Your trip to Florida wasn’t what you envisioned when launching from Texas that morning in clear skies. But what matters is you made it in safely despite things going wrong in the last 50 miles. Chalk it up to 1) a robust recurrent training regimen and 2) top-notch preflight planning, which had you collecting items you’d never think would matter. Turns out, all of that extra time spent prepping paid off in a big way on this trip.
Planning Simple
The Tampa Bay area is the destination, using Sarasota/Bradenton (KSRQ) for aircraft tiedown and a rental car. This’ll be a two-leg trip to include a fuel stop around Tallahassee. Wanting to avoid the busy airspace and ramp (and pricier fuel) at Tallahassee International, you filed to Quincy Muni (2J9) to the northwest. Cheaper self-serve fuel and a small but well-equipped FBO will do just fine for three of you to take a leisurely lunch break before continuing to KSRQ.
