We don't know how many people have been tracking the trip with Google Earth and the GPS Breadcrumbs we acquire on each leg, but this picture shows the exact route followed from Boundary Bay to Thunder Bay. When you look at the trip from this perspective, that's a hell of a lot of flying.
For those not familiar with the Breadcrumbs, they are a record of the GPS coordinates taken for the track flown by the aircraft. The term is taken from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale.
Bob has a small GPS Unit (sitting on the dash, well away from the compass) with a Bluetooth interface that sends the GPS coordinates of the aircraft track to his iPaq PDA, which records the data. This is then downloaded to the laptop later in the day, and gets converted in the breadcrumbs for use in Google Earth.
Any Accountants out there will appreciate the fact that this Road Trip has an audit trail. With the detail provided by the GPS, we can even tell which taxiway we used as the various airports.
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