The $100 Hamburger

Hi, Guest Blogger here (Jeff)

Yesterday - I convinced Patti to join me for a magic carpet ride - for a lunch date.
We headed up to the airport about 1:00 - with the goal to fly to the Eastern Shore (KCGE, Cambridge-Dorchester Airport) and have lunch.

I did a pre-flight, and called for a SFRA flight plan (SFRA stands for Special Flight Rules Area around the Capital here in the DC area)  - We took off, and climbed up to 3500 feet, in order to contact Potomac approach, and be observed on radar, and were cleared on course into the SFRA - to transit thru the VFR corridor back down at 2400 feet - between the BWI (Baltimore) and DCA (Washington Regan) airport airspace.  Once we were outside the SFRA - over the Chesapeake bay, we climbed back up to 3500 feet - for the short cruise over to the Eastern Shore and a decent to Cambridge.

The airport was pretty quiet - only three other planes the entire time we were on the ground for lunch, and they were all at Kay's (the restaurant on the airport) having lunch as well. 

On the way back, we took a few cell phone pictures -as we headed over the bay.  As you can see in the pictures, the clouds were starting to roll in, making it more grey, but it was still very pretty

This last picture shows a number of large freighters in the channel heading to/from Baltimore harbor and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the distance.  These were at an altitude of 3500 feet -

We had a fun afternoon - and overall - managed to keep this in the $100 hamburger price range.  We split a Ruben sandwich - I added a bowl of soup. and a side of onion rings - Patti added some bread pudding for dessert - total bill with tax and tip $20.00  - we flew for 1.8 hours - and used 12 gallons of fuel - so, about $70 for fuel.

-J-