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  • Trike Flying: Craig V ( QuickR Trike Pilot )

    Hello all, I was invited here to share some XC flying stories and create new ones and new adventures. Looking forward to sharing stories with all of you, Craig   See the Branches of the Story Tree to the Right on this Page under Navigation            ...

    Tags: Cross Country, XC, Flying Adventures, Adventure, 48 states in 39 days, QuickR, Trike Pilot, 245 airports in California, Long Distance Trike Flying, Trike Flying, Quick R

  • Trike Flying over The Grand Canyon-- Oct 26, 2012

    The Grand Canyon Last Friday (Oct. 26) was a nice day for a morning flight out of my home field at Lodi, CA.  Afterwards, during the 1 1/2 hour drive home I stopped about 2 PM for a bit of lunch and checked WX reports as is my habit.  Holy S*#t!!! The reports had changed and there...

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  • World Class Trike Flights-- Dec 11, 2009

    Where are those few special, world class places we have visited as trike pilots that a visiting pilot would just have to see?  Pretty and nice aren't enough...we've all been to lots of those.  I've got two I've been to and know of at least three others that are must sees but I have...

    Tags: World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country

  • Craig Valentine's Big Adventure (Landing at all 48 Continental U.S. States in 36 Days-- In a TRIKE)

    Sorry for the post and subsequent delete--  I wanted to keep the navigation logical per the site instructions, so I decided to repost the series of stories that belong to this heading as sub-pages. See the Branches of the Story Tree to the Right on this Page under Navigation     ...

    Tags: all 48 Continental U.S. 48 States 39 Days, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country

  • 3 Ford Crown Victoria

    From emails exchanged and posted by a friend: Craig's been battling winds and thunderstorms and all sorts of adventures, but here's my favorite email of his so far (he had been pinned down by winds in a tiny New Mexico town for days at this point. Each day, waking to the same thing, get up at da...

    Tags: Crown Victoria, Airport Cars, Groundhog Day, New Mexico, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country

  • 1st Installment

    These are published as they occurred with the help of friends who I emailed story updates to. June 21, 2012 Hey David,Can you help me out here?  ...In my mind there were two initial marker points on this trip. First,getting past Texas and the second is moving North of Atlanta.  SinceI...

    Tags: all 48 Continental U.S. 48 States 39 Days, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country

  • 2 Frustration

    FRUSTRATIONSo far this short trip has been all about weather and I don'tanticipate that changing. I stopped in Needles because the winds weremuch higher than forecast when I landed and I didn't want to continuethat day into the mountains with higher than anticipated winds andfeeling tired. Waited...

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  • 5 Navigation & Weather Equipment (It's thunderstorm time)

    on Navigation & Weather Equipment (It's thunderstorm time):On Jun 18th, 2012, at ~12:00 PM, David wrote:Hey Craig,How's the iFly 700 working for you? Does it give you the real-time weather / ADS-B? If not, what are you using for realtime weather?I probably need to upgrade soon. Leaning toward...

    Tags: Navigation, Weather Equipment, thunderstorm, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country

  • Cross Country tools: (Equipment)

    From emails exchanged during my 48 state cross-country trip A partial list of electronic equipment carriedOn this trip [48 continental US states] I'm using the iFly 720 GPS and moving map, Enigma GPS,iPad with Wing X Pro for the moving map, route planning, sectionalchart display and quite a bit ...

    Tags: Equipment, Tools, iFly 720 GPS, Enigma, GPS, iPad, Wing X Pro, moving map, Flight Guide, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country

  • 9 Meeting Barry Maggio (Posted June 25th evening)

    Posted June 25th evening: Meeting Barry MaggioJohn let me sleep in until 7 AM..."wake up, we need to get ready toleave in half an hour". He had an early breakfast meeting and I hadto hustle so he wouldn't be late. Immediately afterwards we were goingto the airport to load the trikes and head nort...

    Tags: John, Barry, Lakewood NJ, Weather, Chesapeake Bay, Clouds, Delaware, New Jersey, Statue of Liberty, Lady Liberty, Trike Flying, World Class Trike Flights, QuickR, Trike Flying, Long Distance XC, XC, Cross-Country