David Pearce

I am Planning 2300 mile trip from KOKV to L00, 150 miles per leg, no more than 5 hours flying time a day. I am not the camping type. How do you select airports to land at that have a way to get to and from a hotel, meals, replenish food supplies?

It doesn't look like the US is going to be opening up anytime soon. So what are some ideas for finding an airport where I can get food and drink supplies for the next day's flight, breakfast and dinner meals, transportation to and from the airport to the hotel and food/water replenishment?

Do I just use the AOPA airport info and internet and start calling each airport FBO and local hotels? I see most hotels, if they are not near a major airline serviced airport do not list airport shuttles, and I don't want to get stuck at an airport where the courtesy car is unavailable.

How does everyone else handle multi day trips at multiple airports?

Thanks!

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I am Planning 2300 mile trip from KOKV to L00, 150 miles per leg, no more than 5 hours flying time a day. I am not the camping type. How do you select airports to land at that have a way to get to and from a hotel, meals, replenish food supplies?

It doesn't look like the US is going to be opening up anytime soon. So what are some ideas for finding an airport where I can get food and drink supplies for the next day's flight, breakfast and dinner meals, transportation to and from the ... more

I am Planning 2300 mile trip from KOKV to L00, 150 miles per leg, no more than 5 hours flying time a day. I am not the camping type. How do you select airports to land at that have a way to get to and from a hotel, meals, replenish food supplies?

It doesn't look like the US is going to be opening up anytime soon. So what are some ideas for finding an airport where I can get food and drink supplies for the next day's flight, breakfast and dinner meals, transportation to and from the airport to the hotel and food/water replenishment?

Do I just use the AOPA airport info and internet and start calling each airport FBO and local hotels? I see most hotels, if they are not near a major airline serviced airport do not list airport shuttles, and I don't want to get stuck at an airport where the courtesy car is unavailable.

How does everyone else handle multi day trips at multiple airports?

Thanks!

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I am Planning 2300 mile trip from KOKV to L00, 150 miles per leg, no more than 5 hours flying time a day. I am not the camping type. How do you select airports to land at that have a way to get to and from a hotel, meals, replenish food supplies?

It doesn't look like the US is going to be opening up anytime soon. So what are some ideas for finding an airport where I can get food and drink supplies for the next day's flight, breakfast and dinner meals, transportation to and from the ... more

I am planning a trip from the east coast to the west coast this summer in a PA-11. For various reasons, Gross weight limitations mean I will be flying solo. The PA-11 does not have an electrical system. I will have two handheld air radios and a garmin gpsmap 496 with siriusXM weather service on the garmin. I will have an iPad and iPhone both running foreflight basic. Will the iPad or iPhone be able to get updated weather inflight if I am flying about 3000 ft agl?

I will be using paper maps. Due to my low experience in taildraggers, I worry about landing at airports above my crosswind capability and for the most part have identified alternate airports with different runway directions to get better crosswind components. However, I would need to know the wind direction in flight to decide which airport to land at.

So legality aside, will the cellular data or cellphone service work on an iPad or iPhone in flight for flight safety purposes?

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I am planning a trip from the east coast to the west coast this summer in a PA-11. For various reasons, Gross weight limitations mean I will be flying solo. The PA-11 does not have an electrical system. I will have two handheld air radios and a garmin gpsmap 496 with siriusXM weather service on the garmin. I will have an iPad and iPhone both running foreflight basic. Will the iPad or iPhone be able to get updated weather inflight if I am flying about 3000 ft agl?

I will be using ... more

I am president of a 35 member flying club with 3 pipers. All PA-28. With the CFI market getting smaller and smaller we are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for CFIs in Dubuque, IA. An unofficial requirement is that all CFIs carry CFI insurance since they are not covered under our AVEMCO club policy regardless if they are a member of the club or not. We are getting a lot of push back from the CFI community because they are mostly recent college graduates and it will take a lot of hour instructing to cover their $500 insurance policy and their main goal is to just build hours ASAP and get into an airliner.

What are your thoughts on the insurance requirement? My opinion is the insurance does nothing to protect the club. If the plane gets damaged or pilot gets hurt it is still a club plane and a club pilot with a club insurance policy. The argument being brought up against this is if the instructing CFI had insurance the damages might fall under their policy and then our premiums wouldn't increase after the fact.

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I am president of a 35 member flying club with 3 pipers. All PA-28. With the CFI market getting smaller and smaller we are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for CFIs in Dubuque, IA. An unofficial requirement is that all CFIs carry CFI insurance since they are not covered under our AVEMCO club policy regardless if they are a member of the club or not. We are getting a lot of push back from the CFI community because they are mostly recent college graduates and it will take a ... more

I am planning a transcontinental trip in a PA-11, and after trying both Foreflight and SkyQ, I am sitting in my office planning my trip using paper maps. Neither program had as good of planning tools to get me what I needed. And as far as AOPA talking about the future product being more EFB oriented, just remember, some of us still fly airplanes without electrical systems. I will be using a Garmin 495 for my trip as a backup to my maps. I will have one handheld radio with VOR capability, and I hope to borrow another handheld without VOR for a backup. And my backup backup will be an iPhone and old iPad. 

Whatever you come up with, I need distance rings and fuel range when drawing from poimt A to Point B. Nome of this entering in Point B, I need to be able to drag and choose which airports are in range. That is a Must Have.

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I am planning a transcontinental trip in a PA-11, and after trying both Foreflight and SkyQ, I am sitting in my office planning my trip using paper maps. Neither program had as good of planning tools to get me what I needed. And as far as AOPA talking about the future product being more EFB oriented, just remember, some of us still fly airplanes without electrical systems. I will be using a Garmin 495 for my trip as a backup to my maps. I will have one handheld radio with VOR ... more