48 states in 48 days

[MeekRN]

11 Jan 2008. 12:00 Departed runway 3, circled back around to the east now heading inland 13nm for Garberville.
11 Jan 2008 14:20 Low altitude flight over the lake Ruth, before heading up to Murray Field in Eureka California for a seafood dinner.
11 Jan 2008 17:00 Dinner was good, now off to Crater Lake during the sunset, then off to Portland for the night.

[MeekRN]

12 Jan 2008 08:00 Departed Portland (TTD), temperature just above freezing, headed northeast for Mt. St. Helens (55S).
12 Jan 2008 10:30 Low altitude flight by Mt. St. Helens (55S).
12 Jan 2008 14:00 Grand Coulee dam (3W7) and a quick lunch. With no facilities, its back in the air and heading east to Montana.

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/day02of48.jpg

[MeekRN]

13 Jan 2008 09:00 Departed Helena (KHLN) Runway 9 turned south and off to (KIDA). Will fly over Idaho National Laboratory where I learned how to operate a nuclear reactor (S1W) back when I was going through my navy training to serve aboard USS Spadefish ssn-668.
13 Jan 2008 11:15 Departed Idaho falls heading east to (KCOD) to go hiking in Yellowstone with a friend.
13 Jan 2008 12:00 Flying over Harrison Ford

[MeekRN]

14 Jan 2008 07:00 Up in the air for a few trips around Devils Tower, then headed up to North Dakota.
14 Jan 2008 11:45 A short hike around the area and lunch at Bowman Airport (BPP).
14 Jan 2008 18:00 Headed down to Mt. Rushmore in SW South Dakota, but all flights are being restricted for some strange reason. Back to Rapid City for dinner and a good night sleep.

[Minte]

Looks like a fun trip,what plane are you flying?

[RIDGE57]

Neat trip. My first trip was simply flying to and landing in all 48 States. My next trip was flying to and landing at 49 state capitols (AK). Now my current trip is flying to the 50 busiest airports, starting with 50 and working my way down to #1. I'm having to layover at some airports enroute on this trip though. I'm flying in a Lear 45.

[MeekRN]

i wanted to fly around the world, but the only plane i find i can do it in is a jet, which i realistically could never do. Piston planes would require far too many refuelings, and several 4 to 6 hour high altitude flights, and trying to stay real, thats now realistic for me on a simulator. some legs i would have to put the plane at a slow pace at a high altitude, and go to bed and wake up 6 hours later before i ran out of fuel and still have no airport within range.

So i chose a fast piston driven plane and am sticking to 2 to 3 hour legs, which is about the most i can fly, based on my girl friends bladder, she refuses to fly wearing a diaper, she will only wear one behind closed doors.

[Anxyous]

I thought you were flying the P-51?

[MeekRN]

im not flying this


im flying this

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/ivp_inset_lrg.jpg

[MeekRN]

15 Jan 2008 09:00 Departed (KRAP) runway 14 for Nebraska. 11:00 on final for (KIBM), I was going to take a picture facing west of the Rocky Mountains prior to landing, however.
15 Jan 2008 13:20 In the air again about 50 miles north of (KDDC) a storm is near, will have to make an ILS approach, I choose to try a DME arc from the POKPE intercept. I have VOR 1 set to the Localizer freq of 111.7, and VOR2 set for 108.2, and will fly to the 269 radial which is 14 miles from the DDC VOR. At 4600 feet, when I reach the 315 radial, I will turn towards the airport runway heading of 146 deg. And fly down the glide slope as per the DDC ILS RWY14 plate.
15 Jan 2008 17:00 Dinner was nice. Headed south to (KTUL)for the evening.

[lunitic_8]

hey can you stop by Houston and land at my local airport T41 in La Porte, Texas

[MeekRN]

sure, but i will have to hit it on my way back, im going to hit Texarkana where i was born also, but not till i head back west.

In microsoft streets and trips i selected an airport in each state, and picked my moms house (northern califonia) as my start point, and my house (arizona) as my end point, and choose optimize, and it took about 30 minutes to find the shortest path (driving) that included all 48 points.

then i looked at each point and picked a better airport that had something significant as opposed to the shortest distance.

here is yoru airport plate in the mean time
http://flightaware.com/resources/airpor ... /RNAV+(GPS)+RWY+30/pdf

Here is my anticipated path

[MeekRN]

16 Jan 2008 08:00 Leaving Oklahoma City west for Texarkana Texas KTXK to visit my birthplace. Upon finding the vacant lot where my house once was, I headed off with my girlfriend to go kayaking.
16 Jan 2008 12:15 Up in the air headed north to fly over Arkansas Nuclear One where a friend of mine works to meet for a late lunch KRUE.
16 Jan 2008 17:00 Lunch was great and it turns out he has purchased a lot at Holley Mountain Airpark 2A2. Left my GF with his wife to so some shopping, while we flew out to look at his future home. He doesn

[lunitic_8]

awesome! cant wait when you post a pic of it;D good luck and happy flying