How far has your longest flight been?

[BRL]

Talking to a chap a few days ago who said he flew for just under five hours last year in one go.

Also know of a glider pilot who flew from Parham(East Sussex) up to South Wales (Cardiff area) and back in one hit.

Anyone else here done such things?

Who/How/Where/When etc......... :)

[Chilli Monster]

Longest in a Glider - 5 Hours 45 mins

Longest powered (SEP) - 3 Hours 15 mins (Macon - Le Touquet with horrendous headwinds :( )

[Barnstormer1982]

Flying mate of mine did 5.5 hours in a glider two years ago - he decided to land despite of brilliant weather since he had forgotten to pee before the flight, didn't carry a bottle during, and was not able to "reach" the small left-hand window in the hood while staying in the air.

Fun was had by the ground grew but I nearly found wetting myself in the glider above the scene, seeing that bloke abandoning his a/c still on the concrete RWY to generate a 10m-stream of urine.

[Flying Lawyer]

4.9 hrs: Iceland - Greenland.
Direct track 671 nm.
Total time includes about .5 sightseeing over the ice cap before landing at Narsassuak.

En route Thruxton - Dallas, June 1989

Siai Marchetti SF-260 with ferry tank.

Fuel - getting near minimum reserve.
Bladder - getting near maximum capacity. ;)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/FlyingLawyer/Mach.jpg

[Aussie Andy]

In one go? LKP, Lake Placid (upstate NY) via the the St Lawrence Seaway / Thousand Islands and back to 44N, Sky Acres (near Connectitcet border) in my buddy's C170.

In distance? LELL Sabadell (near Barcelona) in a P28B Dakota, and back via LFEB Dinan.

Andy

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Ninteen hours and ten minutes from take off to landing.

[DubTrub]

Show-off, Chuck. Tell all.

[Flying Lawyer]

Chuck

Was that in a PBY?

[chrisN]

Just under 11 hours max time. See
http://www.comp-enterprise.com/entflights.html if you really want to know more.

On a different flight, max distance about 520 km in just over 8 hours.

Both in a glider, of course.

Best not to ask about liquid management arrangements.

Chris N.

[J.A.F.O.]

Can't beat Chuck but I have done 14hr 10min in one flight only to arrive back at the point I started from.

[Whirlybird]

Chuck,

That's not on! You can't just say that with no explanation!!!!! Tell us. We want to know all about it.

I can't even compete, never having flown anything with enough fuel capacity to even try. But maybe I win the shortest, lowest flight...on Dec 17th last year, desperate to be airborne on the anniversary of flight, but fogged in, I carefully hover-taxied an R22 at about 4ft hover height down about a third of Hawarden's runway and back. I think it was about 0.2, but I'd have to look it up to be sure. Anyone beat that? :) :D

[redsnail]

8 hours 17 minutes in an Islander on a search flying over the Indian Ocean at night.
Yep, bladder was getting a bit full....

[Flik Roll]

Chuck is probably some longhaul pilot...

[TheKentishFledgling]

I can't even compete, never having flown anything with enough fuel capacity to even try. But maybe I win the shortest, lowest flight...on Dec 17th last year, desperate to be airborne on the anniversary of flight, but fogged in, I carefully hover-taxied an R22 at about 4ft hover height down about a third of Hawarden's runway and back. I think it was about 0.2, but I'd have to look it up to be sure. Anyone beat that?

Yup - about one minute - stik's farm to a field near stik's farm!

;)

tKF

[helicopter-redeye]

Gamston to Rodez in a TB20, then on to Girona.

Rotary. Campbeltown Macrihanish to Gamston in an R44, which is about as far as humanly possible in the 44 between licensed airfields in the UK.

h-r

[AerBabe]

954 miles in around 8 hours for last year's Dawn to Dusk, with FlyingForFun. We went from Coventry to the Channel Islands, through France & Belgium and back through England. :zzz:

[S-Works]

5:29, limit of bladder and fuel!

[nouseforaname]

I did a 312nm trip in 3.5hrs

Ground speed rarely saw 90kts and had to climb to aviod some bumpy cumulus (spelt correct?) cloud which made it slow down even more...depressing speeds when you are used to a TAS of at least 140kts

[Chuck Ellsworth]

O.K. I guess I should elaborate on the 19 hour`10 minute non stop flight.

It was in 1968 in a PBY we took off with full fuel tanks and a load of jet fuel in ten gallon drums to refuel two Jetranger helicopters that were being ferried from Povungnituk in Northern Quebec to a site in the high Arctic.

