Boston to Roanoke to Nashville

If your looking for aviation related "stuff", you might checkout the TN
Aviation Museum at the Sevierville, TN (GKT) airport. Pretty nice museum
located directly off the ramp, but not real big. Lots of good WWII planes
and such. Worth the $14 and a couple of hours.

Also, further east at the Tullahoma, TN (THA) airport, there is the
Staggerwing Beech Museum.


"Marc" wrote in message
news:nxhub.176207$275.567345@attbi_s53...
I am thinking of taking a week or so and fly south. Would appreciate any
recommendations of places to go, esp. interesting scenary or historical
interest (that is near an airport.....).

Right now my vague plans include..


.. a ride down the Hudson Valley Corridor past Manhattan.
.. fly down the NJ coast, perhaps stop at Cape May
.. stay along the coast, east of Washington DC
.. stop at Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay?
.. west past Charlottesville, stop at Luray Caverns.... (yes I know it is
tacky, been there twice by car)
.. aerial tour of Shenandoah Valley

"Marc" wrote in message news:nxhub.176207$275.567345@attbi_s53...
I am thinking of taking a week or so and fly south. Would appreciate any
recommendations of places to go, esp. interesting scenary or historical
interest (that is near an airport.....).

Right now my vague plans include..


.. a ride down the Hudson Valley Corridor past Manhattan.
.. fly down the NJ coast, perhaps stop at Cape May
.. stay along the coast, east of Washington DC
.. stop at Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay?
.. west past Charlottesville, stop at Luray Caverns.... (yes I know it is
tacky, been there twice by car)
.. aerial tour of Shenandoah Valley

Excellent routing. Nothing beats flying along the coast on a clear
day. There are many interesting airports along the sho Bader, Cape
May, Ocean City, MD, Accomack, etc... In Maryland, don't miss the
crab cakes. In Virginia, it' the ham. One thing about Tangier though:
please read the comments on AirNav and be careful if you land a Mooney
there. About the Appalachians, they are not very high, but they can
bite you if you don't give them due respect. Something about rising
terrain and lowering ceiling. Have a nice trip.

Wildwood Airport at Cape May is not a particualarly nice stop. The area
around it is kinda neat, I agree, but the airport is a pain. Poor line
service, poor transient facilities.

Ocean City, MD (26N) is almost on the boardwalk It has a nice little eatery
and is a nice stop.

Jamestown/Williamsburg (JGG) is not far from Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown,
etc. They used to have car rental on the field but I don't believe that's
the case anymore. The last time we flew down there we landed at PHF (Patrick
Henry Intl., aka Newport News/Williamsburg Intl.) because we were staying for
a week and it was easier and cheaper to get a car there.

Dave Reinhart


Marc wrote:

I am thinking of taking a week or so and fly south. Would appreciate any
recommendations of places to go, esp. interesting scenary or historical
interest (that is near an airport.....).

Right now my vague plans include..

.. a ride down the Hudson Valley Corridor past Manhattan.
.. fly down the NJ coast, perhaps stop at Cape May
.. stay along the coast, east of Washington DC
.. stop at Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay?
.. west past Charlottesville, stop at Luray Caverns.... (yes I know it is
tacky, been there twice by car)
.. aerial tour of Shenandoah Valley

"David Reinhart" wrote in message ...

Ocean City, MD (26N) is almost on the boardwalk It has a nice little eatery
and is a nice stop.

You mean Ocean City, NJ. Ocean City, MD (OXB) has no restaurant and it's
further than most people want to walk from the beach.

Yep, right. Got my cities mixed up. At least the ocean's the same!

Dave Reinhart


Ron Natalie wrote:

"David Reinhart" wrote in message ...

Ocean City, MD (26N) is almost on the boardwalk It has a nice little eatery
and is a nice stop.

You mean Ocean City, NJ. Ocean City, MD (OXB) has no restaurant and it's
further than most people want to walk from the beach.

this would be high on my priority list of stops. i'd use phf
("new-willy"), spend a day in colonial wms'burg, and go to
"nick's seafood pavilion" in yorktown for supper.

mho,

g_a


David Reinhart wrote in message ...
Wildwood Airport at Cape May is not a particualarly nice stop. The area
around it is kinda neat, I agree, but the airport is a pain. Poor line
service, poor transient facilities.

Ocean City, MD (26N) is almost on the boardwalk It has a nice little eatery
and is a nice stop.

Jamestown/Williamsburg (JGG) is not far from Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown,
etc. They used to have car rental on the field but I don't believe that's
the case anymore. The last time we flew down there we landed at PHF (Patrick
Henry Intl., aka Newport News/Williamsburg Intl.) because we were staying for
a week and it was easier and cheaper to get a car there.

Dave Reinhart


Marc wrote:

I am thinking of taking a week or so and fly south. Would appreciate any
recommendations of places to go, esp. interesting scenary or historical
interest (that is near an airport.....).

Right now my vague plans include..

.. a ride down the Hudson Valley Corridor past Manhattan.
.. fly down the NJ coast, perhaps stop at Cape May
.. stay along the coast, east of Washington DC
.. stop at Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay?
.. west past Charlottesville, stop at Luray Caverns.... (yes I know it is
tacky, been there twice by car)
.. aerial tour of Shenandoah Valley

"Marc" wrote in message news:nxhub.176207$275.567345@attbi_s53...


Thanks to everyone for their comments. Actually I was surprised to see
my own post, I had not completed it, and must have pushed the wrong
button, intending to save it as draft. Hope I don't do that while
flying.

I am still pouring over sectional charts plotting my route. My current
plan is to fly a direct line Boston - Harrisburg, PA - Charlotte, WV
-- Nashville (actually Murfreesboro). This will keep me to the west
of the Appalachia. On the return I will head due east to Roanoke and
then meander over to the coast for the return trip. I gather from
several people's comments that turbulance can be a problem when
overflying the Appalchia. I am looking at flying to Bristol/Tri-Cities
and then following I-81 NE to Roanoke to bring me over the mountains.
Any recommendations for this or alternate route?

I notice that my route from Harrisburg - Charleston brings me over a
section of West Virginia where there seems to be almost nothing. Not
exactly nothing, but almost nothing ... very few towns and almost no
airports in an area of about 2,500 square miles between Clarksburg, WV
(CKB) and Charleston, WV (CRW). One airport, Braxton Co (48I), in the
middle. It wasn't until I started flying until I realized there are
lots of very unpopulated areas of the country, even in the East.

-Marc

"m. lamphier" wrote:

I am looking at flying to Bristol/Tri-Cities
and then following I-81 NE to Roanoke to bring me over the mountains.

I've done that route through several times. It's usually great. Be prepared to
avoid the Bristol class-D; they have a habit of refusing to talk to transient
VFR aircraft. IMO, avoiding to the west is the best route. The area around
Wytheville is frequently IMC near ground level. ROA controllers are friendly
and professional.

My route from Knoxville is usually direct to Bristol, then ROA, then SHD, where
I stop for fuel. I then head to the Linden VOR near FRR, turn towards N67, and
head home from there. You would want to run a bit further north than N67. That
course takes me through (or under) the Dulles class-B and south of the Camp
David zone.

If you're IFR, then you'll have more leeway than I.

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can
be learned no other way.