Flight 60 : Jacksonville to Key West

Date: Friday May 29, 2009
Departure: 07:00 Local Time
Routing: Down the eastern shores of Florida, over the keys to Key West
Aircraft: LIAT Caribbean Air
Altitude: 3,000 feet
Miles: 517 miles
Arrival Stats: 2 hours spot on, 258 mph
Notes: Lots of sand bars, beaches off from the mainland of Florida. Cities to my right, beaches to my left, water below. We recently had a feature FOTM in the Florida Keys (http://www.toomuchfs.com/) so this was still pretty fresh in my mind. Looking forward to the next few legs, hopping down the Caribbean Islands!

Flight 59 : Wiscasset, ME to Jacksonville, FL

Date: Tuesday May 26th, 2009

Departure: 16:55 local time

Routing: Right down the East Coast of USA: Newport - Hartford - New York - Norfolk - Wilmington - Myrtle Beach - Savannah - Jacksonville.

Aircraft: Eastern Airlines Q-400

Altitude: 4,000 feet

Miles: 1,100

Arrival Stats: Arrived after 3.5 hours in the air - just after sunset at 20:27 local time. This equates to 310 mph average - I thought it would have been a bit higher ...

Notes: I was SHOCKED! Wiscasset Maine kept me there two weeks - what a great little place! Anyway, back to flying .... There was certainly more to see and do today - lots of time tuning VORs into the radio! I flew down the eastern seaboard over some better-known cities. Finally I enjoyed the sunset near Savannah, Georgia and just 73 miles later I landed in Jacksonville - Nuclear Powerplant shortly before finals.