A U.S. Government black ballpoint pin used to equal 200 nm on a high enroute chart. "10 and 1/2 pen lengths so 2100 miles, 300 miles an hour so call it 7 hours. 55k gas on board, 6k an hour so we need 42 plus another 6 reserves.....we're good, let's go."I have fond memories of planning a vnav route with an IP in a podunk Arkansas FBO with a sectional and a highlighter. To the studs, don't be afraid to ask the IP what they want in terms of planning. Work smarter, not harder.
No, it works that way in pilot-land also. The students can request a CCX, but an IP has to want to go. More often it's the IP's that figure out where they want to go and a kid gets assigned.I guess it's different in pilot land in terms of cross countries. In VT-4 I ended up going to St Louis one weekend when an IP walked into the student ready room on Wednesday or so and told me I was going to St Louis that weekend.
This.Go where you want/ can in flight school. Once you get in the fleet, flying from point A to B without doing anything tactical doesn't really count as a cross country, so it won't get approved. That means you don't do XC's very far from home.
This.
In two fleet tours, I never did a single cross country that was not flying somewhere for a det
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No shit sherlock. We repress our happiness/partying around other Marines. Get us on the road and all bets are off.Marines are more fun to go on the road with. I said it.
If you go to Corpus, do the tour de Texas and end up in Austin. I'm sure flying low levels through the Rockies is cool but here's what makes Austin so great... you can fly as many approaches as you want or wind all around on a vnav route and never really have to worry about gas. Fly into Bergstrom at 3-4pm, drive downtown (15 minutes), check-in to your hotel,take a nappregame, and you still have tons of time to eat a good meal and party your face off. Friends can drive up and meet you... bonus points.
"Hey, I'm ENS Dumbass--nice to meet you, too. Oh cool, in your 4th year at UT? Us? No, no, we're just here for the weekend. No, we live in Corpus. Just flew our planes up for the weekend." Hour later, you're in a cab en route to her apartment. Oh yeah, and then there's Saturday...
You can use that same line every time you DRIVE up from corpus on a weekend. Everything you say at the bar doesnt have to be 100% true.