Pick some places you'd like to visit and then see if they
are far enough away. The minimum distances are just that,
minimums. You could go to Oshkosh, straight line and then
come back by a different route. There are good restaurants
on/near many airports. But there also are other
attractions. West Yellowstone is a gateway to Yellowstone
National Park, Glacier National Park, don't miss an
adventure because it is a few miles further away.



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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| Roy Smith wrote:
|
| Matt Whiting wrote:
|
|
| You can't spend $8 on a WAC chart? G Your school
or FBO doesn't
| have one on the wall that you can use for free?
|
| Yes, and yes. However, I was going to do the flight
planning tomorrow
| and I can't get a WAC that quickly (the "local" FBO
doesn't stock them)
| and the FBO is 35 miles away and I'd rather not drive 70
miles with gas
| prices at $3/gallon if I don't have to.
|
|
| Maybe I'm being a little silly here, but I'm thinking a
commercial pilot
| should be up to a higher level of flight planning. Your
boss is going to
| say, "I need to be in XYZ for a 9:00 AM meeting; get me
there". It's your
| job to figure out a good airport that's close to XYZ,
has approaches
| appropriate for the weather, all needed services
available, ground
| transport arranged for, and worked into the schedule,
etc. Nowhere in that
| scenario does "the dog ate my chart" seem like a useful
thing to say.
|
| I don't disagree, but there are two reasons I'm not too
worried about it
| at present.
|
| 1. I just learned I would be able to get next week off on
vacation and
| am trying to get my commercial flight training accelerated
into next
| week as much as possible as I'm taking a masters program
and have only
| one week between semesters. I wasn't planning to fly next
week until a
| couple of days ago.
|
| 2. I have no plans to ever actually fly commercially (I
make way more
| than almost any commercial pilot as an engineering
manager). I'm
| getting the license purely for the challenge and to have
an excuse to
| fly and train. So, I'm probably not "thinking
commercially" because I
| have no plans to fly commercially.
|
|
| Matt