In one month and one day, Vincent will fly across the Atlantic ocean to meet Jason and finally start the flight across America to promote General Aviation. This seems very close now and it’s exciting, but there is still a lot of uncertainty in this project.
The biggest uncertainty factor so far is the funding. It [...]
The goal of our project is to show to the wider possible audience how good General Aviation is for our community and that it is accessible to anybody. If you like this idea you can help us in many ways:
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As time approaches, we refine our flight plan. It’s now stable enough to be revealed, so here we go:
21st of June: Dunnellon -> Daytona Beach -> Destin
22nd of June: Destin -> Baton Rouge
23rd of June: Baton-Rouge -> Houston
25th of June: Houston -> Sweetwater
27th of June: Sweetwater -> El-Paso
29th of June: El-Paso -> Prescott
1st of July: [...]
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, [...]