Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:06 pm
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This thread has been a trip down memory lane as I have had many a happy holiday flying a Piper Arrow III from ADP out of Brackett Field, many people on here will remember that Arrow but alas, sadly, ADP went belly up a number of years ago. One of my most memorable would have been Grand Canyon and Sedona in a day, seven hours flying in total but what a great day out and was accompanied by the late Keef and his wife. Wonderful memories.
Last time flying out of San Diego back in 2010 (N2525Y - definitely felt like a 160 having an asthma attack), had my IPC signed off the previous day. Wanted to take a trip up the coast to Santa Barbara, took one look at the sectionals and LA terminal charts and thought ah heck, too much hard work, lets file IFR. The preferred routing from Gillespie to Santa Barbara took me directly over LAX at 6,000' with airliners on departure being held at 4,000' until clear of me. All in glorious VMC. Wonderful!
California, Nevada, Arizona are all of my favorite areas to fly around, been to Florida a fair few times (I got my FAA CPL/IR in Naples) but once you've done Florida there isn't really much to entice you back. Unless it is the Sun 'n' Fun at Lakeland in Spring. I've yet to get to one of those, maybe one day plus Jack Browns Seaplane Base down the road for a ASES add-on during the same trip of course.
Definitely starting to think of how to approach the subject with my better half... I still owe her a ranch holiday with her friends that she hasn't managed to go on yet!