TomVal
Well Known Member
Departed Charleston, SC yesterday for 52F. Due to ceilings I wasn't able to depart until 1100L. My goal was to make it to Minden, LA (KMNE) with one fuel stop at Prattville, AL (1A9). During the fuel stop I checked in with Minden if they still had hangar space available. The answer was no. So I decided to ron at Monroe, LA (KMLU).
Day 2 wx was forecasted to have a cold front of TRW's passing through the Dallas area. So today's mission was to get further west and ron short of the moving line of storms. So here I sit in Shreveport, LA (KSHV) in the Hampton Inn getting ready to order a pizzia. The line of TRW's should hit here in a few hours.
Rain is forecasted for tomorrow. I'll probably sit here another day and hopefully get to Dallas on Saturday or Sunday.
This was my first cross-country in my -12. Everything is working well. I've only used the autopilot about 20% of the time due to low altitude turbulence. My trip has been in the 1500 - 4500 ft levels.
My personal highlight was to overfly my USAF flying base Craig AFB, KSEM (now civilian) and then take a photo of the house we rented back in 1970. It brought back great memories.
BTW...as an extension of those memories, I'm having Grady's re-paint the -12 in a T-37 white over blue paint scheme. Kind of plagiarize dr's scheme...sorry dr...but the -12 does resemble a T-37.
Now time to order a pizza.
Day 2 wx was forecasted to have a cold front of TRW's passing through the Dallas area. So today's mission was to get further west and ron short of the moving line of storms. So here I sit in Shreveport, LA (KSHV) in the Hampton Inn getting ready to order a pizzia. The line of TRW's should hit here in a few hours.
Rain is forecasted for tomorrow. I'll probably sit here another day and hopefully get to Dallas on Saturday or Sunday.
This was my first cross-country in my -12. Everything is working well. I've only used the autopilot about 20% of the time due to low altitude turbulence. My trip has been in the 1500 - 4500 ft levels.
My personal highlight was to overfly my USAF flying base Craig AFB, KSEM (now civilian) and then take a photo of the house we rented back in 1970. It brought back great memories.
BTW...as an extension of those memories, I'm having Grady's re-paint the -12 in a T-37 white over blue paint scheme. Kind of plagiarize dr's scheme...sorry dr...but the -12 does resemble a T-37.
Now time to order a pizza.
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