If you’re new to this blog and to our project, let me summarize it in a few words for you: we’re two pilots and will fly from Florida to California and back in a Cessna 150, to promote General Aviation and raise funds with the goal of making a donation to an aviation oriented charity [...]

As Jason recently changed homebase, our flight will no longer start from Ocala, but from nearby Dunnellon airport. The rest of the route is unchanged, we still plan to fly first to Daytona Beach and then all the way to Santa Catalina Island, and back.
Now that my flight out of Frankfurt is booked, we’ll soon [...]

Aviation is not that an expensive hobby, but it still has some costs, including some administrative ones. As I have a European one, I can’t fly as Pilot In Command, unless I get an FAA-issued pilot certificate. This naturally costs time and money. A cheaper option would be to obtain a so-called “validation”. This is [...]

Shortly before changing years, I made a new step towards the realisation of our project, which makes it feel more real… On the 30th of December, I bought my flight ticket from Frankfurt to Jacksonville and back. I will fly on American Airlines, from Frankfurt to Dallas, and from Dallas to Jacksonville, on the 18th [...]

After a very busy month of December, Christmas is finally here. We launched this website one year before the start of our planned flight across America, and last week we crossed the 6 months mark. After a very active initial phase, with the definition of our routes in both directions, and lots of contacts, we [...]

Since we started this website, almost six month ago, we made lots of new friends and found a lot of supporters. This post is to say a special thank you to one of them. Fernando got in touch with us during the early days of the project and was amongst the firsts to buy miles. [...]

Beside our busy lives, we continue to prepare for our flight across America. We had not a lot of time to blog recently, mostly because life happens, but many things are going on behind the scene. We build new relationships, expand our network, collect arguments that we’ll use to promte General Aviation, refine the route, [...]

Now that both our westward and eastward routes are defined it’s time to establish a detailed budget and give you an update on the project:

Vincent will pay his flight ticket from Frankfurt to Orlando using his own funds
Detailed calculations shown we can reduce the flight costs to $70 per hour
The total distance we’ll fly is [...]

Finding our eastwards route was easy, thanks to all our great twitter followers. We obviously plan to spend one day on Catalina Island meeting the team of www.visitcatalinaisland.com. Leaving the island will certainly be hard but the rest of the program is quite appealing:
Santa-Maria, where one of our supporters wants to start a “West Coast [...]

Our flight planning is progressing rapidly. The main stops of our westward route are now defined and we work on organizing promotion activities at our stops. We need all possible support for this, so if you live anywhere near our stops and want to get involved in the project, contact us.
We’ll start from Ocala (OCF), [...]