As can be expected with any trip we are dealing with the unexpected. We put the "Last Chance" in the Higginsville Avionics Lab shop last week to have a new Garmin 496 installed and on the trip back to Macon the charging system quit. Rich is busy trouble shooting the problem and hopes the old girl will be back in the air by the weekend. We forgot to mention that Rich is also an A&P and IA and is doing the maintenance on the plane for the trip. The next big project is to gather all supplies together and start weighing things to make sure the wieght and balance will be correct.
Bill is doing the flight planning under Rich's supervision and has just about got each leg completely figured out. Basically we will go from Macon, Mo. to Minot, North Dakota and then into Canada for customs. Then to Whitehorse and follow the AlCan highway to Fairbanks, Alaska with many stops inbetween.