Lancaster to Hyannis MA
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22 June 2007



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General
I arrived back at Lancaster on the morning of Friday 22nd June after a nightmare journey from Houston. Continental Airlines managed to lose all my baggage, including my flight bag with all my navigation planning, charts, Jeppensen Airways Manual, logbooks, registration and maintenance paperwok for N238JG, and my survival suit. The next leg of the journey was going to be delayed unless I could recover my baggage and equipment, so I waited at the baggage carousel at Newark Airport to meet every flight arriving from Houston between 4pm Thursday afternoon and 2:30am Friday morning when eventually my luggage tumbled onto the carousel from another flight!
 
When I arrived at Lancaster Avionics I was met by Todd Adams and shown the work they had done on N238JG. It was really first class! The CDI and installation of my portable Garmin 296 on the panel looked like factory fits. They had also made a very nice job of installing the Satellite Phone in the armrest. Subsequent use of the systems over the nex few days showed that everything worked as well as it looked!



After a few hours loading my equipment into N238JG, updating the Navigation Databases and re-fuelling, I was ready for departure. There was a forecast of thunderstorms over Massachusetts and Connecticut in the afternoon but with plenty of diversion options available to me in the North East US, I filed an IFR flight plan to Hyannis along the route that I had planned in advance, and was airborne by 1520. A combination of not having flown N238JG for 6 weeks and my late night searching for baggage at Newark combined to make me feel very rusty and “behind the aircraft”. Fortunately the building thunderstorms turned out to be North of my route. I could hear airliners on the radio calling for clearance to take avoiding action, and the sky to the north was quite black, but my route remained in the clear. 
 

My landing at Hyannis was probably the worst I have done in N238JG! I parked her at Cape Cod Aviation, the local FBO, apologised to her for my awful landing and caught a taxi to the Radisson Hotel right by the airport for some much needed sleep.

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Here are the details of today’s flight for other pilots and people interested in the details:
 
Departure Airport:        Lancaster PA (KLNS)
Departue & Handling: Lancaster Avionics. A Cirrus apprvoved Avionics service centre rather than a conventional FBO. I was really happy with the work they did on N238JG. Well recommended.
Avgas Price:                US$4.60 / US Gallon paid by Visa.
Detailed Route:            East coast USA is busy airspace, and for the first time on the trip so far I was not cleared as filed! Actual route cleared: KLNS Runway 31– V93 – LVZ – LHY - V58 – HFD – V167 - JEWIT – Direct KHYA - Visual APPCH RWY 33 KHYA. The route was subseqently further modifed once airborne with lots of vectoring round other traffic.
En Route Altitude:        9000ft
Flight Time:                 2 Hour 10 Minutes
Arrival Airport:             Hyannis Barnstable Airport (KHYA)
Arrival & Handling:      Air Cape Cod, 110 Mary Dunn Way, Hyannis, MA 02601
Tel:       508-771-5257
Fax:      508-771-5726
 



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Quiz:  
Answer to yesterday’s Quiz: N238JG has flown a total of 25.5 Hours up to the time of arrival in Lancaster (25.5 Flying Hours and 36.2 hours Total on the “Hobbs Meter”)
Today’s Quiz:       Today we had warnings of Thunderstorms along the route to Hyannis. Why are thunderstorms dangerous to small aeroplanes? (Answer on the next Daily Diary!)