Grand Cathedral’s Tour – 2024-2025
In June of 2024 my wife (who has a passion for ancient medieval churches and cathedrals) and I started grandcathedrals.com. It came about based on a suggestion from the Pastor of our church to create a travel blog of these historical structures. So I have decided to fly over them in the flight simulator and incorporate real drone footage in some of the flight videos. The flight plan is based on the order my wife visited and gave tours of the churches.
Grand Cathedrals is dedicated to the art, architecture, and history of medieval cathedrals and churches in Europe. We bring you original video and imagery from in-person tours and provide insights to better understand and appreciate these beautiful historic structures. During this period in history these ancient churches were most often at the center of town and daily life, offered people safety, peace of mind, spiritual renewal, and moments of tranquility.
USA Coastline Tour – 2022 -2023
My journey begins in North America. On December 17th, 2022 I depart from Williamsburg, Virginia airport (KJGG) in a Cessna 310R. The anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers. This was the start of a journey around the world with a focus on continent coastline cities with inland flights to catch interesting places. I start out and head for Kitty Hawk. Learning Flight Simulator in time to take-off on this date was challenging, but accomplished. My 2023 destination was Barter Island, Alaska.
As I am flying down the eastern coast over the summer I run into some bad storms. During one landing at night I hit some terrible crosswinds and barely get the plane down on the runway. I’m still really learning to fly. I use live weather so I deal with what ever that days challenges are flying.
Over the summer I fly around the Florida coastline. I fly the Kodiak seaplane and execute multiple water landings at some great resorts.
As I hit New Orleans downtown where I worked and lived for a few years I decide to buzz the city in the Cessna 310R and attempt flying under a bridge.
August 13, 2023 I land at Barter Island, Alaska in a Cirrus Vision Jet. This aircraft and the Longitude are the only Jets I’ve learned to fly at this point.
Realizing I now need to learn to fly commercial airliners I spend the next 90-120 days learning the FlyByWire A320 with the intent of flying across the Northwest Territories, Canada, and Newfoundland down the upper east coast to Norfolk, Virginia to complete the North America phase of the world tour.