Kissimmee earlier this year. But I had never flown VFR in the US before. though I have flown in Canada. The other pilots had some limited experience of US flying. Most found the ATC the most difficult aspect (the accents and...

We didn't go to Truckee, we stopped at South Lake Tahoe. I do have an instrument rating, but if we had not got into Carlsbad we had a diversion planned to a more inland field. It was a great, great trip though. The only thing we missed was the Grand Canyon, it was such a windy day and with...

Well we made the trip, and just got back. Spectacular flying. We reversed the original route and flew: Day 1 - North Las Vegas - South Lake Tahoe Day 2 - Sacramento - Golden Gate - Monterey Day 3 - morning - Santa Monica - afternoon - over LAX - McClellan Palomar (Catalina didn't...

Your comments and advice noted, Flyhound. This feels like a trip for early starts and morning flights, we will definitely review the itinerary closer to the date.

Brilliant. I had in fact read your trip report but forgot that bit!

Does anyone know if you can fly VFR overhead San Francisco International?

Once again thanks for the comments and discussion, keep them coming. All advice is being well noted and we will revise and adapt our route based on all your feedback. Local advice is so useful to us.

Thanks for the good advice John

Thanks for all the feedback so far. Really useful. Please keep it coming. Yes the plan is to overnight at UT25, we will need to check that the renter will allow it. We're considering reversing the route to leave most of the desert flying till the end. We don't want to be stuck in Tahoe...

OK thanks

Along with a few other British pilots we are planning a 9 day VFR trip out of Las Vegas this summer, from 5th to 13th September. We will be four aircraft, renting 172s and a 182RG, and have a rough outline of a route planned. Day 1 - North Las Vegas - Hoover Dam - Bryce Canyon - Monument...