Your last flight on flightaware

Ken Ibold said:
Dude, I'm gonna be down there March 17-24. Well, I'll be at our place on Siesta Key which is a <20 minute drive from Venice. If it overlaps, let's get together.
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Sounds great. We'll like take most of the week off so we can fly it a good bit with a Mooney savy CFI, so we get home without busting out butts.

We will have a CFI along for the ride home, of course.
 
smigaldi said:
Not for me. The closest airport for both Bradenton and Siesta Key is the Sarasota airport. I could take off circle and land ;)

But if we do something if you fly into SRQ I could easily pick you up as I would be driving past it to Siesta Key area.
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I think Bill's plane is at Venice.

Skip the fly-in (OMG, did I just type that!) and opt for beers and the porch at Turtle Beach Pub. Best blackened grouper sandwiches around.
 
Ken Ibold said:
I think Bill's plane is at Venice.
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Yes, and we'll likely be flying into PIE on Allegiant Air (the seats are sooo cheap), we flew them in December to see the plane, it was something like $185 round trip for TWO people. Cheap cheap.

Anyone know if there is a shuttle that runs from PIE down to VNC? (we will be trying to con the broker into picking us up) That, or Enterprise car rental one way...
 
Bill Jennings said:
Anyone know if there is a shuttle that runs from PIE down to VNC? (we will be trying to con the broker into picking us up) That, or Enterprise car rental one way...
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Bill,
Let me know your travel dates when you know them. If I'm down there I'll give you a ride.
 
Bill Jennings said:
After looking at the giant GV, I went back and looked at my last little humble flight as recorded by Flightaware:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N4147T

What's yours?
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http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N271G/history/20061231/0055Z/KGRB/KMSN

The previous one was my trip up to GRB, where I shot an ILS to 350 AGL. This one was my return trip, ILS to 800 AGL. The following one is probably the most interesting track... Unfortunately not much of it is there. I did a hold, an ASR approach, and an ILS. It doesn't even look like the pieces of what are there were contiguous portions of the flight.
 
Hey that's cool. Mine (if I selected the correct one) was
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N425JB/history/20070126/1719Z/5T6/KMRF

It was my first gps app to that airport in actual. The weather is rarely down at El Paso but this January had rain, snow, low clouds. A preflight check said I would break out somewhere in the approach. I entered clouds about 1/2 way at 190, and was in it solidly the rest of the way. Controller dropped me to 9000' over the Franklin mountains, then 7. Distance kept clicking down to 3,2, 1 miles where I asked for the approach. Kind of surprised approach, he thought it was almost vfr. I had the gps set up to the only approach listed and he gave me direct an iaf, and climbed me back up. I did the approach, lower and lower, and still no ground, right down to minimums and in the last 50' I made some contact. Driving along at mda I went back into it so I just kept watching the miles count down to the map. About a mile out, it lifted again, so I made it in! The ramp was wet and it had been pssing rain all morning. I felt more accomplished about it all because the autopilot crapped out right when I entered the clouds, never could get it back online.
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http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N277DL

A little diversion for heavy weather over Dyserburg, TN (thank you 396) and a half-ass hold at MSL b/c some bozo didn't cancel his IFR when he got on the ground. With a turn inbound for the ILS to 200' above DH at night. yeeehaw!
 
Lance F said:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N57039/history/20061010/2051Z/KCDW/9A1
Not the most recent, but I like the bladder control challenge.
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Almost as long as my longest flight. Unfortunately, we weren't instrument rated at the time, so no FlightAware. 1c5 to KCTY, about 5:00 in the 182.

To keep with the thread, http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N419AM/history/20070107/1950Z/DPA135009/1C5 is where we had to file in the air because the weather hadn't cleared up as expected, and our plan had expired. That's what happens when Mike, Dr. Bruce, Leslie, Susan and I all get together for lunch!
 
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