What a wonderful day! Departed KSRQ. Briefly stopped at KPGD for fuel. Buzzed Sanibel looking for friends vacationing on the beach. Then to DVALL, a logical waypoint getting set up for the last leg to KMTH, with deviations to stay out of certain airspace. All for a blackened grouper sandwich at Keys Fisheries. Hadn't been there for a while. Last time was an Island Packet rendezvous circa 2007/2008.
The Glades are interesting landscape. Lots of area to wonder about. How many pythons are down there. The Keys are simply beautiful from the air. An amazing realization, this trip took two hours. The same trip on Charmed would take, what, maybe three days given 60 nm days. Even on Lacey or in the Benz this trip would have taken nearly six hours. Alexandra is a great ride!
On a technical note, the data update for June didn't go perfectly. Navdata went in easily again, but for whatever reason the other data didn't. The cards had to be removed and reinstalled a few times before all data came up without alerts and errors. Having the Samsung tablet on the yoke is a comforting backup. I wonder if I should bring paper, too? Or a second tablet?
A new question comes up after these flight operations, how many hours between oil changes, 25 or 50? With 25 hours since the last one, the oil looks great. And the plane is being used enough that there is little chance of the oil getting stale. The answer just may be 50 for now.