The plan was to land in the water and refuel the helicopters during the ferry flight. However the weather did not co-operate and we ended up holding for many hours before finally having to abandon the helicopters and find an airport where the weather was landable, using HF we finally realized that there was nowhere that had suitable weather so we flew to Coral Harbour and started shooting approcaches, until finally we got a small hole in the fog and low ceiling and saw part of the runway and finally landed.

But that was no where near as bad as the medivac trip we took on a few months later in a DC 3 on wheel skis and ended up in the same situation, the weather went to hell with no alternate in range and we returned to Povungituk and started shooting NDB approaches in zero zero weather in a blinding snow storm, finally after twenty eight approaches we found the start of the runway and landed...lucky very lucky because we had almost run out of fuel by that time and had decided to just set up in a glassy water approach and land out on the ice on Hudsons Bay with zero zero visibility.

By the way we were doing very short oval approaches using the NDB and never climbing above two hundred feet, we alternated approaches with one pilot glued to the instruments and the other looking for the runway. ( A winter strip with flare pots marking the runway on the snow. )

At one point we hit the ground and bounced back into the air just as we started to lose height looking for the runway, it must have been a snow covered rock ridge as there there were some places where the ground was higher that the surrounding area...anyhow the f.ckin skis just hit the snow and bounced us right back in the air, but it did sort of get our heart rate going. :oh:

We of course saw nothing but white snow at any time during these approaches.

Finally I saw several Ski Doos with their lights on marking the start of the runway and pulled the mixtures to idle cutoff and the other pilot slammed the f.cker onto the snow and we had completed another trip in the Arctic. :ok:

Chuck E.

[Pitts2112]

Ed (tKF), you had me nearly spitting beer on my computer screen! Don't write things like that when I've got a mouthful, please? And I thought my cross-country from Duxford to Cambridge in a Supercub was a pretty short one! And I've been in and out of Stik's strip many times, but the closest I've ever landed was Old Buck or Seething (don't know which one's closer)!

Chuck, I'm in awe. You should commit some of those stories to print, ala Ernest K. You describe missions that, even if things had gone perfectly, would have had me bricking it!

Pitts2112

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Pitts2112 :

( I finally got to fly a Pitts S2B in Holland this past summer and am hooked on it, it was a really fun machine and I have decided to get back into aerobatics just to stay young. )

There are very few people with the gift of writing that Ernie Gann had, I knew Ernie quite well and in my mind no one has ever written aviation stories as well as he did. Last time I saw Ernie he was complaining about a Storm Scope he had just installed in his Wing Derringer, he lived in Friday Harbour about fifty miles from where I live.

Unfortunately I am merly just another pilot with limited brain power and very limited ability to write stories, not to mention that if I ever got started it would take years to relate some of the stuff I did during the past fifty one years trying to out think aircraft.

I have decided to cancel my decision to retire soon because I am going to take a crack at the unlimited aerobatic flying contests just for the hell of it.

So my new retirement date will be in 2015, I will be eighty then and want to change careers, by then I will have had enough of flying and plan on getting a job as quality control manager in a whore house. :ok:

Chuck

[MLS-12D]

Chuck (http://www.generalaviationnews.com/editorial/articledetail.lasso?-token.key=5069&-token.src=feature&-nothing) is too modest. I can refer you to the following samples of his writing here (http://chuckellsworth.com/about/stories.htm) ("Arcturus, the Missing Hours and Fate"; "Out of Africa - Four days in a Cat"; "The Highs and Lows of International Flying"; and "The Tobacco Fields").

I enjoyed reading his stories, and hope that he will write more.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Unfortunately I am merly just another pilot with limited brain power and very limited ability to write stories Er, that's not an excuse.

I have a (small) collection of books about northern flying (albeit mostly about Alaska rather than Canada), and I can't find you in the index of any of them ... so you must have lots of stories as yet unrecorded that are worth recording.

Sure, such books are sometimes written by pilots and sometimes not the sort of thing that would win literary prizes, but we're not buying them as works of literature!!

[Flying Lawyer]

OK, AerBabe, I give up. What type was it?

8 hours @ an average speed of almost 120 mph.
Mega ferry-tanks or in-flight refuelling?


Tudor :D

[MLS-12D]

albeit mostly about Alaska rather than Canada Sad, that!

