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Assuming he had about 24hrs of fuel onboard (roughly 840L's), he was probably in the order of about 400kg's overweight. Only guestimations though.
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He must have needed some serious runway length with no obstacles within cooee of the runway end!
Ground effect across the Pacific like the Catalina's in WW2?
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22 hrs in a 172?? .... he'd need serious bladder control too
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You wouldn't want any turbulence....
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I had the pleasure of driving the pilot to his aircraft for departure to Bankstown shortly. He had quite an interesting story on his flight; his longest leg was a total of 26 hours in the cockpit.
Mick, you were right with the fuel...he said he was about 400kg over MTOW, but had FAA approval as it was a ferry flight. He said he still had 750' climb on departure from mainland US at the start of a 14hr totally black night enroute to Hilo. I didn't ask him about the bladder issue... The aircraft will be based at Bankstown.
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That guy deserves a medal - I use to struggle doing a 3 hour Nav in a C172 (and use to have the student looking for every knot of tailwind to shorten it!), I can't imagine 26 hours!! My physio would certainly be making a killing for a few weeks after that!
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Any ideas where it is parked in Bankstown? I wouldn't mind speaking to this guy myself :P
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He went from a 26 hour leg to an 20 min leg during this ferry flight
Departed Sydney 16L at 8:40pm and arrived at Bankstown on 11C at 9:00pm. These small aircraft ferrying pilots have some interesting adventures! |
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Even more so given it was his first ferry flight
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Came across this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKCAJJJePGA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-M3DIDC0w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CD9OPg-RQs Last edited by Shayne G; 19th November 2011 at 02:56 PM. |
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