What's the longest distance you've flown?

[psyan]

From Kuantan 300 NM due East. Miles not as many as some but trust me here......that was the longest flight I ever did!!!!!

[funfinn2000]

R22

I had to ferry a 22 from Portland Oregon to West Palm Beach, I had my good freind help me fly the thing back. Took 6 days and 46 hours. 2 Irish lads on mission to get back on St Paddys day. I-5 South to I-10 east-ish

[vaqueroaero]

Took 6 days and 46 hours.

So you could say that it took 7 days and 22 hours, or a week and 22 hours!

[funfinn2000]

It was an R22 and it took 6 days and 46 hrs flight time, great flight but tricky at high DA in Texas and New Mexico.

[Venator]

I once ferried an AS350 from Mackay in QLD through outback Australia to Adelaide SA and back again in a B3 via Gladstone, took just over ten hours flying each way, not much to look at except red dirt, the odd track, maybe a homested, oh and more red dirt. Still a good trip and nav was a challenge ( I did'nt feel comfortable sitting like a numpty and relying solely on the GPS)

[bellboy]

S61 Dacca-Aberdeen

Bangladesh-Scotland
Dacca-Calcutta-Bupeneshwar-Nagpur-Ahmadebad-Karrachi-Pasni-Muscat-Dubai-Dharan-Rhiyad-Medina-Luxor-Alexandria-Heraklion-Corfu-Ancona Falconara-Nice-Lyon-North Denes- Aberdeen.
Great took about six months at 100Kts

[Head Turner]

My longest journey started on the afternoon in early April 1966 in a Hiller 12B at Middle Wallop as a fledgling Army pilot. The journey has taken me to much of Europe with the AAC, corporate flying, instructing and police and power line work. This has been done at night, in blisteringly hot sunshine, bloody freezing artic conditions, the usual rain, cloud and wind and some bumpy turbulence. Worst place I remember was Sennybridge ranges. I have covered most of Europe, dawdling in places like Northern Ireland and Germany. On the way I have met some awful people who I have pittied and forgotten. However, there are, thank goodness the vast majority of people associated with helicopters, the engineers and the ground support people who I shall sorely miss when finally touching down in an EC135 in Cumbria on 28th June 2007. This mamoth flight has taken me just a few hours short of 15,000. This is my longest journey. Full of memories and well recorded in several log books, photographs and retained memos.
Thanks to you all.

[Tango and Cash]

Head Turner, great post. Congrats on a great career and best wishes on whatever is next. It's all one long flight, with the occasional ground stops in between.

[Efirmovich]

Good Luck with the future HT.... if I have 10% of your flying experience's I will be content !

E.

[Head Turner]

Thanks Tango and Cash and Efirmovich for your kind words. I have now completed my final flight and believe it or not, the weather was wonderfully awful, blowing a gale, low cloud and drizzle.
Bye to you all,
regards
Head Turner

[pinho_fap]

600 NM non stop, all over water, between LPPS and LPLA (from Porto Santo, close to Madeira Island, to Lajes AB, Azores), in a EH101 Merlin. All on autopilot

[fijdor]

Actually not a very long flight as such compared to others but it was the longest flight with a sling load (longline) in my career 620 miles. There was 4 of them and all by hand no AP. One per day, 310 to go, 310 back.

JD

[Canuck Guy]

A little over 11,000 Km. It took 14 days, stopping in 13 countries over 3 continents.... one hell of a good time

[topendtorque]

I once ferried an AS350 from Mackay in QLD through outback Australia to Adelaide SA and back again in a B3 via Gladstone, took just over ten hours flying each way, not much to look at except red dirt, the odd track, maybe a homested, oh and more red dirt. Still a good trip and nav was a challenge ( I did'nt feel comfortable sitting like a numpty and relying solely on the GPS)

Possibly not the smartest thing to admit to here-abouts, over country that most would regard as very easy to map read. Like there's one little creek that goes pretty much all the way.

[Ainippe]

Redhill- Singapore in a Bell 212 circa 1980

I was engineer on a ferry flight from Redhill to Singapore at a time when we where moving aircraft out there. Also doing the same flights were Wolfgang Swann and Geoff Dentith.

Interesting if not an arse numbing two weeks (due to an AOG) and about 76 flying hours. Average leg was 5 hours with the ferry tanks - most unusual bit ...

Pasni in Pakistan - Fly once round the town for fuel or twice round the town if you required customs as well. All the fuel came in flimsies! Made the refuelling a long exercise.

Spent xmas day in Damascus and new years eve in Calcutta.

Worst moment following the road between Kasuma and Badana in Saudia Arabia - waking up and realising both the pilot and I had been asleep for 5 minutes - good old 212 still just chugging along at 90 knots at 3000' still following the road !!

[Foggy Bottom]

Have no idea of the distance flown, but I took off at approximately 0215 in 1967 (I believe it was in March) and except for refueling I did not get out of the aircraft untlil midnight of that same day. I went through 3 co-pilots and probably fired about 500 rockets and who knows how many 7.62's. Everytime we hit the rearm point someone was waiting with coffee/sodas and sandwiches.

[hoveratsix]

Aberdeen - Brasil

EC225 from Aberdeen via Scatsta - Vagar - Reykjavik - Kulusuk - Kangerlussuaq - Qikiqtarjuaq - Iqaluit - Kuujjuaq - Wabush - Halifax - Bangor - Bridgeport - Norfolk News - Charleston - W Palm Beach - Nassau - Turks and Caicos - Tortola, BVI - Tobago - Georgetown - Cayenne - Macapa - Sao Luis - Fortaleza - Natal - Salvador - Porto Seguro - Cabo Frio. Around about 9500nm! (17600km or 10935 statute miles). 18 days total, 14 flying days, 1 lost to weather in Reykjavik, 1 off in Halifax and 2 off in Tobago (FTL!!)

[RVDT]

A bit over 1900nm -

Madang - Goroka - Daru - Horn Island - Coen - Cairns - Townsville - Emerald - Roma - Tamworth - Bankstown.

Not that far, but pretty good going in Bell 206 single pilot and all done in daylight over 2 days! Pre GPS as well with a wet compass only!

I think the only options fitted to the aircraft were a cargo hook, high gear, VHF and HF.

YBCS got a little concerned that our TXPDR wasn't working. Went through all the rigmarole of recycling and blah blah, by then we were on the ground. They told us to get it fixed before departing. It didn't work the next day when we left either and by the time we gave up going through the recycle etc blah blah we had left the control zone with the instruction to get it fixed.

I suppose you would have to fit one first to fix it!

[Foggy Bottom]

is this Doug doing the Barrow to Dallas run?

[Spunk]

In my early times I was working as a pipeline jockey on an R44. I was paid a low basic salary plus a bonus for every flight hour. Instead of getting the job done in 4 days (average required flight time for that specific pipeline was 25 hours) I decided that it can be done in only 3 days.
Somewhere around 20:00 pm and some fuel stops later we (the observer and I) called it the day after realising that we had left the pipeline track for approx. 5 minutes without realising it and without knowing where we were. Upon landing at the nearest airfield we had a total of roughly 11 hours of flight time. Can't say how many miles we covered that day but that is the most flight time in a row I have ever flown in a single day.
As mentioned earlier: I was young and in need of that money ;-)