Trans-Texas Leg 1: Harlingen to Corpus Christi

[Jakemaster]

Well, I just finished the first leg of my new flight thingy.  I plan on flying around texas, starting in Harlingen and going around the border on a bunch of flights until I wind up back in harlingen.

Right now, I think that I'm gonna stick with the turbo commander, but I might switch planes for one or two legs.

Leg 1: Valley Intl, Harlingen-----> Corpus Christi Intl.  

94nm

Departing harlingen, be back eventually!


A passenger took this pick on departure, I'm gonna make money for fuel by letting people fly on board.


En Route


Well, I tuned Corpus and requested to land 31nm out, got straight in aproach(thank gad!!) But as I neared the airport this mooney request to land 2.5 nm out.  The tower was nice and let me go first, but I got a bit close, just to teach the mooney pilot his lesson.


Parked and secured after a pretty crappy landing, need some more practice in this plane.


Next leg: Corpus Christi-------> Scholes Intl at Galveston

[TSC.]

Great pics Jake,

That Turbo commander looks sweet. Good luck on your round trip, are you using 'real world weather'??

Cheers,

TSC.

[Jakemaster]

no, Im not using real world weather.  Especially because the weather in texas sux right now.  Its been raining here for a week.

[Colonel_M00RE]

Great Plane jake, hope you do well on the trip.

Remember: A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one they let you use the plane again.  ;D

[exnihilo]

Cool, hauling the oil tycoons and ranchers around, eh?  Love the Commander, one of the best planes out there!

Funny, with my work in avionics development (weather radar), we're about to head out to "tornado alley" to do some data collection on thunderstorms (we'll be flying in a Citation), and we could well be doing some real buzzing about Texas in search of that same weather!