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Leg 5 : KRAP – KFSD Leg 5 completed! Weather was, for the most part, clear and calm. Flight was largely uneventful because of the fact that, aside from the Missouri River, there was not much of anything in the way of scenery… just flat scrub and agriculture the whole route. The weather was mostly [...]

Leg 4 : KCPR – KRAP Leg 4 completed! Weather was really nice for once. Although the first part of the trip was boring as heck… nothing but flat desert land as far as the eye could see until I reached my first waypoint at Mendell (ECS VOR). After that flying over the mountains was [...]

Leg 3 : KBTM – KCPR Leg 3 completed. Wow. Talk about a wild ride. I spent the last several days watching the weather up there and not flying the route because I want to fly with real weather. And for the last several days (couple weeks in fact) the weather up in the Montana [...]

Leg 2 : KCOE – KBTM Leg 2 is complete. The flight overall was fairly nice… scattered clouds above Cour D’Ailene. About midway through the flight the clouds above me got really ugly though… I’m glad the layer didn’t descend to my, or lower, altitude. They cleared up before I reached Butte, Montana though. I [...]

Leg 1 : KPSC – KCOE Leg 1 complete. Had some time after putting the baby to bed tonight, so fired up FS9 and setup this flight and flew it. Weather was VFR… but real close. I was pretty sure I was going to have to go IFR about 20 miles away from KCOE, but [...]

I’ve always wanted to fly a “Virtual Tour” of the US, just to say I’ve done it. I finaly decided to dive in and do it… and being the perfectionist I am, decided to set it up as realistically as possible, complete with a full flight plan for each leg, fuel calculations enroute and per [...]