Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
Florida... so many small airports, relatively cheap gas, lots of airports have great restaurants on them... and the scenic flying is par none... Caribbean, Bahamas only 45 minutes away, FL Keys, Gulf Coast (which has a beauty all its own), and a lot of great airports along the east coast of FL... and lots of no-pay courtesy cars
...and lots of wildlife to see if you want to get down low: manatees (they look like potatoes under the water) all along the st. johns, and lots of gators of the everglades... even see sharks, manta rays, and dolphins regularly.
my second favorite would be Montana for scenic reasons.
If you are going to fly a light airplane, off grass strips, I agree on Florida, but down in the cetral part, not the pan handle. Loads of old military training fields and crop duster grass strips still in operation, and if you ever lose your motor and can't find a cow field to drop into, there are lots of long, straight, dirt roads you can put down on safely. And there is the coast, both sides, and the Keys, and the weather is almost always VFR if you get up early and fly before the thunderstorms grow.
Hey Chris, I've also flown the Technam, out of SEF, if you've been there, but I had a J3 there for awhile and loved flying that much more.