How far to CAP meetings?

[High Speed Low Drag]

How far do you drive to get to your normal C.A.P. meeting?

I am curious to see how CAP members from across the nation dedicate themselves in order to attend the weekly meetings. This information will help determine how far away a new squadron should be to start up.

Thanks for your help!

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[Pingree1492]

Most of our cadets are within 20-30 minutes, or less.  However, we do have a cadet who's driving about 2.5 hours (one way) to get to meetings every night.

Depends on the dedication of your members, but you would generally want to keep drive times to 30 minutes or less for the majority of your membership- though you will have those that are willing to drive an hour or more.

[RiverAux]

Most folks are going to be less than a half hour.  You will get a few freaks willing to drive 1-2 hours though.

[Cecil DP]

I have a 45 minute drive, but also have 3 squadrons that are closer to me.

[DC]

I just moved, but previously I had about a 25 minute drive. I haven't transferred to the squadron down here in my new area yet, but it should be a 30-40 minute drive..

[NC Hokie]

We have several cadets making a 45-60 minute drive each way for meetings; one of those passes his former squadron on the way to ours.

[LtCol057]

It takes me approx an hour and 15 minutes to get to meetings. Used to have senior meetings on different night from cadet meetings, and really racked up the miles.  When gas went to $3/gallon, we changed to have meetings on same nights. 

[mynetdude]

where I used to live, I used to sit in the "middle" so I would be at the bottom of the V the squadron I am going to now is on the left, the squadron I started at is on the right.  From where I used to life squadron on the left was slightly closer than squadron on the right.

It was about an hour drive pretty much, the other squadron was about 35-45 minutes.  I racked up quite a bit of miles at my first squadron even when gas was 3.50/gallon but since having major eye surgery I had to make the decision to find another squadron that was closer so I could participate on a regular basis and then finally succumbed to moving to the city so now it is only 10-15 minutes.

would I drive 2-2 1/2 hours to a meeting? You bet I would, the downfall with this is weather and the pass make it almost impossible to do this during the winter months.  In the summer months its kinda ridiculous but I'd have to bring my RV with me as I would not fathom turning around the same night to drive home.

I'm satisfied where I am at for now.

[Airrace]

I have a ten minute drive.

[exFlight Officer]

Travel time takes me about 45 minutes to my squadron and 45 minutes back home. Not bad considering that my squadron is in the next county. I am very dedicated to my squadron and I would be willing to drive an hour to an hour and a half away to it if needed!

[Майор Хаткевич]

As it stands now:

30 minute "L" (City train/subway) ride.
30-45minute car ride.

Totally worth it.

[Seabee219]

I drive about 15 in tops from my house to the airport. We have a nice squadron that takes care of eachother. Our wing keeps giving the awards to the same people, the same squadrons and so forth. So we take care of ourself.

[Dracosbane]

It's a 25 min drive from my house to my meetings, depending on the farming traffic.  There's a squadron about ten minutes from my front door, and although I work with them on occasion as an associate advisor and personal friend of several members there, I'm loyal to my home squadron.  Started there as a cadet, went back as a senior, don't want to be in any other unit.

We have members that drive from five or six different counties around us and I think the longest might be an hour one way.

[Capt Rivera]

15 min

[Thrashed]

18 miles each way. Part highway, part back roads = 20 minutes each way.

[cap235629]

6 minutes, used to be 4 then I moved

[JROB]

Used to be 4 Miles (Squadron Closed) now I drive 25 Miles.

[mikebank]

25-30 minute drive

[C/SrA]

I drive about 20 to 30 minutes to my squadron building, 40 minutes on really bad nights.

[a2capt]

We have some who drive an hour, an another an hour and a half to come to our unit, and I feel guilty sometimes that I'm 5 minutes, and the only traffic lights are just outside and just inside the base gate.

The parents tend to stay for the meeting, have become sponsor members and will add, that even with the drive, it's worth 100% of the time spent for what the cadets get out of the program.

[Cadet Dan]

2 miles down the road to the airport. about 15 minute drive to winter location though...

[mynetdude]

I used to drive 45 miles a combination of city/interstate/rural to a squadron in the next county, had to transfer for health/family reasons and from the city to the squadron 10 minutes but I take my sister home after the meetings so its about 25-30 miles or so from the squadron then I have to go home from there so that's 18 miles back again a combination of crural/city/interstate and the squadron is in the same county.

My future plans in CAP will change so I don't know what squadron I will be with at that point.

[Al Sayre]

51 miles from home to SQ/HQ takes me about 50 minutes mostly on I-20.  If I go from work then it's 97 miles and about 90 minutes. 

[Rotorhead]

I have a 45 minute drive, but also have 3 squadrons that are closer to me.

Ditto.

[C/MSgt Lunsford]

100 miles round trip. I could go to the Hagerstown, MD squadron, but I have made Martinsburg Composite Squadron my Home.

[addo1]

I drive anywhere from 60 minues to an hour and a half to get to my unit...

[exFlight Officer]

Now I drive a total of 3 hours to and from my squadron. I transfered and now have farther to go.

[Flying Pig]

Im about a 2hr round trip.  Unfortunately I only make it once or twice per month.   Lots of other things going on during the week that I cant get away from.

[a2capt]

100 miles round trip. I could go to the Hagerstown, MD squadron, but I have made Martinsburg Composite Squadron my Home.

Heh, Hagerstown, I was born there, left when I was 4, don't remember much. Except last June I drove a 26 ft. U-Haul down Indian Cottage Rd. looking for the house I remember, only to find out that was the address before my time, and no wonder nothing looked familiar. I was looking for a 2 story square victorian house on a corner.  the only 2 stories on that street I saw were two split levels, and I certainly didn't remember any hills.

I should have checked to see if it was a CAP meeting night, and stayed. It was a Tuesday I was there..

[tdepp]

14.54 miles door to door for me if I leave from home.  2.93 miles if I leave from work.  If I'm coming from Zoltan V from my part time job as a Flying Saucer Mission Scanner and Human Body Prober, about 543.74 light years, give or take a light year or two.  Depends if the over-thrusters for the warp drive have been serviced lately or not or if the Flying Saucer Mission Pilot has been hitting the CT Alpha III joy juice or not and we take a detour to Fhloston Paradise to hang out with Maj. Korben Dallas (ret.).

[a2capt]

Are you sure that NH3 isn't being huffed by an insider, and you're not just blaming it on transients?

.. Thats some tall story there ;-)

[tdepp]

Are you sure that NH3 isn't being huffed by an insider, and you're not just blaming it on transients?

.. Thats some tall story there ;-)

Perhaps I need to check our 182's CO detector.  I understand prolonged exposure can cause brain damage or commenting on CT. 

[C/CMSgt]

45 minutes to an hour. Depends on the traffic.

[SarDragon]

en minutes if i have to stop at all of the lights. Less if not.

Huffing NH3? That'll sure clean out your sinuses fast!

[Raja1020]

17 miles from Edgerton Wisconsin to Beloit Wisconsin