Both this summer and both in our arrow.
SUS-ASN-BHM-SPG-CSG-SUS
821 nm each way. around 16 hours total around six hours actual and 3 approaches. Terrible headwinds Usually around 35 knots and lots of diverting around storms. We were forced to stay the night in Birmingham on the way down because of a wall of level 4 to 5 storms that developed streatching accross the whole Florida panhandle and about 60 miles into the Atlantic. Had to fly out about 5 miles into the Atlantic around St. Augustine on the return flight to get around another storm system. Albert Whited(SPG) on Tampa Bay is one of the coolest airports I have ever flown into.
SUS-2G2-8G6-TEB-AGC-SUS
776 miles each way 14.5 hours 5 hours of actual 4 instrument approaches(two GPS to minimums). Stopped at 2G2 on a trip from St. Louis to NYC. They were out of gas and we only had about 1hr and 15 minutes of gas left flew to 8G6(about 10 miles away) to get gas and continued on. flew either through or over the top overcast until we passed Dayton, OH on our return trip.
Anybody that has the oppertunity to take a long cross country, I recommend it. It was an a great experience to have to deal with drastic changes in weather from what was forcasted when we left, and to deal with changes in clearances that were very common on legs I flew along the east coast, but do not experience much here in the midwest. I fly in fairly busy airspace being based in STL and flying through the STL, ORD, and CVG areas many times but it does not compare with New York Center and Approach, Atlanta Center and Approach, and JAX center