What's the longest distance you've flown?
 

What's the most distance you've flown from your home base?

I just got a phone call from my boss this afternoon telling me that next wednsday me and a friend will ferry two 206L4's from Mexico City, Mexico to Bogota, Colombia, the trip is aproximately 2000 NM, and this is the longest trip I've flown yet. I'm looking forward to it, even if it means that the line in my butt will be completely erased in 5 days!

mexico, guatemala, hounduras, nicaragua, costa rica, panama, colombia, Looooots of paperwork!

Deadhorse, Alaska to Layfayette, Louisana in a 500D......almost got to do a Adana, Turkey to Lagos, Nigeria trip....would have been about 6,500 miles.

Torrance, CA, to Naples, FL - back in the early nineties, happy days...
Took 3 and a half days flat! :)

Lagos to London in an S76A

Melbourne to Darwin in a 206B

Brother

3.5hrs across the tundra, in an R22 with a net load of crap underneath. Fortunately had a jerry-can of fuel... :D

London to Moscow In a Gazelle, via Antwerp, Hamburg, Copenahgen, Linkoping,Stockholm,Helsinki , (2 days)St Petersburg and Kalina.(1 week) Red tape in Russia

Istanbul to Norwich in a 206L3 via Thessolonika, Corfu, Brindisi, Pescara, Bologna, Nice, St Enntein, Calais and Southend (2 days)

Both great trips in various weather patterns! along with plenty of trips of upto 1500miles away from the UK.

Why does the 206 give you Rhino. (Rhino sore arse)

:cool:

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Longest one I ever did was at Night flying a Cobra. Length of time was between when the 10% light came on and I landed.
On a more serious note, I just had the fun of Ferrying a B206L from Tucson, AZ to St Thomas, VI.

longest flight
 

Burma to Brunei....

In an SK76A with the aux tank. Several stops in between. Great experience and lots of people to meet and places to enjoy.

D.K

5,300 kms Cairns to Adelaide and return via Bendigo, Victoria and east coast Australia (would have been more but the weather got bad and I got a commercial flight home.
Co-pilot in an R44 2001

3400 kms Anti clockwise round Queensland, Australia
Solo in R22 April 2002

Both part of "Secret Men's Business" tours

have a look at http://secretmensbusiness.homestead.com for the evidence :D

he he!

i'm planning on flying west virginia to los angeles with a good friend of mine next summer in a Bell 47!!!!

Never been to the states before so should be fun, if not a rather long trip!

So you have all accomplished long journeys
 

But how many have had the wisdom , to put a camera in the left hand seat.
Perhaps, the Pprune captains should start a new forum: photos/ taken from my flying machine.

I have taken lots of pictures
 

Capt Notarius

I usually take tons of pictures, actually I just recently traded my old digital, for a brand new Sony Cybershot 707 which takes great pictures!

Visit my Helicopters and Heliports page, but I have got another 8000 pictures taken from my helicopter, ranging from afica to central and south america, and I would love to share them! That idea sounds great!

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/he...toAlbum15.html

Done 920 NM ish in one hit, 8hr 15 min (Includes 30 min hover and no refuel).

As the FTE I got the uncomfortable jump seat (a lovely 2 bits of flat metal at 90 degrees, only the cushion we took with us for comfort). Luckily there were 2 of us to swap around for a spell on the almost comfortable seat in the back.

Elstree to oil platform in the Caspian sea, 40 NM east of Baku.

Longest non-stop in a C172 was Ogden, Utah to San Jose, CA with long rang tanks.
Longest Non Stop was Hayward, CA to Omaha, Nebraska. Longest trip San Jose, CA to Miami and back

Way back in 1952
 

I flew as a flight mechanic in an HTL-1 (early Bell 47) from Miami, Florida to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York. When we got there we found that we had the wrong swash plate and the engine basket was cracked. The owners of the helo (Miami Coast Guard Air Station) neglected to tell us when we took possession of the helicopter.


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Nairobi, Kenya to Nuuk in in West Greenland, pausing only in UK for an arse transplant. Actually, since it was in a AS350 it was reasonably comfortable. Surprising amount of water though - the globe is truly only 25% land! Wouldn't do it without a GPS:cool:

MBJ, Always suprised that when having the transplant you didn't order a smaller model.

Regards Ed

Rotary:
Nothing special - yet! But if anyone as a spare left seat on a long trip, let me know. :)

Fixed-wing:
Thruxton - Glasgow - Reykjavik - Narssarssuaq - Goose Bay - Quebec - Syracuse - Indiannapolis - Mena, Arkansas delivering a Siai Marchetti SF.260. Then (after a change of aircraft to a C172) on to Dallas to catch a flight home.

When I was about 10, I flew from the top of my garage, but unfortunately it ended in a hard landing:( :D :(

But it must have been a good landing because I walked away!

In an airplane, C172RG, Lake Charles, La to Elmira, NY and back.

In a helicopter, (S76) Lake Charles to Portland, Ore. as a mech. in the left seat. One of the best trips of my life.

Chuck

Hong Kong- Toronto
Cathay Pacific CX828
Business Class so there!

Thank you Ed Thrust 111 - I know where you live - you WILL be punished!:D

Exmouth , Western Australia to Shannon , Eire 1980 in an S61 with Dave Whyte. 11 days and 105 flight hours.

Peter wins :D :D

Still in sunny China, Pete? You forgot to mention your trusty engineer, asleep in the back when he wasn't pumping fuel ;)

And the wine bars in Kinsale..........

Adelaide - South Australia to Songkhla -Thailand - S76

Karratha - Western Australia to Manila -Philippines - S76

Manila -Philippines to Songkhla -Thailand - S76

Manila -Philippines to Jakarta- Indonesia - S76

All Great Trips!:cool:

very fishy!!!
 

Obviously a couple of fellow, past/ present Okanagan errr....CHC colleagues!!!

Huh!!!

D.K

As a float plane pilot & heli pax
 

:D :D :D

Best trip ever !!!

July 03 93, left Montreal and came back early august after
63 hrs of flying to Blanc Sablon Quebec, stoping occasinnally
fishing the lakes and rivers. Fabulous trip we were two C-180
on floats each with a partner.

Heli was YVR to Whisller for a day of skiing in a A350.

;) ;) ;)

I've flown most of the trip mentioned in thread 1, Belize to Columbia. Met some interesting guns and their owners. Use cigarettes as bribes and don't flash the dollars, especially in Nicaragua. Fuel quality can be poor!!

Colorado Springs, Co. to Heidelberg, Ge.

From Marseille (france)- Zwolle (holland)

Zwolle (holland) - Poniatowa ( eastern Poland)

in a EC 120 b
;)

German I know once flew from Benalla to Tenterfield (1032 klm) in a ASW 20 - that's a glider!

Only landed 'cos he was thirsty!

The retrieve took four days!:D

Not the longest distance, but the longest overall ache: Hiller 12E, gaggle of four, from Culdrose to Nuremberg (sp?) and return. Took a day each way to get from Culdrose to Manston :eek: And of course, rubber boats had to be worn for the Channel crossing, which took up 90% of all available baggage space for the rest of the trip :rolleyes:

4 days each way, IIRC, and numerous stops to recover. Memorable was the flight of F-104G's that cruised by under us, fortunately we were at a nose bleeding 500 feet..........

Not the longest for the helo (collapse to hosp--- 8 miles /4 minutes) but the patient went from Heaven (flat line) to Earth (he walked out a week later)

Just one is worth it all!

On an airplane bound to nowhere.
 

On a DC-8- 63 Combi from Dallas-Ft Worth to Tehran, Iran via Bangor, Maine and Frankfurt, Germany.

:cool:

record distance helicopter ferry flight
 

well first my humble apologies to "Heli"....hello Ken...yes , still in China (sunny Hainan Island at the moment). Heli was indeed on board and have fond memories of him supplying numerous coffees to we drivers up front. ..to keep us awake. Hell , it was a long trip.....what an adventure.

HOWEVER...I dont think it is a record....I have heard that there may have been a longer ferry by another 61 possibly Court ???

Just to add to the story....in 1991 , Blaine Foreman , myself and Mike Senuik/Bob ? ferried another 61 from Vancouver to Bombay.

Now it will never happen but if I cud ferry another 61 from Singapore to Vancouver (EAST thru Russia....it has been done twice by Rod Legassick) then I will have circumnavigated the world in a 61.....dreaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

490 nm on one tank of fuel = A119 Koala.
Athens to Amsterdam with only two refuel stops. Not a record I know but that's what we did one day this year

Certainly not a record but an S61 from Aberdeen to Andoya and back via Tondheim and several other stops as a civvy supporting the Navy. The distance was extended as usual because they told us where they thought they were and then we had to find the b*ggers!
Having had the plank transplant, just did a butt numbing 2 crew 9:45 from Manilla to Dubai.
Mind you, on the 61 it was Bill and Ben (Pete Garland and Ray Smith) keeping the tea and bikkies going. Not as pretty as the present cabin crew but the jokes were good!:D
Happy landings!

Here Goes!

Luxembourgh-Colmar-Bern-Milan-Brindisi-Athens-Izmir-Ankara-Trabzon-TBlisi-Baku. 7 Days and lots of fun. Between FL100-120. In an S76A++.

20.5 hours flight time. Loved it.

Cheers, :eek: OffshoreIgor :eek: