Hurricane (1L8), UT

Flight of 1.4 hour. Refueled. Done for day. Flew 6.5 hours and 1431 km (773 nm).

No pilot lounge here. But there was an air conditioned hut with vending machines and a phone. Used a taxi to take me to and from the Travelodge.

Today was a long hot day, I was kept busy avoiding the myriad of military operating areas down here. The easy ones let you fly under or over. The nasty ones are in the mountains and go from the ground to the stratosphere.

Fortunately my instrument panel shows these areas both horizontally and vertically and warns if I am about to do something that merits me an F16 escort to the nearest air force base. Resulted in some impromptu circling to climb to get to 10000 feet to clear some mountains because military space occupied all the easy passes.

Planning a later start and more leisurely day tomorrow with only two stops.Read more