I realized that piloting a light sport aircraft would be far different than my previous GA experiences. I had acclimated myself to the perception that it would be “for fun” flying, rather than to make trips to go places. How wrong I was. I just completed a 1400 mile round trip over the Christmas holidays that took me from Clemson, SC, down to West Palm Beach, and then over to south central Florida, before returning to Clemson, via Hilton Head. With some local sightseeing flights with friends and family in and around Sebring, and again just north of Tampa, the trip accounted for almost 17 hours of logged air time with an over-all fuel burn rate of 4 1/2 gph. The plane performed flawlessly at enroute altitudes ranging between 750 and 7,500 feet and it gave me a whole new prospective on the quality and engineering built into Just Aircraft products. Now with just under 100 hours registered on the tach during the 6 months that I have been flying my Highlander, I am back to enjoying all of the fun that I have missed over the past dozen years, being without an airplane. My posted photo was taken at the Sebring airport, where I hope to return in just 2 weeks to attend their annual Light Sports Expo. This will be my 3rd straight year at this show, but this time I hope to arrive in my own LSA, instead of by car.
