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John (Jack) Clark's Web Site
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Date: 8-1-2014
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Number of Hours: 5.50
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Brief Description: Flew First Long Cross Country Flight
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Flew First Long Cross Country Flight to Knoxville, KY. The flight was an attempt to fly up to Connecticut to attend an important birthday party. The weather along the east coast was poor for the flight. Late in the morning, after searching for alternatives, I found the weather adequate if I flew up west of the Smokey Mountains then towards the east through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and into Connecticut. I realized that I was starting later the I wanted to for the long flight. But I would evaluate continuing the flight as I progressed. At the very least, the flight would be a good cross country experience.
The weather was for the most part good but there were several areas of marginal VFR conditions. After 3.0 hours, I had reached Knoxville, Ky. My planned stop was about a half hour beyond Knoxville but I decided to land at Knoxville for fuel. The aircraft still needs to have the fuel guages and the fuel flow monitor readings verified. This will take until sometime in the future after adequate data has been acquired. Until then, I decided to fuel the aircraft after 3 hours of flight.
While approaching Knoxville, I started to loose my moving maps on my GRT displays. I still had maps and plates on my iPad and iPhone, but nothing much beyond the Kentucky border. Thinking the data was corrupt, I reloaded the data onto the thumb drives for each of the GRT Displays while inside the FBO at Knoxville. This was a very slow process. It used up valuable time. By the time I was done, I decided it just was not right to continue on to CT. Especially considering that I'd need to cross the New York Metro Area for the first time and I'd be arriving at the edge of darkness after a long flight. Additionally, the map reload did not improve the map displaying of the GRT EFISs. I thought I had the data for the entire U.S. downloaded from Seattle Avionics. In fact, I only had three States surrounding home base. Without the display maps, the flight just became a bit more complicated. The decision to fly ho
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