"Michael" wrote in message
om...

Well, that would be the day I would need up to a 125 nm deviation, now
wouldn't it? How often does this actually happen?

I would say this happens about weekly in the spring or summer, sometimes
twice weekly. It is not rare at all.

Your comments about rarely flying 160nm trips are quite relevant and may
explain a difference in our perceptions -- in the Northeast it is not at all
uncommon for a 160nm trip to be 1 hour flying in a 160 knot airplane or 5
hours driving in a car due to traffic issues... granted that is not the case
for the trip from Pittsburgh to Columbus but in the NYC-Boston-DC corridor
this is quite possible. While such short trips can be extremely
convenient uses of an airplane when weather cooperates, you are correct that
there are lots fewer practical deviation options on such a short trip. This
may well be a big difference between general aviation in the Northeast vs.
in Texas.

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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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