Here's a few about flying in the Canadian north that you might want to obtain (Christmas presents for yourself?), if you don't already have them:

Don C. Braun, The Arctic Fox (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/059500329X/qid=1103148252/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-1798818-0303060) *

E.C. Burton, Wheels, Skis and Floats : the Northern Adventures of a Pioneer Pilot (http://www.hancockhouse.com/titles/wheels.htm)

Peter Corley-Smith, 10,000 Hours: Reminiscences of a Helicopter Bush Pilot (http://www.sononis.com/book002.stm)

John Dale, Snowshoes and Stethoscopes: Tales of Medicine and Flying in the Canadian Far North (http://www.flynorth.com/html/store.html)

Manley Fredlund, Skydancing (http://www.hancockhouse.com/products/skydan.htm)

Robert S. Grant, Bush Flying: The Romance of the North (http://ebushpilot.com/viewfrom.htm) *

Walter Henry, Uncharted skies: Canadian Bush Pilot Stories (http://www.canterburybooks.com/si/3831.html)

Jim Lang, Papa X-ray (http://www.aerotraining.com/html_gif/1244.htm) *

Denny McCartney, Picking Up the Pieces (http://www.trafford.com/robots/02-0415.html)

Rex Terpening, Bent Props and Blow Pots: a Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying (http://www.harbourpublishing.com/book.php?id=477)

Dick Turner, Wings of the North (http://www.hancockhouse.com/products/winnor.htm) *

Charles O. Weir, Vertical Ascent (http://www.hancockhouse.com/products/zzverasc.htm)

Larry Whitesitt, Northern Flight of Dreams (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0922993092/qid%3D1103148958/202-1798818-0303060)

Al Williams, Bush and Arctic Pilot (http://www.hancockhouse.com/products/busarc.htm)

And finally, four books that are not specifically about the North but I include anyway because I know you like float flying in British Columbia:

Justin De Goutiere, The Pathless Way (aka Pilot: Self-Portrait of a Brave Man (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0854290966/qid%3D1103149506/202-1798818-0303060)) *

Roy Mason, Ice Runway (http://www.alibris.com/search/detail.cfm?chunk=25&mtype=&wauth=Roy%20Mason&qwork=3087789&S=R&bid=8153042169&pqtynew=0&page=1&matches=16&qsort=r)

Jack Schofield, Flights of a Coast Dog: A Pilot's Log (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1550546775/qid=1103149824/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_0_7/202-1798818-0303060) *

Jack Schofield, No Numbered Runways (http://www.sononis.com/book112.stm)

I have marked with a * all titles that I specially recommend.

Happy reading!!!

MLS

P.S. Another book about a flying trip (in a float-equipped DHC3, natch) in the North that you might enjoy is Farley Mowat, High Latitudes (http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/1-58642-061-5.html). The author is not a pilot, but it is still quite an interesting book.

[AerBabe]

Well FL... it wasn't quite non-stop. I didn't have to climb out on the wing in my pink fluffy slippers to empty another can of unleaded into the tanks. ;) However, it was in one day...

[MLS-12D]

it wasn't quite non-stopThat's cheating! :O

[Andy_R]

I've had 2 days where I have logged over 5.5 hours total time but the longest at once has so far been 2.6 hours. Must try harder :D

[IO540]

I don't wish to detract from the reports here but a lot of the times are easily achievable in certain popular planes. A TB20 for example will stay up for >10hrs, probably nearer to 11, at 45% power, LOP, which is about 110kt ias. Even at 65% power, 140kt or so, it will go for 7:30 hours.

The need to pee is very easily addressed with the plastic bottle thingy from Transair etc. It just isn't wise to have a drink in the hour or two before takeoff, or a coffee in the preceeding few hours. To stay fresh, eat strawberries when up there :O

[skydriller]

MLS-12D,

Thanks for those links. Having read a little, Chuck is indeed being modest and I also hope he can spare a little time to write some more of his stories.

Regards, SD..

[FlyingForFun]

Well FL... it wasn't quite non-stopTrue, AerBabe. But we had to abandon two out of four of our intended fuel stops because of work in progress on the runway, or faulty fuel pumps. And the other two took forever because we managed to get behind RyanAir B737s in the refuelling queue at both of them. At one stage, I was beginning to wonder how far we could get on one tank.....

My personal longest flight without a stop was Phoenix to Los Angeles - or maybe it was Los Angeles to Phoenix, two days later - I can't remember without checking my logbook. About 4 hours each way in a Piper Arrow. Absolutely beautiful flight coming back... but going to Los Angeles I was flying through sandstorms for much of the journey, and was absolutely knackered when I arrived at Los Angeles. And that's not a good state to be in when you have to tackle the Los Angeles airspace for the first time ever!

