7/12/11-Day Two of Flying

I got 6.9 hours on the plane today-that is a lot of time in a spam can! But it needs to be done to satisfy the FAA requirements before we can take it out of unpopulated areas.

Had some clouds today so we had to spend some time VFR on top of the cloud layers

This little island is the farthest Northwest point of the continental US (excluding Alaska). Go across the channel and you're in Canada

151 knots ground speed converts to 173.8 mph-not too shabby!

How flying in the mountains looks on the GPS

How the mountains look from outside the window