Re: Vicinity Flight Filing Service

[Darrel Toepfer]

abripl wrote:

> I am just in last few hours of flight testing. Most of the time I spend
> within 30 miles of my airport. My wife keeps a loose tab of where I am
> but sometimes she is away. I wished there was a service where I can
> just tell someone I'll be up for an hour or so and if not back look for
> me - especially in this rural area where hardly anybody would notice if
> a plane went down. How do others handle this?
> ================================================== =
> SQ2000 canard: http://www.abri.com/sq2000

SMS Text Messaging on cellphones, email, voicemail, an answering machine
with remote access... Flight following and Flight Service are air to
ground and ground to air contacts... Post-It-Notes...

[Toks Desalu]

What's wrong with filing a flight plan?
Toks Desalu


"abripl" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> I am just in last few hours of flight testing. Most of the time I spend
> within 30 miles of my airport. My wife keeps a loose tab of where I am
> but sometimes she is away. I wished there was a service where I can
> just tell someone I'll be up for an hour or so and if not back look for
> me - especially in this rural area where hardly anybody would notice if
> a plane went down. How do others handle this?
> ================================================== =
> SQ2000 canard: http://www.abri.com/sq2000
>

[abripl]

> What's wrong with filing a flight plan?
> Toks Desalu .

Just for buzzing around the airport vicinity?

[Luke Scharf]

abripl wrote:
> I am just in last few hours of flight testing. Most of the time I spend
> within 30 miles of my airport. My wife keeps a loose tab of where I am
> but sometimes she is away. I wished there was a service where I can
> just tell someone I'll be up for an hour or so and if not back look for
> me - especially in this rural area where hardly anybody would notice if
> a plane went down. How do others handle this?

Uh, I thought that was what the Flight Service Station and the
flight-plan system was for. If you just call for a weather briefing,
they'll ask you for your tail number and a rough idea of what you're
doing -- just in case.

Your tax tollars at work! (Provided you're in the US, anyway).

-Luke