FFF
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[jayemm]

Excuse my ignorance, but what's a PBY?

I was quite chuffed with my 3.5 hours from Islay to Blackbushe in a Warrior until I read this thread!

[Flying Lawyer]

PBY = PBY Catalina.

http://www.pbyflighttraining.com/images/b-senegal2.jpg

http://www.pbyflighttraining.com/images/b-capetown.jpg

[dublinpilot]

Never mind fuel running out.......after 2 hours, my wallet has run dry!!

[BigStu]

I know a guy who flew a PA28 from Le Touquet to the North East of England without any electrics. Not deliberately, the alternator failed. Took him 4 hours following roads and railways to avoid the East coast MATZ's. He had originally turned back to Le Touquet but, being a Sunday, was unable to find and engineer.

To make matters worse, due to weight problems he had put his bag in my aircraft before leaving France and forgotten to take his passport out. Customs at Le Touquet wouldn't let him leave again untill UK customs reported sight of his passport to them. At this point we didn't know we had his passport, so on arrival our backsides were knitting buttons when we saw the posse of HMC&E officers waiting for us.

[PhilD]

Nothing too impressive by the standards on this thread, but my longest non-stop is 3:50 VFR from Blackbushe to Konstanz in southern Germany last May, and a very pleasant flight it was too!

[stillin1]

10:40, strapped to a bang seat and in a jet with a duff autopilot over the South Atlantic. Oh wot fun! Wet meself without laughter!:{ I know many who did longer but this was my personal low.

[Brooklands]

Well the longest distance I've done in a single flight is small beer compared to some others here. It was a few years ago now flying a C-182RG back from Le Mans to Wycombe which is a bit over 200 nm. At the time it was the longest distance (>200nm), longest duration (>2hr), and highest (FL075) that I'd flown.

I've done a longer duration flight since then, making up hours for my licence revalidation, but that started and finished at Wycombe. It wouldn't have been so long if I hadn't been told that the 1hr flight with the instructor DIDN'T count as part of the 12 hours :mad:

Brooklands

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Flying Lawyer :

Hey, I can even tell you where and when those pictures were taken.

The first one was C-FCRR in Saint - Louis Senegal taken on Oct. 17/1998. We were on our way from Toulouse to Santiago on the Aeropostale memorial flight.

The second one was N9521C taken in December of 1998 about forty miles east of Cape Town South Africa. I was doing type rating training on that lake for the owner and a couple of his friends. Later I flew 21C from South Africa to London England with a seven month stop in Jeddah Saudi Arabia for an engine change ( took three trips to Jeddah to get it done. )

Then we used it in the Merimax film "Below "and finally in 2003 I ferried it to Suffolk Virginia via the North Atlantic route.

Chuck E.

[The Trolls' Troll]

10 days of getting a microlight, the great Thruster 600 SPRINT, no less. An amazing 70kts cruise speed. Did I have fun?
An amazing tour up to the western isles of Scotland from SE England. Scenery to die for. Scenery coming out of your ears. It's all here in good old Britain. The same distance would take you to Bordeaux or Lyons, from the SE of England. Abroad, the food is probably, on average a bit better, but for variety of scenery you can't beat Britain.
One of my assistants came back from a world tour (obligatory apparently for those under 25). She could not believe the spectacular photographs of the West of Scotland or even her native Lake District. They were better than anything, or at least as good as any of hers. She had a limited view of the world, of course, but that is something that you learn when you fly round the world. You can't see it all. It's too big for one person.
That's my furthest so far. I flew out to Gigha and Mull.
Once I'd done that I said, I'm an aviator. Forget your CAA. Yes they gave me a licence long before this event, but as far as I, personally, was concerned, I didn't have a licence until I had completed this trip.
A provocative viewpoint perhaps, but that is my view.
For the first time, since leaning to fly,I said, yes, you can take passengers. You are a competent pilot and navigator.
Anybody else felt the same?

[javelin]

Little aeroplanes :

5 1/2 hours one December day fetching a Champ up from Devon to Yorkshire. Non radio, 2 fuel stops, rather cool at the end of it. Following the M5, wagons were passing us the groundspeed was so slow.

Big aeroplanes:

14:30 hrs non stop, direct MAN - SOC (Indonesia) in an A330 with about 15 people and 4 tonnes of spares on board. Landed with enough gas to probably reach Darwin !

11:20 hrs MAN - LAS A330 with a full load............... No, there wasn't much left when we got there !

[Wot No Engines]

In my own glider (best l/d of 35:1),

Longest time - 5h54m (270km covered)
Longest distance - 520km (in just over 5 hours)
Fastest - 113kph (508km in 4h30m - 4h40m total flying time)

Fastest in any glider - 160kph over 330km (best l/d of 58:1)

Almost never actually flying at the best l/d speed though - it's too fast for climbing and too slow to cover good distance (providing good climbs are available)

[bintheredonethat]

Bringing cessna 182 from Johannesburg to london. 07hrs:10mins

Longest leg all over inhospitable jungle from Kasane , Botswana

to Luanda Angola.
All no radio contact.

[Pitts2112]

Chuck,
Sorry so late getting back. Lost track of which thread I'd been contributing to!

Having read just a brief bit from the link previously posted, you're being modest about your writing talent. And, hell, even if you can't spell your own name, your stories really need to be recorded for posterity. Have you thought of dictating them to someone you trust with them? Or maybe just sit and talk to someone who can than turn your conversation into ink on paper? Either way, you ought to be recorded somehow.

And, yeah, the Pitts is a pretty magic machine, isn't it? Been my desire to own one since I was about 14 and first heard about them. Sure they won't do what a Sukhoi or a Cap will do, but they'll do it with more grace, style and elegance than any of those newcomers can ever muster! Glad to hear you're back into it. Would love to hear how you get on as you go!

Pitts2112

[Tokoloshe]

11.2 Hours, Cessna 206 Luxor to Djibouti.
One leg of a ferry flight from Israel to South Africa.
Aircraft was fitted with a 140 US Gal ferry tank. Had a total of 16 hours endurance. We were four aircraft in formation; had so much fun, did the trip again a few months later.
Make sure you have everything you need on the seat in front with you (including the bog-roll:ok:

[Tinstaafl]

Did an overnighter from Sydney, NSW to Tenant Creek, Northern Territory in an Aerostar once. Just shy of 9 hours although there were a couple of fuel stops involved so might not count for longest flight.

[cumulusrider]

Longest 7hr 35min in a glider (500km attempt)
Longest distance lynham to singapore in a VC10

Shortest about 12 seconds with a glider cable break

[Romeo Tango]

13:30 Luxor to Malta in my Robin Aiglon (with a headwind)

[9 lives]

As co pilot, 13.5 hours airborne, Rotterdam to Rhodos Greece in a Twin Otter (with long range tanks).

As pilot, in my amphibian last summer along the St Lawrence Rive, with a 40 MPH headwind - 6.9 hours.

In one day, 15.1 hours, Just north of Toronto, to Key West, Florida in my 150.

[S-Works]

This some thread revival......

Interesting looking back at the start of the flight my longest flight was 5.5hrs. I wish most of them were that short these days!

[ChickenHouse]

7h10, approx 660 nauticals, C172 long range and turtle, Big John was my best companion, even had one of these blue gaz burner to cook, would not advise to do that and won't do it again!

[Pace]

Chuck as a quality control manager do you get to test them first before they are let loose to the general public :ok:

My longest flight 32 hrs over 4 days Florids USA to Durban S Africa via Iceland and South in a Little Cessna :E Carrying only 5800 ibs of fuel :{

Pace

[bartonflyer]

4 hrs 50 minutes Ostend to Prague in a Cherokee6 - happy days

[Above The Clouds]

In 6 days 75hr Florida to Middle East, the longest sector was 15hr 45min non stop in a PA28, but the crazy thing was did it 4 times in row over an 8 week period.

[Heady1977]

Longest flights (solo - gliding):
4hr35min
4hr47min
5hr2min minus 8min for aerotow... I've given up for now!

Longest flights (dual - gliding):
Just shy of 7hrs - Jondaryan to somewhere around Wallumbilla and back...

The above are from memory - when I get a chance will check logbook and correct as needed.

[7of9]

5 hours 45 mins in a glider for my duration flight for the silver badge, spent most of it around Lincoln as was based at Scampton in Humber Gliding Club.

PPL Cessna 172 longest flight 2 hours 20 mins, Humberside to Le Touquet. Same duration on return trip same day!

:ok:

[sharpend]

I think I hold both records :)

But perhaps one that will never be beaten is the shortest flight from one international RAF airfield to another..... 12 seconds... But where was it from & to???

ps I logged 5 minutes!!

