Do you fly in your own neighborhood?

How complicated is it to fly to another country, as opposed to staying within
the U.S.?

The usual answer, it depends.
It ranges from easy to impossible.

-Kees.

RN,

And yes, you lead a *very* sheltered life.


Hey, it's Iowa ;-)

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

("Jim Logajan" wrote)
Mark my words.

With what color?


Green?

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/green.htm
"It's Not Easy Being Green" (midi)

Frog ...green ...Ms Maniac X... Frog ...Paris

Get it? Get it? Pretty good, huh?

No? I banish myself to the airport for the afternoon, then.


Mont-Black

Maybe it's a matter of number of hours in type?
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
Jay Honeck writes:

"Only"???

If I were going to buy my own 707, I'd make sure I could fly it as PIC.

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If you fly in the US, you probably know you'll need passports for
flights returning from Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas. It's been a
while, but some years ago you just put "Notify Customs" on your flight
plan.

I have three stories about the Bahamas. In the first case, after
clearing customs in probably Hollywood FL and stopping for a cup of
coffee before returning to MA, I was approached by a guy who noticed
my Mooney had a MA Department of Aviation decal on its fin. "You from
Boston?" he asked, and I told him not quite, I'd be landing at KBED.
He made an offer. He had 200 pounds of delicate electronics he needed
to get to Boston, and if I'd take them, I could keep 10 pounds for
myself.

I declined. I mean, what would I have done with 10 pounds of powered
electronics?

The second case involved a return from Grand Bahama. We cleared
customs, then watched a family of 4, including two small kids, taxi up
in their Cherokee 6. They went into the office to talk with the custom
guys, and I noticed another agent come out with a dog who began
sniffing around the 6 and then he went crazy. A hit! Buy the time I
departed that airplane was having service panels taken off.

One final story. I was on Grand Bahama, decided to go to Nassau. They
like those flights done under IFR. About 50 miles out the Bahama
version of ATC told me there were some thunderstorms over Nassau, and
they told me to loiter.

I was over an interesting island and noticed a grass landing strip,
plenty long enough for the Mooney. I did the usual thing, dirtied up
the airplane, flew low along it, dragging the strip, checking it out.
It looked good. Swung around into a conventional cross wind, bent it
around to downwind, things looked good.

Base, then a half mile final, full flaps, all set for a soft field
landing, when some guys waving what looked like shotguns stepped onto
the runway. I didn't think they were waving 'come on down.' Throttle
forward, gear up, I bled off the flaps and opened the cowl and away we
went.

I guess that might have been some sort of Fed Ex distribution center
and they were expecting traffic. I mean, what else could it have
been?

Never had anything as interesting as that returning from Canada.






On Feb 13, 2:55 am, wrote:
How complicated is it to fly to another country, as opposed to staying within
the U.S.?

The usual answer, it depends.
It ranges from easy to impossible.

-Kees.

Tony writes:

The second case involved a return from Grand Bahama. We cleared
customs, then watched a family of 4, including two small kids, taxi up
in their Cherokee 6. They went into the office to talk with the custom
guys, and I noticed another agent come out with a dog who began
sniffing around the 6 and then he went crazy. A hit! Buy the time I
departed that airplane was having service panels taken off.

One wonders if it might have simply been a matter of leaving the aircraft
unattended abroad.

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On Feb 12, 9:08 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
When you fly VFR for pleasure, do you prefer to limit your flying to the area
around your home base, where you know the geography and airspaces and
navigation points, or do you prefer to fly to many different places that
you've never seen before?

It seems like it would be a trade-off between seeing the same things again and
again but being able to plan a flight easily (since you'd know almost
everything by heart after a while), and seeing completely new things at the
expense of having to work out a detailed flight plan and following it so that
you don't get lost. A cross between adventure and convenient comfort.

A constraint unique to the real world is the need to physically get the plane
from airport to airport. If it's 200 nm to your destination, you'll need to
fly 200 nm back at some point. Fortunately that is not an issue in
simulation, although the serious simmer forces himself to start at the same
airport at which he landed during the previous flight.

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Taking off and landing on the street in front of my house is illegal,
so no, I don't fly in my own neighborhood...