Following the sun in search of warm

So far the journey has been "cold" looks like we went thru a series of cold front late in the season and temperature never went above 10c in Prague.

Today we are heading south towards the "Med" and  Ibiza. will we see the sun?

First the route was a little bit complicated in the making, the distance and the wind were a concern.

We finally decided to go for the distance and make Menorca our alternate with the hope that the wind would be quarterly and no head.

Loading the route in the G1000 was long but even worst for the Garmin 530

We launch into grey skies and headwind.

On a Pilot point of view, compare t the US be ready to fly a STAR and a SID at every airport, Make yourself familiar to them since the initial altitude is the one on the SID.

Prague was the first airport for me where the controller asked for our transponder to be turn on for the taxing.

Today is Kathy's birthday, since is turning 21

Megan is set for her Pilot license, she ha s the look and the will, she even handle the radio. Go Megan

The TBM is holding his own on the journey, good performance, great range at 40% less fuel burn and even more saving compare to us in the low altitude.

An interesting route over the Alps, we did cross into Germany, Austria, Italy, France and finally Spain, a distance of 925 NM.

Amazing to found out that we change 3 time squawk code on the box and we must have gone thru at least 15 different frequencies , all of them using the 3 digits after the "decimal"

  A lot of knob urning

we are starting to see breaks in the cloud...finally after a crossing with no sights.

Here we go the "Po Valley" in Italy...in the clear

The STAR for Ibiza was not in the G1000 never in the 530.

With our iPad Jep apps we had a review among all the pilots using our company frequencies and we ended up adding the waypoints to the enroute one in the GPS. 

The approach was a visual with radar vector still bringing us on the ILS, they brought us past the IAF so we never capture the glide

A proud captain after a sunny landing

Doug Armstrong from N510KB

Our team crew member sharing the flight duties Lori and Jerry Fussell and N42WZ

Lorne and Lynn Brett from New Brunswick Canada