Great 48! - question to regular pilots: your opinions sought.

[Storm]

We've begun our tour of the lower 48 states by flying every Wednesday. However Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are both on Wednesdays this year. Those are both evenings that I realize many pilots may be elsewhere. What should we do? Here are some possibilities:

1. Carry on regardless on Dec 24^th and Dec 31^st, and never mind if they're poorly attended and people miss things.
2. Three week gap: miss out those two Wednesdays from our schedule, giving us a 3 week gap between the Dec 17^th and Jan 7^th flights.
3. Reschedule just those two flights a day earlier to Tuesdays Dec 23^rd and Dec 30^th, continuing as normal on Wednesday Jan 7^th.
4. Switch to flying every Monday after Christmas starting with Monday Dec 29^th, because Monday night football finishes on Dec 22^nd! Regarding the previous week, either:
   1. Reschedule the Dec 24th flight a day earlier to the 23^rd or,
   2. Take a rest that week and have a 12 day gap between Dec 17^th and Dec 29^th flights.

I'm in mostly favor of either 4a or 4b, but I guess 3 would be OK too. I hear that Monday is a slightly better day for some pilots than Wednesday, and I understand that Mondays do give many people something to look forward to at the start of the work/college/school week. (That's why I originally chose Monday for the Mail Run series, but Monday Night Football takes priority in the Fall!)

So what do you think? What would you prefer, and why? I'd very much appreciate it if you could please comment below. :eagerness:

[Novawing24]

Thanks for the heads up Storm,

for my 2 cents I would like to see the Three week gap option and have it stay on Wednesday nights. My justification for this is a little selfish as Wednesday night = Thursday morning for me and every second week I have night shift so am able to partake of some of these excellent flights!

Thanks Storm!!

Safe Skies

Novawing24

[Kalo]

hmm, or during those two weeks you could take a break from the Great48 tour and schedule a random two week holiday trip somewhere in the world so people wont miss the states tour.

As for rescheduling to Monday, I would do whichever is most convenient for you. If both days are equally convenient, have you noticed which night has a higher attendance? Unfortunately my work schedule prevents me from attending any flights past 7-8pm ET, so I cannot offer any feedback.

[Lazerbolt]

All things considered, I would have to vote for option 4b because it fits my schedule a little better to fly most Mondays. My reason for choosing to skip Wednesday the 24th is purely selfish as I have a company Christmas eve party to attend.

[ROBERT DUNN 2]

First, apologies for tardiness to a requested input. I'm glad you revisited this request for counsel on TeamSpeak after Wednesday's well attended and splended group flight.

During that TS discussion, Lazerbolt proposed revisiting an already sceneried and flightplanned holiday themed group flight. Last Christmas (can I still refer thusly?) the festive scenery festooned northern European landscape and holiday cheer abounded.

I've therefore now favor option # 3. Fill some vacant evening with Lazer's Christmas flight. Find some other particularly memorable already planned group flight from our archives and fly those reruns on Wednesday, Christmas Eve and Wednesday, New Year's Eve. I would enjoy Sky King, Constellations, Amazon part 2, first Mail Run, Grand Canyon leg of Hawg's Helos across America, any popular Friday night group flight or Kalo's Roanoke to Washington runs. I could just go on and on. We have such a history of run once absolute gems to choose from.

[Razor]

I agree with Kalo,

during those two weeks you could take a break from the Great48 tour and schedule a random two week holiday trip somewhere in the world so people wont miss the states tour.

and maybe fly somewhere like Alaska, and Hawaii since we don't go there???