C172 Visits YSSY

[Mick F]

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.

Mick

[Nigel C]

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?

[Dave Powell]

22 hrs in a 172?? .... he'd need serious bladder control too

[Nigel C]

You wouldn't want any turbulence....

[Nigel C]

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.

[Adam G]

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!

[Jason H]

Any ideas where it is parked in Bankstown? I wouldn't mind speaking to this guy myself :P

[Shayne G]

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!

[Nigel C]

Even more so given it was his first ferry flight

[Shayne G]

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