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The experiences of the author in flying over an air-mail route are graphically portrayed. Although general practices hold for all routes, each route is said to present its own problems; special methods used in flying between any two points are not entirely effective in flying between any other two points. Conditions along the New York City-Cleveland route are therefore described and such topics as lights and beacons, terminal fields, emergency landing-fields, and the various aids in locating the position of the airplane when the beacons are obscured, are discussed. Among these aids are the general appearance of cities and the direction of their main streets, large factories, blast-furnaces, amusement parks, lighted railroad trains, automobile headlights on main highways, railroad roundhouses, mountains, and rivers. In nightflying, much depends on the airplane, which must meet definite requirements.