Flying Across America

Promoting General Aviation

Archive for the Preparation Category

Budget update

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 [...]

Our eastwards route

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 [...]

Westward route defined, working on the program…

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), [...]

What you get for your money

So we will promote General Aviation and its values and need your help for this. But how? Why should you sponsor us? What will you get in return? Here are your answers.
The message we pass is made of four GA values: Friendship and solidarity - Self-development - Service - Fun. You can read more about [...]

Route update, media reports an 4th of July

We decided to fly south of the Rocky Mountains but you are the ones defining our exact route. We stop where we are invited and we really look forward to spend time pleading for General Aviation and talking with aviation fans. Each stop is the opportunity to show our support to the local aviation community [...]

1st stop: Destin, FL - Meet us by DestinJet

We found our first stop: We’ve been invited by the guys at DestinJet, the premier FBO at Destin, on the Florida panhandle. With their brand new 6,000 sq ft executive terminal and state of the art facilities for passengers and crew, Destin Jet combines the Glory Days of aviation with every latest technology and service. [...]