"JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:


Good points IF you only fly in that region, and IF you only fly during the
summer or winter.

Which I do. Actually, I fly pretty much all over the Western states
(west
of the Rockies) and I do it year round.


The mid-west weather is very different during each of the four seasons.

If I lived and flew in the midwest a lot (or any coastal area for that
matter) I'd have obtained the rating 20 years ago.

My territory reaches from central Montana on the NW corner, to Souix Falls
on the NE corner, to Arizona and Louisiana on the SE corner.


Going from southwest to mid-west can get rather, shall we say,
interesting?

I've done it quite often in the spring and summer. The midwest weather
that has kept me on the ground also kept the IR pilots of light aircraft
on
the ground.

Not to mention when you HAVE to go, rather than when it'd just be "nice"
to
go.

Unless you're flying a high-end, known-ice, radar equipped bird, that
statement is a bit disturbing. If you HAVE to go somewhere, I'd suggest
a
commercial airline. Their equipment and training is better suited for it.
The average light single is far from an all weather aircraft, especially
during winter when icing is more prevalent.

Hmmm...in the nine years I've been operating, I've cancelled twelve trips,
tops.
Now, winter is our "off season", but conditions the rest of the time can be
waited out or circumnavigated.

And as the real estate market contracts, that means we have to extend our
"reach" even more, so we're looking for something turbine in the near future
to go with our latest, fully tricked out machine (that Newps said was a
"bloated pig").

Try airlines from Cheyenne to Garden City Kansas! "~(
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Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY