Preparing for long cross country

Last week and this coming week we're preparing for our long cross-country. We'll be taking two airplanes down through the mountains down ID, UT and Nevada. I'll be flying in a group of two airplanes (5 students and 2 instructors) over to Seattle and then down the coast to Los Angelos and then inland to meet the other 2 airplanes. From there we'll switch crews and those who came down the coast will be flying up through the mountains back to Spokane.
Here are some pictures of our preparations last week. We are doing the required maintenance inspections and also looking real carefull to fix anything that needs fixing before we leave.


(class mate Kyle greases and checks the wheels and tires)

(the airplane without the engine is going with us, hopefully the engine will be done:) )

(Classmate Peter works on engine)

(Instructor John looks on as we check the retractable gear system)