Ride needed Caro, MI to Omaha, NE (or to Iowa City, IA)

[kevin182]

Lynn...I'm in Grand Rapids...it's half way between Caro and Michigan City. It wouldn't make sense for me to fly to Michigan City to pick up a dog that is being transported from Caro, just to fly to Peoria.

However, I would be...as originally stated...willing to fly from Grand Rapids to Caro to pick up the dog to deliver to Michigan City, Gary, IN or Lansing, IL.

It would be really great to get someone to pick up the Caro to Zeeland flight as we had planned with George.

So..to be clear..If you get a pilot to fly the Caro to Michigan City route. I'm out.
If you get a pilot to fly the Michigan City to Peoria route...I'm in. And will pick up Keiran in Caro to deliver to MC.

It may be worthwhile for you to look at flight plannings sites like flightaware, Flightpln.com to get an idea of the flight logistics. You can find airports that are around the pickup point or destination by going to Airnav.com, going to the airports tab and typing in a city and state. Mostly pilots are looking for a paved runway (although grass is ok as long as it's not soggy) with a fixed based operator (FBO) on site. The FBO will have a place for a pilot to rest, wait..perhaps get some food and drink..perhaps have courtesy car available in the event there is a delay, weather information and a computer terminal...but most importantly fuel. Perhaps you know all of that, which is great. But if not...it's good information to have.

Just keep me posted.

Kevin

[kevin182]

Also...I'd be willing to pick him up on Saturday and foster him up to two weeks if you need me to.

Kevin

[BostonRescuer]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you so very much! As you can see this is my first shot at coordinating an air transport. I appreciate your patience and the information and links to the aviation websites, which I'll take a look tonight when I have more time.

For now I've changed the board requests to:

1) Caro, MI to Zeeland, MI
or
2) Michigan City, IN to Peoria, IL

Lynn

[BostonRescuer]

Kieran was weighed at the vet today and is only 41 lbs.

[BostonRescuer]

This looks like it will be completed today 8/12/12. Many thanks to all.

[kevin182]

How did you get it done? Just wondering...glad it worked out.

[BostonRescuer]

Hi Kevin,

Howard did both legs and took Kieran to Peoria so they could get the transport finished fairly early and beat the weather that was coming into Omaha from the west. He made it in safe and sound yesterday afternoon around 2:00 p.m.

THANK YOU so much for your efforts to bring this all together. I'm learning that mother nature really dictates when and where you fly.

Warm regards, Lynn

[kevin182]

Glad it got done. Bummed that I didn't get to participate.

Kevin