"Jack Allison" wrote in message
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RST Engineering wrote:

If we departed from RHV, we could top off at Grass Valley and go from
there.

You could, but I suspect you'd like to fly efficiently. If you throttled
back to fly with me at 110 knots, you'd practically be on the back side of
your power curve. My intent was to be an hour ahead of you on departure,
you'd catch me somewhere around Rock Springs or Rawlins, and then you'd beat
me into Alliance by half an hour. If you stopped twice for gas (Wells and
Rawlins) we'd probably be to Alliance at the same time AND be closer to each
other on the whole trip. I flight plan at least a 45 minute window for a
gas stop.

I think if we stay at 11.5 eastbound we ought to be in contact with one
another for over a hundred miles in any direction...let me do some quick
math presuming average terrain is 5K, then we are 5.5k above it, doubling
that to 11 and taking the square root gives us 104 miles and doubling that
because we are both at the same altitude gives us a plane to plane radio
horizon of a little over 200 miles. Not a problem.

I'm going to call the folks at Alliance this week to check on cargas and
tell them we plan RON on Friday and to please hold onto the airport vehicle
for us. I'd sort of like to get there early enough to take a trip out to
Autohenge about ten miles west of Alliance.

How many of your chairs are going to have butts in them?




Despite planning three hour legs, there have been times where
it's pushed closer to four hours. I'll play around with some flight
planning options for the stops you mentioned and see how the numbers look.
Man, 100LL less than $3.00? Flying to OSH is going to be down right
cheap...er, sort of :-) 100ll at LHM is $3.42

I think Jay was saying that autogas in IOW is somewhere around a buck-ninety
a gallon.




I'll drop you an e-mail as plans develop next week

Naah...let's keep it on the ng. Maybe we can rustle up another convoy-er or
two. Will you have your instrument ticket by that time?

Jim