American Tour 2026 13 South Dakota - Minnesota
July 25th, 09:30AM-12:30 PM,(GMT-05:00) Central Daylight Savings Time (US & Canada) 14:30 UTC
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Plane: Cessna 210 Centurion, Diamond DA-62, Piper PA-28T, Mooney, Smaug Draco, or equivalent. (170 kt or greater cruise speed needed for today) The idea is to try to constrain the flights to 2.5 hours, as this trip is *328 NM*! We may wind up taking over 2.5 hours on this flight. We will change aircraft accordingly, for visual enjoyment and time management.
Departure Airport: Pierre Regional (KPIR) airport, South Dakota.
Duration: 2 – 2.5 hours
Welcome to the Texas Props American Tour 2026.
This series will be a journey to visit each and every state capital in the continental United States. We will be flying this tour in a VOR/Localizer Navigation mode, and the plan is to adjust aircraft type/speed to complete each week’s trip within approx. 2.5 hours. If all you want to do is “follow the magenta line”, then this tour is NOT for you!
I am not going to publish the instructions (route) before we are actually preparing to take off at the departure airport. And it will NOT be a flight plan that you may just load into the sim (World Map or SimBrief). It will contain a set of instructions and VOR freq/courses that we will follow. Let’s have a look at KPIR – PIR – KBKX – FGT – KSTP, and points in between. Feel free to fly your own thing (as long as it can KEEP UP!). You can make it as REAL as you WANT it to be! And LIVE WEATHER is ALWAYS encouraged.
I am embracing a new tool, that allows ANY flight sim to fly along with us, and actually SEE another plane. It is UniFly | Fly Together Across MSFS, X-Plane, P3D & FSX . Questions? We can help get you over any of the issues. Flying the United States of AMERICA ALONE is just NOT the same as flying with the GROUP. The photogrammetry in the States has considerably CHANGED. Let’s see how much better it is! We will travel to each Capital sequentially (following Ralph Olson’s map) as we go.
BTW, we speak TRUCK as well. Simulation is what we do here. Enjoy ATS? Drop in for a visit or a convoy!