This day started with friends and employees seeing me off as I got ready in my hangar and then took off for Oklahoma City.  Two videos were done of this departure. One was the actual take off as it occurred filmed my Michelle on her little camera, the second video was taken by Kenny who added some footage from a previous flight to add a touch of drama and a pilot’s perspective.

Michelle’s video,  Kenny’s video.

As I ran up the engine at the end of the taxiway the tower controllers said, “You do have long range tanks don’t you?” I smiled and said yes and that I was off to fly the North Atlantic…they were impressed. Normally a T182T could not fly the leg distance from Van Nuys to Oklahoma.

This leg of the journey was 1030 nautical miles or 1184 miles. It took me 6 hour 35 minutes to get there. It was a lovely uneventful flight.

I was pooped when I landed so I spent the night and took off in the morning