Always great to see you at Oshkosh! You are a real gentleman! Always gracious. God has blessed you with great pilot skills, teaching skills, but your people skills make you the best on-line instructor out there!
At minimum I have a mid-way point, a point just before and just beyond. Most of my flights I try to fly over airports along my route, so even if it’s not one of my “official” alternates I’m always between two airports and here in the southeast there’s a lot of airports (my home airport is KHSV.)
I needed to go to an alternate airport for the first time on my first long solo cross country due to snow. I would say it was great to practice how to change out that location in mid flight, as well as be prepped with the AWOS for that alternate. You never know when you'll need to use it.
One must consider aircraft with longer legs. If airport A to airport B is a four hour leg, and one chooses an alternate at midpoint, then legal IFR fuel requirements could be as much as seven hours of fuel (91.167). Few GA aircraft have seven hours of fuel. Instead, I research and choose one or two “suitable intermediate diverts”. I will continue to flight plan and file an alternate airport that is nearer to my destination.
Makes sense to me my youngest daughter begs for me to take her when I do practice approaches then daddy I have to potty... Blah county traffic forget the low approach change that to full stop
Excellent tip, I've made my alternates close to my destination as well. I'll implement this immediately
Always great to see you at Oshkosh! You are a real gentleman! Always gracious. God has blessed you with great pilot skills, teaching skills, but your people skills make you the best on-line instructor out there!
I will be incorporating this practice into all future cross-country flights. Thanks for the awesome tip!!!
At minimum I have a mid-way point, a point just before and just beyond. Most of my flights I try to fly over airports along my route, so even if it’s not one of my “official” alternates I’m always between two airports and here in the southeast there’s a lot of airports (my home airport is KHSV.)
I needed to go to an alternate airport for the first time on my first long solo cross country due to snow. I would say it was great to practice how to change out that location in mid flight, as well as be prepped with the AWOS for that alternate. You never know when you'll need to use it.
Great presentation. Thanks
Good lesson, thank you 👍
Outstanding strategy, Jason - thanks for the tip!
It just makes sense. 🤨Thanks again Jason.
As a VFR pilot, I only fly when the weather maps show clear skies from Colorado to New Jersey.
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Never thought of it this way… but now I know , greetings from the Netherlands. Rick
One must consider aircraft with longer legs. If airport A to airport B is a four hour leg, and one chooses an alternate at midpoint, then legal IFR fuel requirements could be as much as seven hours of fuel (91.167). Few GA aircraft have seven hours of fuel. Instead, I research and choose one or two “suitable intermediate diverts”. I will continue to flight plan and file an alternate airport that is nearer to my destination.
Yes! Great advice :)
Makes sense to me my youngest daughter begs for me to take her when I do practice approaches then daddy I have to potty... Blah county traffic forget the low approach change that to full stop
I’ll see you at Oshkosh!
Hey Jason hope you’re well, can you tell me what kind of cameras you have in your plane and how many?
Thank you
Tony.
Ever had to use a bottle up there??