I'm going to fly an Aeronca Champ all over the country. Where should I go? Who wants to meet up?

I am very jealous my friend.. If you're ever around the OMA area lemme know. I hope the craptastic winter weather is easy on you. I've seen three weeks straight with no sun here and 200Ft overcast
 
Today is the start! A bit late already, but I've got no real schedule. The plan is to make it to GCN tonight, if I don't make it that far I'll stay in Laughlin area. Then off to NM and CO, beyond that, I'm just going to see how it goes!

If anyone wants to follow along, I'm going to be doing (or attempting) a blog.

http://aeroncaacrosstheus.blogspot.com/
 
If you're going to be on the East Coast, you should stop at First Flight Airport (KFFA) in Kill Devil Hills on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
This December 17 will be the 110th Anniversary of their historic 1903 flight.
 
Quick update: Currently in Albuquerque NM with a friend, flying up to Santa Fe tomorrow morning. My stops so far have been Bermuda Dunes, Havasu, Grand Canyon, and now Double Eagle. The plane has been doing as well as expected, but it flies as crooked as it taxis. I'll have "blog" updates tomorrow, along with a bunch of pictures on there!
 
Annnd I have another update/pictures on the blog.

http://aeroncaacrosstheus.blogspot.com/

I'm mostly done with Saturday's, I'll get that one finished up tomorrow, and probably get Sunday done soon!

I got up to Santa Fe this morning, 15G21KTS wind, but only 30 degrees off the runway. Plopped the Champ down with a wheel landing and made sure that I taxiied SLOWLY with the properly control movements. I'll be hanging out here, and then heading up to CO on Wednesday to meet up with some JC'ers!
 
Keep the blogs comin'. I, for one, really enjoy reading them. I think you'll find at just about every airport you land at, some guy listenin' to your tales with a twinge of jealousy. It's quite an honor to have such a trip.

It's like watching Flight of Passage as it unfolds! I love it.
 
stormchaser said:
Keep the blogs comin'. I, for one, really enjoy reading them. I think you'll find at just about every airport you land at, some guy listenin' to your tales with a twinge of jealousy. It's quite an honor to have such a trip.

It's like watching Flight of Passage as it unfolds! I love it.
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Thank you! I added one more today, lots of pictures.
 
Gorgeous pics. Great experience. Was that Stefan H. by chance? If so, I used to fly with him for a couple of years...
 
Come to Canada.

You wouldn't be the first international JCer to get a tour of a Canadian ATC facility.

Assuming you're just as cool as @Fencer

This option also includes beer call.
 
KKochan said:
It was! How did you like that? He said their hiring season is in the summer.
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Probably the most enjoyable flying I'll ever get to experience...getting paid to fly a piston ALL OVER the United States. Longest flight was Daytona Beach, to Burbank, California. Simply phenomenal. Pay was great, brotherhood was great, flying was often great.

And then there was the moderate to sev___ turbulence over the San Gabriels, the one-way-out valley flying over the ever-moderately-turbulent Rockies, the sucking on a sometimes finicky oxygen canister at 16,500 for hours at a time, the scud-running in Class G winter, the icing in 172's, the leaking engines, the broken Janitrol heaters, the restricted airspaces...all single pilot.

Shoot, now that I put it like that...yeah, it was AMAZING.
 
stormchaser said:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Probably the most enjoyable flying I'll ever get to experience...getting paid to fly a piston ALL OVER the United States. Longest flight was Daytona Beach, to Burbank, California. Simply phenomenal. Pay was great, brotherhood was great, flying was often great.

And then there was the moderate to sev___ turbulence over the San Gabriels, the one-way-out valley flying over the ever-moderately-turbulent Rockies, the sucking on a sometimes finicky oxygen canister at 16,500 for hours at a time, the scud-running in Class G winter, the icing in 172's, the leaking engines, the broken Janitrol heaters, the restricted airspaces...all single pilot.

Shoot, now that I put it like that...yeah, it was AMAZING.
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Pretty sure I work for this company and agree its freaking amazing, most of the time.
 
canadian_atc said:
Come to Canada.

You wouldn't be the first international JCer to get a tour of a Canadian ATC facility.

Assuming you're just as cool as @Fencer

This option also includes beer call.
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I got a nice tour of gander oceanic once. The upside was, it was nice to see the other side. The downside was, there was nothing left to do the next two days.
 
gne in prog said:
I got a nice tour of gander oceanic once. The upside was, it was nice to see the other side. The downside was, there was nothing left to do the next two days.
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Thankfully this isn't Gander ;)

That being said it's not Montreal either!
 
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