Timeline for Could the Wright brothers fly across the US today?
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| S Jun 18, 2021 at 5:44 | history | suggested | Phil Crowther | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected the FAR citation for fuel requirements - it is 91.151 not 91.155
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 23:07 | comment | added | Phil Crowther | I have flown small Cessna airplanes in different directions across the United States starting from Wichita, KS. As I recall, when heading west, there are 3 routes available - the northern, central and southern routes. These generally follow the routes of major highways or railroads. My recollection is that the southern route - which generally follows Hwy 40 past the big crater had the lowest altitude requirements. Of course, finding fuel stops might be a problem. I believe Stephen Coonts also flew this route in his Stearman biplane, the "Cannibal Queen". | |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 4, 2014 at 18:40 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 830 characters in body
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| Jun 4, 2014 at 16:53 | comment | added | Lnafziger | Have you ever tried flying into an airport without a radio? They are normally surprisingly helpful, even at busy (non-class-b) airports! | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 15:54 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @Lnafziger The practical implications of #4 are "Stay the heck away from Class B airspace" but the FAA calls it a "Mode C veil" in the AIM - probably because of places where it's not coterminous with the outer ring of the class B airspace). The no cell phone/airspace coordination restriction is mainly because I fly in an area where you get laughed at if you try such things (and because it's not a hard route to plan if you can land at airports in class D airspace - where's the challenge?! :) | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 15:18 | comment | added | David Wilkins | @ratchetfreak not insensible, given your altitude is going to be a couple of hundred feet above the surface | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | ratchet freak | @DavidWilkins you wait out the wind before you lift off of course | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | David Wilkins | Did you take wind into account? 40 mph = 35 kts. 77.1 nautical miles with a 10 kt headwind...so 25 kts ground speed = ~3.08 hours - you ran out of fuel. | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 12:59 | comment | added | Lnafziger | Since they have a GPS, why no cell phone? The question is about flying it "today"... Also, with such short legs they could just call from the airport to coordinate Eden without one. | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 3:16 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
New route, fixed an over-length leg.
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| Jun 4, 2014 at 3:15 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @MooingDuck I cut it pretty close in at least one spot: The leg between KLCG and KONL is 77.1 nautical miles according to skyvector (it's worth noting however that there are 2 other airports you could stop at to shorten that leg). I also found one error in the route (now corrected in the link above) where I had a leg over the limit for airspace avoidance (around Idaho National Laboratory). I generated this route by hand (I basically picked one east coast airport, one west coast airport, and plotted the great-circle line, then added waypoints as needed to meet the constraints). | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 3:01 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @Gabe I'm not sure what the highest altitude on the route was (not sure if Skyvector can tell you that), but there are definitely a few spots where you'd be near 11,000 or 12,000 feet on this route (you could reroute to avoid them or find more gentle slopes, or alternately move the whole route to the north where there's lower terrain). As noted in simplifying assumption #4 I didn't take climb performance or service ceiling for the 1B into account in this example - it's mainly leg length and airspace avoidance. | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 0:23 | comment | added | Gabe | At what altitude do you have it crossing the continental divide? | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 21:04 | comment | added | Mooing Duck | I'm curious as to the longest leg of that route? How close to the 78.2 nautical mile limit do you cut it? Did you have a program generate the route for you or was it by hand? | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 18:45 | history | edited | Farhan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed typo.
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| Jun 3, 2014 at 17:39 | history | answered | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |