International Ferry is not rocket science, hire Jim Hazelton for the day, take your flight plan material with you, i'm sure that will give you pretty much all the knowledge you'll need.
1) ring Jeppesen in Canberra and buy a trip kit ( will give you all the IFR chart etc etc for the route )
2) contact an overflight permit company, they will organisae your airways clearances/visa's and hotels, taxi's etc etc.
3) Contact a flying school in the US, do a check ride or two with them.
4) down load copies of "General Declarations" and learn how to fill out a ICAO flight plan.
5) Hire/buy all the safety/oxygen equipment you need, you do not have to fly thousands of mile over the ocean, if its your aircraft, go the scenic route, its safer ( who really wants to sit in an aircraft for 20 hours, one patch of blue water looks pretty much the same as the next ( Helicopter Underwater Escape training {HUET} is a great investment ).
6) revise how to calculate PNR/ETP, have heaps of enroute alternate info.
You'll love it.
Last edited by Lefthanded_Rock_Thrower; 19th Jan 2007 at 04:01.