LeeDeep
Pre-Flight
Getting excited! First cross country flight is tomorrow morning. Headed up to Alabama for a few stops in Andalusia (79J) then Dothan (KDHN), and then down to Panama City (KECP) and back to Destin (KDTS). If flying it is half as fun as planning it, this is going to be AWESOME! I'm a numbers nerd so this is fun to me, and not sure how i'm going to concentrate on work after all that excitement!
So that being said, I expect to be completely overwhelmed by everything going on, timing checkpoints, keeping up with the radio hand-offs, never mind the fact that this is also going to be my first towered airport landing at DHN. So what advice and/or tips do you guys/gals have for someone to keep it all straight. I've got my knee board ready with the sectional folded perfectly to showcase leg one, and everything I can calculate now, save for fuel, ETE/ETAs, heading calculations, etc until I get a more accurate forecast.
So that being said, I expect to be completely overwhelmed by everything going on, timing checkpoints, keeping up with the radio hand-offs, never mind the fact that this is also going to be my first towered airport landing at DHN. So what advice and/or tips do you guys/gals have for someone to keep it all straight. I've got my knee board ready with the sectional folded perfectly to showcase leg one, and everything I can calculate now, save for fuel, ETE/ETAs, heading calculations, etc until I get a more accurate forecast.