Originally Posted by
sycamore
CROMWELLMAN,perhaps you should look at `google earth`,and measure the distances involved from Belize to the Islands,;shortest direct is 1600nm,pretty route via SAmerica is 2600nm.Fine if there happens to be a C130/Voyager/A400 in the area,but then you are jeopardising the aircraft flying into/around a hurricane.Not only that,but you have to clear with many countries to overfly,diplomatically,several of whom are not necessarily friendly having foreign military on their doorstep.
Sorry Sycamore, I am an ex-Pongo so I was never a navigator and in the highest traditions of the Army I never could read a map. But thank you point taken