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Old 9th Nov 2011, 18:58
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periksmoen
 
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Hmmm... Where to start?

I've had about a dozen flights in the 20 hour range, but I think my longest was this one at 21.6 hours from start-up to shutdown, including 20:55 actual time in the air.



The longest distance I've flown non-stop was 2650nm from Massachusetts to Shannon, Ireland. As a testament to the Mooney's fuel efficiency, I took on 0 gallons of fuel in Shannon (they don't carry avgas anymore) and flew another 1000nm+ to Vienna on the same fuel I took on in Mass. 3700nm on a tank of gas ain't too bad.



Other notables include this one at 2450nm non-stop,



which made for a very long week because it was only four days after this one:



One of the most memorable has to be a 17-hour flight in a Twin Otter from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands due to the fact the I had no autopilot, no heat, a GPS failure, and was surrounded by 1400 gallons of JetA.

Finally, one of the longest point A to point B flights (though there were stops en route) was this one at 12,410nm which required nearly 100 hours of total flying time

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