Planning a cross country flight from California to Texas in a Diamond DA42NG - EP7
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Dictate a listener question from your phone, or send an email. Max talks about the planning he's doing now for a cross country trip from Palo Alto California to the Dallas, Texas area in a Diamond DA42NG. He looks at the weather forecast, the route, altitudes, and the many items that he's bring along for the trip. Best of all, you can follow the trip by following N616SA in flightaware.com, if you're listening to this episode on Friday, April 28.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Max Ruscott from Aviation News Talk, and I'm sure you're surprised to get an extra little episode here, but I thought I would share with you what's going on in my life regarding cross-country planning. |
| 0:13.3 | I've had a couple of trips that two different people have been talking to me about for two to three weeks, and suddenly, boom, both of them came to pass within a couple of minutes of each other this morning, |
| 0:24.3 | about 8 o'clock. |
| 0:25.1 | Started getting messages coming in saying, hey, can you leave tomorrow? |
| 0:28.7 | The trip is on. |
| 0:29.9 | And so I thought I would share with you a little bit about planning these trips that are coming up. |
| 0:35.3 | So I'll be leaving bright and early Friday morning in a Diamond DA 42 to deliver it to Texas. |
| 0:43.0 | And then I will fly commercially from Texas to Phoenix, Arizona, drive to Prescott, and then bring a SR20 from Prescott back to California with a new owner. |
| 0:53.5 | So I thought I would just share with you a little bit of what the planning I'm going through is. |
| 0:57.9 | And just at least for the first leg, it's too far out to know what it's going to look like for the second trip back. |
| 1:04.6 | So that's what I've got in store for you. |
| 1:06.4 | So stand by because, hey, the cross-country planning is next. |
| 1:26.0 | Okay. So stand by because, hey, the cross-country planning is next. Welcome to Aviation News Talk. I'm Max Truscott, but you knew that, right? |
| 1:30.1 | Hey, it's Thursday night. I don't have a whole lot of time to put this episode together, |
| 1:33.6 | so please excuse a few extra ums and Oz that will go along the way. |
| 1:37.7 | I've got to get up bright and early Friday morning to hop into a pretty new Diamond DA42NG. |
| 1:43.7 | Now, you may be familiar of the DA-42 twin-engine aircraft from Diamond. |
| 1:48.4 | The N-G is the jet fuel version, so it just barely sips the fuel. |
| 1:52.8 | It's a little bit faster than the earlier version. |
| 1:55.4 | And looks like we've got about a 1,300-mile trip from Palo Alto to suburban Dallas. And for trips like |
| 2:04.6 | that, typically I end up starting off southeast to Palmdale, which is down in Southern |
| 2:11.4 | California, and then making a left turn to then head by Prescott, Arizona, out through the Albuquerque area, past Lubbock, Texas, |
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