How about dropping off most of the mountains (Jackson / Tetons / Yellowstone, leaving a slimmed down route
Like This?
I'm Ok with dropping those locations as we're heading up there in the car anyway, and I'm trying to keep the flying simple. For the southern route I've also refined it
To This.
I don't mind taking an instructor along, I figured I'd be up for a checkride anyway, but I'm a bit wary as the whole purpose of this exercise is to gain PIC time... I'm not sure how that works with an instructor flying along.
Would Custer County be the closest strip to Mt Rushmore, and would it be possible to hire a car or get a bus from there to Mt Rushmore and back?
Thanks for the help mate!