Cross U.S. Southern Route
Total Flight Time : 26.5 hours
Total Distance : 2722 nm
Average Altitude : 9500 ft.
Max. Altitude : 11,500 ft
Navigation : VFR  w / RADAR following
Average Speed : 100 kts to 105 kts
Feb. 17 / 2004 to Feb. 22 / 2004
Cessna-172 K  N78596
Reid-Hillview . Chino . Gila Bend . Phoenix Goodyear . El Paso . Pecos . Easterwood .
Lafayette . Birmingham . Greensboro . Winchester . Solberg
Route of flights across the U.S.
30 miles south after departure, weather looks OK, left turn cross into inner valley.
At Chino, CA. Morning before take off, 4 miles haze...
After Chino, CA. climb to 11,500 ft, you got some bad looking mountains there.
At Gila Bend, sectional map saids "fuel", but we didn't
see anybody there.  What do you gonna do about it?
Some times I.F.R. (I Follow Roads) is not a bad idea around there...
Steven is checking with his driving GPS map system, we
are doing lot better than driving... Hey, we are doing about
110 kts up here.  But still wish we are in a jet.
What's that?... Must be one of those airport towns down there... Runway
looks good.
Testing the Bluetooth GPS sensor, it works great.
Just took off from El Paso Taxes, The last mountain we will have to cross is
right in front of us, with a 40 miles wide valley... here we are at 9000 ft.
A good sea food place in Lafayette Louisiana.  
As we come close to the north east, snow started to show up.  Here is a ski
place on the mountain.  Doesn't look bad at all
N78596 is at it's new home base, Solberg New Jersey.
Look at that ice still covers the river at Harrisburg Pennsylvania. (That is the
three mile island power plant)  Thanks for the heat in the airplane...
The inside look at this Cessna 172.