4,000 Miles Across the USA in a T206

Jpax

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Hey JC'ers,

Here are a few of the 959 photos and videos I took after the past week during my flights from Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. As luck would have it, we had headwinds for about 90% of the trip, both east and westbound.



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Our leg to our first destination of Huntsville, Texas.

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ATC pronounced it as "inboard," however, I still argue it is "inbred."

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Arrival at KUTS

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Old Sparky. Said to be the real one, but some say it's a replica. Creepy either way.

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Climbing out of KUTS on our way to the Grand Canyon airport.

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Descending into Clovis, New Mexico to get some of the expensive blue stuff.

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Arriving at KCVN

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W/M in the color field is for Maroon, not Magenta.

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Finally crossing into some terrain!

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...and the colors shift, also!

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Don't wanna fall off from there.

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Not sure which one is cooler, the big rock or the small one?

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Some huge fossilized alien?

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Finally close to GCN after getting bumped around pretty badly for two hours.

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Hazy, but a great view.

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Better than the flatlands of Florida!

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Sun starting to set on the canyon.

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The 'red rocks' name fits well.

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Gotta love a GCN sunset.

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'Oooh-aahh!' point. Nice hike down, strenuous back up.

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Yours truly, king of the world style.

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One hell of a nice sun set.

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Apparently there was terrain around us?

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Climbing out on our way to Sedona.

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Re: 5,000 Miles Across the USA in a T206



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Horrible overview of Sedona airport-- but hey, it was bumpy.

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Arriving at Sedona


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One of the beds in our room in the "French Quarter" at the Adobe Grand Villas.

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Jacuzzi for two ;]

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The attention to detail in the room was incredible.

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Barbed wire makes for good photos...

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The sun going to rest over Sedona

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Fuel stop / leg stretch in New Mexico again...

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Back in Huntsville for the night.

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Pepperoni?


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Our first approach into Gulfport. We'd be returning a few hours later after a failed get-home attempt.

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Our attempt to get back to Florida after diverting to Mississippi for weather. Would have worked nicely but Houston Center wanted to vector us into the storm-- so we returned to GPT.









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Excellent photos, really beautiful. Thanks for sharing these, I'm really jealous.
 
Very nice! What made you take this trip? Was it work or pleasure, or both?
 
Glad everyone enjoyed them, even the bosssman! :D


Very nice! What made you take this trip? Was it work or pleasure, or both?

It was for pleasure-- originally intended to go out to California and land on 16R at Van Nuys, but we ended up in a time crunch with classes starting back up again.
 
awesome bud. great shots. have similar trip planned to get the magical 250 hours. flying from florida to 16R and back. hopefully it will happen.

love the 206 btw.

been to cedar key lately??? thinking of heading down there the end of the month. mini J/C meet?
 
been to cedar key lately??? thinking of heading down there the end of the month. mini J/C meet?

I was going to PM you about this because I hate bumping my own threads, but if we are going to try to do a JC meet, might as well make it public!

But sure, I'm down for that. Usually go on a weekend trip every weekend to somewhere in the Southeast... might as well be CDK! Love that place, been there twice, looking forward to the third time. Gotta say though, I'm fine doing a night departure there, but sure as hell won't do a night landing there. :insane:
 
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