There seems to be a number of issues here
Obviously Kirk can fly and seems to survive his forced landings
How someone can get lost with modern GPS units ?
Then we come to the aircraft which doesn't seem up to the job continually failing
His biggest problems seem to be unreliability and lack of equipment ?
The aircraft needs attention the rest ? If I was on that trip in a similar performance aircraft I would happily buddy up and fly alongside him to get him there
Am I missing something here ?
I have flown a ferry Florida to South Africa in a Citation S2 six years ago which obviously isn't anything like the same but took me 32 hours from Florida on the north route
Looking down I often wondered how great it would be low and slow over Africa ))
I had a very dear friend who continued flying Atlantic ferries in single props at 78 years of age
He had the same spirit although he had a lot more guts than I
He sadly crashed in Canada and died but was a great inspiration to me
I very much hope Captain Kirk with his star ship enterprise fulfils his ambition
Last edited by Pace; 3rd Dec 2016 at 10:09.