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

C-152 Goose Bay - Narsarsuaq 11.3 hours. No autopilot of course, 2.7 hrs actual over the icecap. Part of a ferry from Arizona - Israel (86.8 hrs total)
Also 10.0 hrs Reykjavik-East Midlands, same ferry.

Sharpend Guess: Luqa-Safi?

[nonsense]

I have decided to cancel my decision to retire soon because I am going to take a crack at the unlimited aerobatic flying contests just for the hell of it.

So my new retirement date will be in 2015, I will be eighty then and want to change careers, by then I will have had enough of flying and plan on getting a job as quality control manager in a whore house. (http://www.pprune.org/private-flying/155707-how-far-has-your-longest-flight-been-2.html#post1651940)

Well? It's 2015 now! Whorehouse QC or aerobatic contests?

[sharpend]

Fox3, Close but no cigar!

It was Halfar to Luqa. It is now just one runway, but in 1967 I lifted off, got to 20 feet, then touched down as I had to cross a road and a stone wall.

[thing]

5hrs 40 in a glider, bloody glad to get down from that, I was freezing having spent most of the flight at around 9,000'. (Funnily enough that's higher than I've been in an SEP) and 3 hrs from Lincoln to Oban in a headwind for powered.

[mary meagher]

My longest single flight in a glider (Pegasus single seat, wingspan 15 meters, glide ratio 40 to one) was EIGHT HOURS AND FIFTY THREE MINUTES! 8 hr. 53 min.
In a regional competition from Husbands Bosworth.

After you have been launched by aerotow, you have to faff around local until EVERY other glider has been offered a launch (50 gliders in the comp.) And then you can start on the assigned task, which was FIVE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN KILOMETERS. Of the 50 gliders, 27 completed the task. I was the slowest to complete, so I didn't win....but that was the Diamond Distance at last, for me. Very very satisfying on all counts. Especially getting back (just ) on the last thermal of the day....over the LIFT factory in Northampton!
Looking at the bugs splatted all over my wings, I wondered what effect that had on the performance....but the good news was a 5 knot tailwind. When I called "987, 3 minutes" to the observers at the finish line, and dived down over them so they wouldn't miss my arrival, they radioed "987, good finish. OK, boys, you can shut down the finish line now, she finally got back....."

In power, I hardly ever fly for more than two hours before taking a break, same as driving a car. As far as distance covered, flew from Texas to Michigan to New Jersey to Florida and back to Texas to return the Warrior to
the base at Georgetown, Texas. That would have been in 1990. Visiting grandchildren. Good old PA28 161, N43885.

My own aircraft, Supercub GOFER, 150 hp taildragger with hook for pulling up gliders, flew that from Shenington to Alicante and back in February, 1991. Took 7 days altogether, and 33.6 hours flying time. Visited Shoreham, Le Touquet, Chartres, LeBlanc,St. Julien, Cahors, Albi, Perpignan, Gerona, Sabadell, Valencia, ALICANTE, Reus, Gerona, Perpignan, St. Julien, Le Blanc, Amboise Derrier, LeMans, Le Touquet, Lydd, Lasham, and home again (Edgehill). Took 7 days, got lost, weathered down in fog. All good experience.

[Ebbie 2003]

My longest flight was my first cross country and second solo after getting my PPL.

My first solo wasthree touch znd goes so about ten minutex.

The next one the following day was 4:30 and 500mile ldg from NJ to Harnett County with an over flight of Kittyhawk on the way.

When I landed and refueled it taught me that I really didn't know how to lean my engine - the first upgrade to the airplane was an egt!

[FullWings]

Longest and furthest power: 17h39m and 9,207 miles
Longest gliding: 11h12m
Furthest gliding: 1,260Km
Shortest (intentional): <5 seconds, bungee launch in primary glider (why!?)
Shortest (unintentional): DR400, <15 seconds, aborted aerotow due windshear, just got airborne

[Denham 182 flyer]

3h45, Malta to Figari in a PA 32. 3h20 Auch to Cherbourg and 3h15 Bremerhaven to Denham, both in a PA 28.

[Chilli Monster]

6H20 Schefferville - Iqaluit with a divert to Kujjuaq. Total that day was 12H10 - part of my return journey from Oshkosh to the UK.

[thing]

Iqaluit with a divert to Kujjuaq

You know when you land at places like that do you hope (usually in vain) that you pronounce the names correctly?

[Chilli Monster]

All the time!

Most of the inebriated Inuit outside the "hotel" wouldn't have understood anything I'd said anyway :)

[chrisbl]

4hrs 10 mins from Middleton (C29) to Niagara Falls Int (KIAG.)