What's the longest distance you've flown?
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No really long ones like some of the contributors here, though always enjoyed ferry flights - even those where I got arrested, aircraft impounded, ran out of money etc.
The shortest was an S58ET from Aberdeen to Portugal. I've done many others. Bell 212s UK to Egypt and UK to Teheran, but I love taking helicopters to Africa the best. I've been across the Sahara and down the west coast and I love the west coast routes best. It's always great going through the mountains in Morocco and then either the long sea crossing to the Canaries, or nowadays the route through Western Sahara is also open. It always amazes me seeing where the Sahara meets the Atlantic and sand just becomes sea in an abrupt vertical stop, with the wind whipping the sand from the top. I love then encountering the lushness of the forests and swamps as one arrives in Senegal and the vastness of Mali with that maazing lake with the vertical sided islands in it. The people of Burkina Fasso always make it worth while stopping there, and I'd love to revisit on holiday one day. It's also great if the weather's good, after hundreds of miles of mangrove swamps in the Niger Delta, to suddenly see the bulk of Mont Cameroun on one side and Malabo on the other. I hope I'll have the opportunity to do some more, though as I get older it will probanly be more difficult, b ut I'd dearly love to have the opportunity to finish off the west coast with a ferry from Nigeria to South Africa
The shortest was an S58ET from Aberdeen to Portugal. I've done many others. Bell 212s UK to Egypt and UK to Teheran, but I love taking helicopters to Africa the best. I've been across the Sahara and down the west coast and I love the west coast routes best. It's always great going through the mountains in Morocco and then either the long sea crossing to the Canaries, or nowadays the route through Western Sahara is also open. It always amazes me seeing where the Sahara meets the Atlantic and sand just becomes sea in an abrupt vertical stop, with the wind whipping the sand from the top. I love then encountering the lushness of the forests and swamps as one arrives in Senegal and the vastness of Mali with that maazing lake with the vertical sided islands in it. The people of Burkina Fasso always make it worth while stopping there, and I'd love to revisit on holiday one day. It's also great if the weather's good, after hundreds of miles of mangrove swamps in the Niger Delta, to suddenly see the bulk of Mont Cameroun on one side and Malabo on the other. I hope I'll have the opportunity to do some more, though as I get older it will probanly be more difficult, b ut I'd dearly love to have the opportunity to finish off the west coast with a ferry from Nigeria to South Africa
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See a couple of posts from the Okanagan boys, Peter M probably had the longest one [ flying hours anyway ] but there are lots of other ferry flights out there from Vancouver to Inda,and Thailand, some going the Greenland, Iceland, UK route, and the latter ones through Russia, must be some interesting stories amongst them, lets hear them.
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I said 8 days flying, not 8 days total time!
We did have a couple of days off along the way
The Hyatt in Muscat would have been perfect but for the fact that ramadan restricted our beer consumption to between 6pm and midnight!!
Probably just as well, on reflection.
I said 8 days flying, not 8 days total time!
We did have a couple of days off along the way
The Hyatt in Muscat would have been perfect but for the fact that ramadan restricted our beer consumption to between 6pm and midnight!!Probably just as well, on reflection.
Vertalop,
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glad to hear it; my confidence is restored
Twenty minute flight in a Chinook on June 14,1970,from Vietnam to Cambodia and return.....sat in a hydraulic fed cockpit fire for what seemed a lifetime...then did a GCA to a SpecForces base. Maintain a special feeling for BurgerKing burgers till this day as a result.
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Longest Flight
Personally, this isnt so far. Only Shoreham - Pamplona and back, for the Running of the bulls festival, back in 2003
On behalf of a good mate Decimal who can't post at the mo (Connection problems). He and a friend flew an R-22 (Beta) from Carp Airport (Just outside Ottawa) to the Florida Keys, down the eastern seaboard. Then flew back via the Heli Expo in Dallas to Ottawa. Took him 5 weeks. This was by the way in the middle of winter. I believe the temp range was -30 to +30
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On behalf of a good mate Decimal who can't post at the mo (Connection problems). He and a friend flew an R-22 (Beta) from Carp Airport (Just outside Ottawa) to the Florida Keys, down the eastern seaboard. Then flew back via the Heli Expo in Dallas to Ottawa. Took him 5 weeks. This was by the way in the middle of winter. I believe the temp range was -30 to +30
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MD
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Aldergrove, Northern Ireland to Rouen, France for the World Helicopter Championships. Stopped in Blackpool, Gloucester, Middle Wallop and Lydd for fuel. Flew the Journey back in formation with the team manaager and a colleague, probabaly the longest formation I have flown and lead!
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Longest ferry flight for me; a Super Puma from Trelew, Argentina (43S) to St John's, Nfld, Canada (47N). 65 hours flying time.
Great trip. Lots of great sight seeing and interesting problems enroute. Everyone is used to fast and large movers ferrying around the world but not helicopters. Lots of extortion enroute, inflated fuel prices and airport fees, etc.
Great trip. Lots of great sight seeing and interesting problems enroute. Everyone is used to fast and large movers ferrying around the world but not helicopters. Lots of extortion enroute, inflated fuel prices and airport fees, etc.
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Longest single leg on a ferry flight was with a Super Puma from Porto Velho to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. 756 nm.
Sorry, error. It was Porto Velho to Corumba, same distance. Foz do Iguacu was the next leg.
Sorry, error. It was Porto Velho to Corumba, same distance. Foz do Iguacu was the next leg.
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several long ones
Fort Worth to Caracas in a 222,
Paris to Cairo and return in a 412SAR,
Quito to SaoPaulo by way of Santiago Chile in a 206L-1,
Singapore to Dhaka in a 206L-4,
Singapore to Manila in a 430 and a 222U (2 different trips),
and a ton of shorter ones
That's enough, I'm tired just remembering them
Paris to Cairo and return in a 412SAR,
Quito to SaoPaulo by way of Santiago Chile in a 206L-1,
Singapore to Dhaka in a 206L-4,
Singapore to Manila in a 430 and a 222U (2 different trips),
and a ton of shorter ones
That's enough, I'm tired just remembering them
Longest 'day trip' was Townsville-Georgetown-Burketown-Boroloola-Tindal In a Kiowa (10hrs stick and 3 drum refuels).
A couple of round Aus and PNG also, courtesy of the taxpayer. Great fun.
Now in a Boeing, the distances seem rather surreal- but the bum and lower back are A LOT happier!
A couple of round Aus and PNG also, courtesy of the taxpayer. Great fun.
Now in a Boeing, the distances seem rather surreal- but the bum and lower back are A LOT happier!
Short ones
Someone asked for shortest trips.
I crewed on frost protection one night and spent 6½ hours over one kiwi fruit plantation. Never moved more than a few hundred yards.
Cheers
ET
I crewed on frost protection one night and spent 6½ hours over one kiwi fruit plantation. Never moved more than a few hundred yards.
Cheers
ET