Craig & Rosie's Weekend Flying (Ferry) Trip

[Rosie]

Hi All,
I'm here in Meridian (MEI), MS with new RV-6A owner Craig Jace who just bought a beautiful RV-6A this Saturday morning (for insurance purposes, he needed a pilot :-) Craig's airborne with the seller right now but we are heading back towards CA shortly, and what better way to have 'flight following' than have all your eyes on us

My original plan was to head to the Dallas-Fort Worth area for an overnight with Martin & Claudia Sutter but the weather there is yucky....so, real-time flight planning has us flying to Grove (GMJ), OK for fuel (and a quick lunch with friends) then to Front Range (FTG), CO to 'beg' an overnight stay from Scott & Deb Mills then into SoCAL on Sunday.

When it comes to weather (as Gary Sobek says), "I'd rather be a live chicken than a dead duck!" so Colorado (and nice Wx along the route), here we come Rosie

Here's the ground track that will show data for another few days;
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/f...Vf1aW0je5WmxsZ

[johnny stick]

Heard you guys talk about SPOT before, but now I see it in action. Pretty cool. Thanks Rosie.

[johnny stick]

Looks like you are flying a great circle route. True? is this direct via GPS?

[Lemmingman]

If I'd known you were going to fly right over my house I would have gone outside and waved.

From Rosie: Thanks Gil...we actually thought of Sam Walton as we flew over

[KleensRV6]

Hey Rosie - Stay clear of clouds and have a good trip back!

From Rosie: Jailbird, thank you for the tip....ah...that's the entire reason we ended up with the Mills....if your gonna' detour, detour to friends

[Ron Lee]

If you are heading southwest to cross the Rockies I may try an intercept. The problem is that the TAF looks iffy for early Sunday.

Remember, clock forward one hour tonight.

930 PM Saturday night. Fog of some sort around KFLY.

[Rosie]

It's pushing near midnight (we time-changed already) and Craig/I are here with the Mills (thank you very much!). The good news is that there are pictures, but the bad news is that Craig did not bring his cable...and it's proprietary connection

Here are a couple of pics that I put together to show our great circle route (that would have taken through some AWFUL weather they were having in Texas). We opted to head northwest towards Scott & Deb's house with a lunch stop in Grove (GMJ), OK with friends Gary and Concha Trippensee (former neighbors from the Rosamond Skypark).

Many thanks to the seller, Josh Glenn, for sending us this picture (plane built by John Furey);


Here's the mileage difference by flying around the weather to stay with friends (with many thanks to Craig for buying the 'detour' fuel ;-)

Great circle route;



Planned Route for Sunday;



Craig and I are planning a 1000 MDT from Front Range (Ron) but not yet sure which way we'll head (La Veta or Wolf Creek Pass). We will take a look at Weathermeister in the morning.

I'll be sure to get some pics up on Sunday night after we get home Rosie

[turbo]

yea wx, you are just trying to rack up some extra hours to catch up to the turbo man. nice going. be safe out there. miss you all.

found an interesting wx site. http://www.stormpulse.com/ head west young man.

[Rosie]

Originally Posted by turbo

yea wx, you are just trying to rack up some extra hours to catch up to the turbo man. nice going. be safe out there. miss you all.

found an interesting wx site. http://www.stormpulse.com/ head west young man.

Cool website Turbo! Here's what we'd of faced Sunday morning trying to leave Dallas (if we'd of even gotten to Dallas yesterday);



Looks much better getting out of the Denver area today;



I'm glad we ended up in the Denver area as we are having (had) a GREAT visit with the Mills Rosie

[Ron Lee]

Looks like clear sailing if you can get around this stuff along the Front Range.

The path FROM MS is worse today than yesterday.