Another Cross-Country In The Books
I woke up early this morning (Saturday) to be at the airport by around 7am to fly to Granbury, TX for a fly-in pancake breakfast they have the last Saturday of every month at their airport. For a $3.00 donation, it's all the pancakes and sausage you can eat. So, I got out to the plane and did the pre-flight check, and was joined shortly there after by Robert, who came with me.
The flight out took about an 1 hour, 20 minutes because of a headwind just about the entire trip there. The total distance was 98 nautical miles because we had to fly around the DFW Class Bravo shelf, so, our route of flight was McKinney to Mesquite, to Lancaster, to Midloathian/Waxahachie to Granbury.
The city is nestled nicely against a really pretty lake (Lake Granbury) and seems like a nice little town. The airport is nice and the people there were friendly. We landed without too many problems (having a GPS/Transponder that displays traffic came in handy) and parked the plane on the grass in-field just off the parallel taxiway and had some good and an inexpensive food.
At around 10am, we got back in the plane and headed back the way we came and stopped at Mesquite Airport for some cheap AVgas and headed back to McKinney, arriving 15 minutes ahead of schedule aided this time by a tailwind.
... and here's a list of the places I've landed.
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