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Old 4th September 2008 | 18:45
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>?As long as we are sharing flying experiences what was your longest flight as a pilot flying the thing, mine was 19 hours and 10 minutes. <

Chuck my longest flight was a couple of months ago flying a Citation as Captain Florida to South Africa via Goose bay, Iceland direct, Prestwick (Scotland) Santander (Spain) Then down through Morocco, Algeria. across Nigeria to a little island on the Equator called Sao Tome and on down to South Africa.

This Citation was an S2 with a fuel capacity of 5800 ibs and 1500 nm range with reserves.

Diciest leg was to Sao Tome 400 miles off the Africa coast with not enough reserves to come back after the Nigerians refused to let us go high.

Total flight time 35 hrs at usually FL390 but with fuel stops and overnights.

But then again mine was in a Jet not like you brave guys in singles

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