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Had a great VFR flying experience with my son Amos this last weekend. We ended up circumnavigating Lake Michigan. Took off from Watertown, WI at 5:30am Friday morning. Flew up thru the tip of Door County and then crossed over to Michigan’s Upper Penninsula via Washington Island and the chain of islands south of Garden Penninsula. Flew on to Manistique while gaining altitude to cross over Beaver Island. Overflew Beaver island and had to swing west over even more water to dodge rain off the left wing. This meant nearly 40 miles over water! Dropped down into Charlevoix to fuel up and then headed south to our destination of Big Rapids, MI. Stayed (2) nights in BR to catch the annual airshow and hop family rides.
Departed Big Rapids at 6:00am Sunday morning and headed south to have breakfast and top up the nose tank at Charlotte, MI. From there we dodged Kalamazoo airspace, flew southwest thru Indiana, west thru Illinois, skirted the Chicago mode C veil, and turned north to overfly Poplar Grove and then on to Watertown. Flew well over 1000 miles and logged 16.1 hrs including rides. Was really surprised at the number of water towers in northern Indiana and Ill that are unmarked. As we were navigating by map & finger, we had to swing well south of Chicago airspace a couple of times to make sure we were “safe”. That little Continental 65 is one amazing engine! We had two legs of nearly (5) hours nonstop and it never missed a beat. Glad I put the LH wing tank in. I will post a few pics as soon as I can.
Departed Big Rapids at 6:00am Sunday morning and headed south to have breakfast and top up the nose tank at Charlotte, MI. From there we dodged Kalamazoo airspace, flew southwest thru Indiana, west thru Illinois, skirted the Chicago mode C veil, and turned north to overfly Poplar Grove and then on to Watertown. Flew well over 1000 miles and logged 16.1 hrs including rides. Was really surprised at the number of water towers in northern Indiana and Ill that are unmarked. As we were navigating by map & finger, we had to swing well south of Chicago airspace a couple of times to make sure we were “safe”. That little Continental 65 is one amazing engine! We had two legs of nearly (5) hours nonstop and it never missed a beat. Glad I put the LH wing tank in. I will post a few pics as soon as I can.
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