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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Nov 20, 2006
Description:
What's a SeaRey pilot to do on a clear November day but go flying? I headed down the James River to visit a friend who lives on its south bank, just downstream from Bermuda Hundred.
The James was muddy today where it joins the cleaner Appomattox. City Point is at the right. Colonial Jamestown (400 years old in 2007) is about 25 nautical miles to the east southeast; Chesapeake Bay, 50; the Atlantic Ocean, 65; and Bermuda, 685--all on a straight line from here.
Date Taken:
Nov 20, 2006
Place Taken:
Central Virginia
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Dan Nickens - Nov 21,2006
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Hmmm....sounds like you have been doing a bit of flight planning, Don?
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Don Maxwell - Nov 21,2006
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Dan, I think that trip would require mid-air refueling. And a <I>very </I>reliable GPS.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Kenneth Leonard - Nov 21,2006
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You know Don, with a pusher, the mid-air refueling isn't an impossibility. Put the receptical poking out the nose deck or the wing tip and drag a drogue behind a C-182. Or just land on the lee shore of a 1000' supertanker and have them <br />offload .000000001% of thier high test.
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Don Maxwell - Nov 22,2006
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Ken, I can just imagine filing for Bermuda International: 'ETE: 9:20. Fuel on board 4:36. Alternates: None.'
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Don Maxwell - Nov 22,2006
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It was worth a year's AOPA dues just to see what their Real-Time Flight Planner did with a trip to Bermuda in my SeaRey, with that blue line describing the great circle route out into the ocean. Figuring in today's weather, it shows--well, here's the nav log, with some amusing numbers:<P><img src="inline/20091-Graphic_11_22_2006_11_04_22_AM.jpg" alt="Graphic_11_22_2006 11_04_22 AM"><!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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