Flying Across America

Promoting General Aviation

Archive for the Preparation Category

Day -1: Updating plans

One day to go. At this time tomorrow, we’ll be approaching Destin and get ready to meet our friends at DestinJet. And guess what we did yesterday and tomorrow? We spent all day on Florida’s beaches, hit the swimming pool, drink cocktails, and … No forget about that. Apart form the rally and burgers in [...]

Day -2: Join The Raffle and Win Big by Supporting GA!

We said a lot over the last days about giveaways and benefits for our patrons. The time has come now to say more…

That’s Over $1,200 Worth Of Prizes! Act Now! Each Mile You Buy Enters You To Win!

Giveaways:

Learn to fly kit, courtesy of Cessna
3 months of free service on ForeFlight Mobile (US only)
One shirt from [...]

Day -4: speed is alive

We don’t know if the T’s and P’s are in the green, but speed is definitely alive and rising. The traffic on our blog in increasing - by the way, if you’re a new visitor check the links on top of the page to learn more - and we receive and increasing number of mails [...]

Day -6: Oh, these differences…

There are many differences between flying in Europe and in the USA. We have experience in both. Or to formulate that slightly differently, each of us has experience with one continent. Communication during flight preparation and in the cockpit will certainly be interesting…
Different cultures, different standards, different ways of flying… Our highly international crew will [...]

Day -7: New west coast route: Chino - Catalina - Whiteman - Santa-Maria

The last days have been full of new contacts. More and more aviation enthusiasts get in touch with us, buy miles, and invite us for stops. We want to meet as many of you as possible and this lead us to change our plan for the west coast. The new plan is as follow:

1st of [...]

Day -8: Last week-end at home

Our flight will start in 8 days from now, but Vincent will leave Frankfurt for Jacksonville and then Ocala on next Friday. The flight will land at 10pm in Jacksonville, and after one year spent developing this project together, we’ll finally meet “for real”.
On Saturday the 19th, we hold our first meeting in Dunnellon - [...]

Day -9: Flexible planing

“There will be a large part of improvisation in this project.” These words seem to be our leitmotiv at this moment. 9 days before starting our flight across America, from Florida to California and back, many questions remain unanswered. The mention in AOPA Online generated good reactions and lots of new contacts.
Light aviation is highly [...]

Day - 11: Around the clock

Today was one of these days where 24 hours seems to go by in a snap. I started my day shortly before 5am UTC (that’s about 7am local time in Germany, and 1am on the US east coast) and found couple of mails - 4 of them actually - that were sent during the European [...]

Day -12: More help for us and more gifts for you

The world is small… Just after writing yesterday’s post about press releases, I sent a draft of the one I prepared for our stop in Baton Rouge to John, who is coordinating our stop there. And what did he tell me? His fiancĂ©e Katy (by the way, congrats on getting engaged) has some experience with [...]

Day -13: The subtle art of writing press releases

Our project to fly across America is all about aviation and promoting it, but there was no flying involved so far. The flying will start soon, but before reaching this phase of the project, we have to carry a lot of various activities to make this project a success. And most of them have have [...]