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700 nm not a long enough cross country in a Cherokee for ya?

So you understand why I wanted to stay where I was. I go out of DFW under the Bravo at 3000 and usually I'm begging to climb. This time it was....wow. I'm gonna stay here for a while.

I know a couple of ZFW controllers....I'm not going to get a guy called in over it. More venting than anything. I even looked up the FAR number and had a "speech" planned when he handed me off. I wussed out and just didn't thank him as I usually do at handoff.

Well, yes, it was argumentative. It ticked me off. I didn't want to argue on the radio with him so I complied and went up to 3,500. His tone told me that if I didn't climb, he'd tell me to squawk VFR. I fly with flight following on anything longer than 40-50 miles. It's a commitment I made...

Ft Worth Center My wife said I should have told him that I had a number for him to copy...

The only place 3,000 feet would NOT be a VFR cruising altitude would be Death Valley where they are below sea level.

You might want to brush up on the regs Except while holding in a holding pattern of 2 minutes or less, or while turning, each person operating an aircraft under VFR in level cruising flight more than 3,000 feet above the surface shall maintain the appropriate altitude or flight level prescribed...

So I'm headed north east from Texas to Illinois last Friday and it was a great day to fly. I'm on FF cruising along at 3,000ft above Oklahoma because it was early, so it was smooth, and I had a 6 knot tailwind. Foreflight was predicting no tailwind at 3,500 and a headwind at 5,500 When...

Another that uses USAA exclusively for personal use. If you have an issue, you get a real live American on the phone Business wise we use a bank 90 minutes away. Everything online or by phone

My Cherokee flown 200 plus hours a year all in doesn't cost that much

By the rule of law, you were a grown man. Whether or not you acted like it (sounds like a big no) that is another story

This is the guy I'm going to use for touch ups https://www.facebook.com/AeroDingir