X-c tomorrow?

Perhaps...

The winds are trying to die off, but in some spots right now they're still forecasting gustiness.

I've got the route worked out.

Leg 1: JGG -> ECG by pilotage, 3500'
The route should be ~66 nm and should take ~40 minutes and a conservative allotment of 6 gallons of fuel.

The leg will start by heading south of JGG to the Surry area to dogleg around the FAF Class D airspace. (Although since part of this trip is to start talking to towers, maybe we'll contact them and then fly straight through....) Then we'll go down the southern shore until we get over the Aberdeen private strip (nicely paved and maintained, by the looks of it -- it's easy to pick out). Then we'll turn to a heading of ~167 (adjusted for whatever the wind conditions actually are tomorrow) and just stick to that heading until the Elizabeth City airport. Along the way we'll pass by PVG (where 388 had work done on the VOR indicator), a spot where we'll be over a big highway with a good-sized lake to the right and Chesapeake airport to our left, and a nice big inlet that leads out into the Outer Banks area, and ECG is at the outlet of the inlet.


Leg 2: ECG -> RZZ by VOR nav, 4500'
ECG has a VOR. CVI VOR is midway between ECG and RZZ. Should be a pretty straight-forward leg.

CVI is on ECG's 290 at 35 nm; RZZ is on CVI's 285 at 41 nm; I'm going on the assumption that the signals will be receivable along the whole route. The whole leg should last 47 minutes and take 7 gallons of fuel.


Leg 3: RZZ -> JGG by dead reckoning, 3500'
The path here is:
Heading of 46 degrees (adjusted for tomorrow's winds) for 12.5 minutes. That should put us over KEMV.
Heading of 61 for 10.5 minutes. That should put us over a little lake.
Heading of 62 for 7 minutes. That should put us over KAKQ; this will be a good test: on the best of days and even with GPS assistance, Wakefield can be very, very hard to find!
Heading of 63 for 16.5 minutes. JGG ought to be right there. (RTFP thinks this heading should be 52, so I'll have to double-check my measurements. That part of the sectional has been folded and refolded about 19 billion times, so it could very well be my error.... which just underscores the fragility of this method and emphasized how good it is to get new sectionals frequently!)

All told it should be just over 2 hours of flying time.

I may try to pick up flight following, but since each leg is only ~40 minutes, I'm thinking it isn't worth the extra overhead on this trip.

Using the analog E6B tonight was easier than last night, but it's still a pain in the rump.