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Welcome on Flying Across America
We are two pilots with a light aircraft and a dream: fly from Daytona Beach, FL to Catalina Island, CA and back.
We want to show how aviation creates friendship and solidarity and unites people. We need your help to reach California. Click here to see the different ways you can help us.
Thanks for your support
Jason & Vincent
We want to show how aviation creates friendship and solidarity and unites people. We need your help to reach California. Click here to see the different ways you can help us.
Thanks for your support
Jason & Vincent
24 Responses to “Guestbook”
Jason & Vincent, we wish you all the best. And I hope you’d be taking a lot of pictures and videos on the way, and when you get back you’d share them here with all. Fly safe.
Good luck with the flight. I recently purchased an American Yankee and flew from the Raleigh/Durham, NC. area to Hanford, CA. I am active duty Navy and this was my first plane and flying across the country in my own plane was a goal since my first lesson in 2004. I budgeted $1,000 for fuel, food and lodging and managed to stay under $800. Oh yeah the headwinds through Texas and Arizona were fierce at times, I only saw groundspeeds of 75mph. Would have been nice having another pilot it was just me and a trusty rental Garmin 696 from AirPower, check them out, it proved to be a trusty co-pilot.
You guys Rock! People like doubtful are what’s wrong with the world. People with vision, adventure and a plan are what this world needs!
I’m still trying to get you noticed by the Cessna Pilot’s Association. Wake Up CPA! we’re coming to see you next summer!
Mike
What do I love flying?? Dude, it’s flying! The people, the air, the variety, the chance to isolate my two kids in the back seat by simply pressing the “crew” button. What’s not to love?!
Just wanted to commend you on this amazing opportunity to promote GA throughout the US. Don’t let this one trip be the end of the promotion…continue to promote GA even after the last goal of this trip has been reached.
General aviation is the lifeblood of all aviation. No one is born a commercial pilot. Without General Aviation we’d have nothing in the aviation industry for kids to look forward to, no reason to hang around a hangar watching planes be repaired or reconditioned. I have great childhood and early adult memories of General Aviation and of a retired school teacher taking me up for a ride in her Twin Commanche. We became best friends and I flew with her often, as she gave me unofficial flight lessons in her plane. The “aviation bug” has been with me as long as I can remember, and thanks to people like you and your project, it will be instilled in children and adults all across America! Thanks for taking the time to do this project in behalf of General Aviation!
Set aside the millions of jobs associated with General Aviation, or the amount of commerce the industry enables across the nation and the earth. General Aviation would be valuable if those were the only benefits it brought our society.
But all one needs to do is see the bright eyes of children at a fly-in pancake feed, or witness the sense of accomplishment a friend feels when they solo for the first time, to understand what is perhaps the most important aspect of General Aviation: Community.
Since pilots returning home from World War I first started flying surplus airplanes across the country, buzzing main street before landing in a farmer’s field, airplanes have captured the fascination of people like nothing else quite can.
General Aviation offers something for everyone; from entertainment for non-flyers, to a sense of achievement for aspiring pilots, and transportation or utility for the business person. I’m hard pressed to think of another endeavor which has the ability to bring together a diverse group of people in the way General Aviation does.
Matthew:28:20: Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
DONT FLY TOO HIGH!
As someone much wiser than I once put it, “A mile of highway will take you a mile. A mile of runway will take you anywhere.”. Without that mile of runway for GA pilots, who know how much progress in our world could never have taken place?
Trey, we’re not doing it for pure enjoyment. We do our best to create some buzz, get attention and use it to promote General Aviation. Being a pilot yourself I’m sure you understand why GA needs support. The flight is the tool we need for this purpose.
We also try to promote our partners and patrons. I hope the link you posted in your comment did bring some visitors to your website. I think that we’ve some common goals. Quoting your website: “I’m not out to make money, only to promote my love of flying and to maintain my airplane. I’m always willing to share the cost and the fun.”
I’m sorry I won’t be funding your trip but it’s a good idea though. I am flying from Cleveland to Los Angeles in late July ‘09 in my Cirrus. Then returning in October. I had no idea it was a big deal going across america. I do it for the pure enjoyment, not to find people who will pay for it. Good luck.
This is a great promotion! I ordered a t-shirt and it’s perfect. It’s of great quality and the graphic is wonderful. I would advise ordering the lightest colored shirts, as the map of the USA fades out a on darker colors, but the Cessna shows up just fine.
If you haven’t already, you should reach out to the Civil Air Patrol and AOPA. AOPA can get word out. I am sure CAP Squadrons along the way would love to have you “brief” their cadets.
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Good Luck on Promoting GA….Anyone that is promoting GA needs support…. Very few non pilots still don’t know “what” GA is… I run in to that problem a lot.. You also should think about going to schools… and tell the kids what you are doing..
Dear Doubtful,
You are an idiot, that is all.
Very few if at all are crooks in General Aviation. Its a tight knit group who are very passionate.
Dear “Doubtful”,
your raise a lot of questions, so let me answer each point:
1) So who would be held responsible if u raise the money and then flee instead of actually flying and promoting GA?
If you check the “About us and the flight” page, you’ll find our real names, Jason Schappert and Vincent Lambercy. You’ll also find links to our respective blogs and websites, from which you can find our “real world” coordinates.
2) And what do you mean by ‘promoting GA’? It’s already promoted enough.
You’ll find the answer to this question in the “Goals” page, and later on the blog when we’ll start posting about the events we’re planning. We don’t share your opinion that GA is “promoted enough”. We believe that GA requires all possible support.
3) All you guys are trying to do is to fly for fun on our money and in return we won’t get sheet. Stop deceiving us!
At first, you’re not forced to send us your money. You should really have a look at our “Goals” page. Let me quote it here: “Are we asking you to pay for our flying ? Partly, yes.”. Is that not very clear ? No deception here.
I sincerely hope that you’ll get these answers. Unfortunately, the e-mail address you left with your comment is invalid.
So who would be held responsible if u raise the money and then flee instead of actually flying and promoting GA? And what do you mean by ‘promoting GA’? It’s already promoted enough. Stop cheating on your friends, Jason. All you guys are trying to do is to fly for fun on our money and in return we won’t get sheet. Stop deceiving us!
This is an incredible project! You have some neat products for sale, and the blog posts are looking great! I am going to print out some fliers to distribute in my neighborhood.
Good luck guys, done that trip twice with a PA-32. Wish I had this kind of help.
Cheers.
Thanks for the post on the blog (Plastic Pilot) dreams about: yes, it is this
Best wishes, lots of new friends and enjoy your flight
Sigourney
(Original comment, in German:
Danke für den Beitrag im Blog (PlasticPilot) übers Träumen: ja, so ist das.
Liebe Grüße, viele neue Freunde und viel Spaß beim Flug
Sigourney
(EDHE))
This is very cool!, I am flying a C-150 as a trainer right now so this is close to my heart. I look forward to seeing the progress along the route!
We appreciate this project. Go ahead.
Aviation News team
Wonderful site! I look forward to buying some miles!
Great site and great cause. I look forward to it!
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