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You can buy it on the internet too. Look carefully at the date change prescriptions. The cheapest tickets can only be changed until the first leg has been flown, after which they are fixed. The more expensive ones allow changes of dates even after half the trip has been flown. If you feel...

Of course it is - they are a bit more expensive though. The price - i don't know where you depart from, where you go, neither when nor nor for how long... so cant really have an opinion there :D

I can definitely recommend the FBO i dealt with in Tampa. They have Cessnas too. Also i'd advise you to buy an open airline ticket - what if you fly to somewhere and the weather grounds you for a number of days? This is my trip - i almost got stuck at the very end in...

Nobody can tell you how many days "maximum" you need to stay at the airport. It depends on the FBO policy and your flying profixiency. A BFR is minimum 1h ground school and 1h air time. The 1h air time can double as renter's checkout if the instructor is happy with what s/he sees. In my...

Ok, field recommendation numero uno - I'd totally avoid June. Hurricane season. Even May can be spotty as this year showed. I barely managed to squeeze through and come back from Nassau the other day. Plus if it rains in May, the mosquitos will eat you alive. Seriously. Not even 25% DEET...

Exactly - far easier in terms of paperwork, and to figure out who owns how much to whom. There's a lot of paperwork going on (i never filled this many gendecs - not even when i was moonlighting as a flight dispatcher to pay for my studies...) and you can be sure some of them will go missing...

The policy is either min per day or actual hours flown, whichever is higher. I can attest to Atlas being true to their word and charging me exactly per the agreement we had, no hidden charges or surprise fees. I actually had about an hour less than the minimum (39 something instead of 40), but...

Back in Tampa after 20 days, 40 hours and 4'000 miles!

Yes I rented the Archer from Atlas. They've been very supportive. The battery was about four years old when I got it, and i noticed how a student that rented after my checkride but before my departure cranked it over and over as it was a hot start and it flooded. I reckon it has a tendency to...

When are you leaving? A lot of stuff to share but can't type fast on the iPad as i'm in Santo Domingo now :) If you can wait till June 3rd i'll have a full writeup with dos and donts.

Atlas' policy covers "the Bahamas and the West Indies" so you're good to go. Hereby my trip (almost nearing the end): http://flightlogg.in/openiduser1452/maps.html Only glitch - battery died in Andros (and of course on a barren airstrip) and again in Staniel Cay (did you guess - no FBO or...

Sooooo.... landing in Tampa on th 10th, getting my paperwork from the FAA next morning and the adventure is about to start...

Trust me - when you the end customer pays 15 USD per gallon the market gets wider all of a sudden ^^

Neither have I (dog in the fight i mean - i'd love to have that "problem") but according to tests I've read, done at 11'000ft, the 400 will cruise at 200kts on 24.7gph 50F ROP (max cruise power) while the Mooney will do about 205 (let's round it down to 200) on 21.9 gph.

Well I raised that point because one can't just compare speeds and say "look the cessna is doing +/- mooney speeds despite having fixed gear". It does, but it needs 10% extra HP to achieve that.

The Cessna also runs the engine at 310 HP vs 280 for the Acclaim S.

But that hardly allows any deduction or implication. The Dakota I usually fly stalls at 65 clean (says the AFM) - same as the Pipistrel is supposed to. But you'd be hard pressed to deduct they'll have the same safety record just because they have the same stall speed.

I found the numbers here: http://www.cirruspilots.org/FileStorage/Copa.Content/NtsbDocketFiles/341224.pdf

IAS. One knot lower for CAS. At least that's what the POH says.

SR22 stalls between 68 and 70 with flaps up.