Achievement? A 6,400 hr professional pilot with a newly qualified PPL/IR to help him flew around the world in a state of the art high performance turboprop. The biggest achievement was getting somebody else to pay for it.
I'd rather celebrate the achievements of somebody like Dave Sykes, who got largely ignored by the popular press...
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Or Polly Vacher, who did it solo, in a standard club-spec SEP (okay, I think that she had some bigger fuel tanks in her PA28), and genuinely did it to raise money for charity.
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