Originally Posted by mcartier713

so yesterday for my first "real cross country" we took off in our bonanza c33 from kansas city and flew to orangeberg, south carolina (kinda by columbus).. we than stopped for about an hour to eat lunch and then turned around. the turning around part was the bad idea. we had to divert around some storms, stop for fuel and deal with a 30kt headwind in a 150kt plane. needless to say it was my first time ever flying high performance and i was at the helm for almost 15 HOURS.