Driving home to NY (Returning from Exile)

I am wrapping up my final hours at the best job I have had!

It is 21 hours of driving back to Islip. I hope that I can make it to Harrisburg Saturday night to see my father.

I have to finish some packing and loading the car. I plan on driving out at dawn on Saturday. Tomorrow morning I'll be letting the air out of my mattress and strapping the bird & travel cage in the right seat. He did well on the drive down, hopefully he will be good on the ride back.

The Garmin 396 has an auto mode along with the air mode. I'll be giving it a try.

There is news that there may be flooding in TN, hopefully I will miss that.

Flight from FL to NY

I was flying from F45 to KHWV. I did most of the trip at 11.5k ft VFR over the top.

The forecast was 1800 ft 6 mile visibility in Islip. It was 400 ft overcast and 1.5 mile visibility. I spent the night in Delaware.

I filed IFR for the Deleware to NY leg of the flight. As usual, I filed an overland route, was cleared for a twin engine over water route, got another change en-route, and then got continuous changes en-route. Why do flight planning & program it into the GPS?

Only time I got to fly what I filed was going into BWI on a severe clear day!

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