Sorry - I wasn't totally clear in the first post:
We flew Commercial from LA to Boston, where we picked up the plane on Monday morning.
We left Lawrence Mass around 1130am for our Cross Country back to Fullerton California.
We had a great time on the trip. We stopped at a CAF wing in St Louis to get some brake help as they were a bit spongy.
We arrived home in California on Thursday afternoon.
We stopped at Riverside (my home base ) where we were joined by a RV4 for a formation flight of two into Fullerton.
Before we landed we headed over Los Alamitos to hit the Ocean so we could call it a true cross country flight.
After hitting the beach, we turned back to Fullerton, where we did a nice 2g overhead break and a perfect landing to close our cross country trip.
Daniel Wotring, and myself (Gary Stark) are the new owners of the plane. Daniel is the CFI who knows how to fly the beast, and he did great as we had several places with a nice cross wind, and he handled it perfectly.
Myself - I just started my PPL with Daniel in January of 2011, received my PPL in Sept 2011. I purchased a C150 flew it for 4 months, and discovered that headwinds slowed me down coming back from Vegas, so in January I sold the C150 and purchased a C177B fixed gear. I also started my Instrument Rating.
In June, I realized that I was almost finished with my IR, and decided I needed Complex and High Performance for my commercial rating, so I started looking at T6's.
I then made plans to fly my C177 to Oshkosh.
The week before Osh - I found N7296C - and started the prebuy.
The week I left for OSH I took my IR checkride and passed!
I love my new hobby of flying so much that from starting in Jan of 2011 till today I now have over 330hrs in my logbook. The trip home in the T6 was awesome.
I have a lesson with Daniel on Monday to learn some basic maneuvers and next month we will be going to Ramona airport for a formation clinic.
Daniel is also going to be using the plane for flight instruction, formation instruction and warbird rides in the so-cal area.
The plane is going to be based out of Fullerton KFUL, and Chino CNO
We are looking to have a great time with the plane. I have more pictures of the trip if interested.
Gary Stark