{"id":1506,"date":"2013-03-18T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2013-03-18T19:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:28:24","slug":"taking-a-cessna-206-on-holiday-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/taking-a-cessna-206-on-holiday-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Cessna 206 on holiday to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Director of Business Development, Steve, \u00a0decided to fly himself and his wife, Marilyn to Mexico in their Cessna 206.<\/p>\n<h1>Their route to Mexico from Pitt Meadows<\/h1>\n<p>(click on the picture to see the route!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1507\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">To follow his trip, Steve is sending us an update on his adventure:<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Hi Folks,<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Thought you might be interested in our trip south through the Baja with our Cessna 206.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5em;\">Leg 1<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1517\" title=\"Pitt Meadows-Leg 1a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1a-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1a-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1a.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Derek picked up the dog and we left Vancouver in pouring rain but the forecast said it was better south. Customs had us draw the unlucky bag check card, my neatly packed bags came out and back in. That cut into our precious daylight hours but a quick fuel turn had us southbound at 3500 ft under a deck of clouds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1519\" title=\"Pitt Meadows-Leg 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pitt-Meadows-Leg-1.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Garmin Aera796 worked it&#8217;s magic with Satellite weather and we were able to work our way around the cells. Amazing technology to have in flight weather and it allowed us to push through to Hood River.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1518\" style=\"line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px;\" title=\"Hood River-Leg 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Hood-River-Leg-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Hood-River-Leg-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Hood-River-Leg-1.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A generous friend at the airport lent us his &#8220;throw down&#8221; jeep and shortly after we were having dinner at or favorite restaurant with my brother. Wx looks better tomorrow.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can track us at:<br \/>\n<a title=\"SPOT\" href=\"http:\/\/share.findmespot.com\/shared\/faces\/viewspots.jsp?glId=0gZresblqm4QVY47IGIml0O3K3bjpuddc  Steve \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/share.findmespot.com\/shared\/faces\/viewspots.jsp?glId=0gZresblqm4QVY47IGIml0O3K3bjpuddc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maxcraft Avionics<\/a>\u00a0is a leader in airplane and helicopter avionic system upgrades like the Garmin GTN series, including installation of everything from a basic VHF Radio and simple Garmin portable GPS all the way to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maxcraft.ca\/index.php\/product-lines\">TCAS, EFIS, and autopilot systems<\/a>. We have the largest avionics facility\u00a0<\/em><em>in Canada and we have over 20,000 unique part numbers in our in inventory to repair your aircraft or upgrade your cockpit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Director of Business Development, Steve, \u00a0decided to fly himself and his wife, Marilyn to Mexico in their Cessna 206. Their route to Mexico from Pitt Meadows (click on the picture to see the route!) To follow his trip, Steve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/taking-a-cessna-206-on-holiday-to-mexico\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[233,44,121,235,234,236],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cessna-206","tag-garmin-aera-796","tag-maxcraft-avionics","tag-mexico","tag-pitt-meadows","tag-wx"],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}