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Non-stop Solo Flight Around The World Unrefuelled  
User currently offlinePrebennorholm From Denmark, joined Mar 2000, 5810 posts, RR: 56
Posted (8 years 7 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1663 times:

Richard Branson and Steve Fossett have announced the launch of the first solo-piloted aircraft to fly non-stop round the world without refuelling.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/3204897.stm

Enjoy.


Always keep your number of landings equal to your number of take-offs, Preben Norholm
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User currently offlinePrebennorholm From Denmark, joined Mar 2000, 5810 posts, RR: 56
Reply 1, posted (8 years 7 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1648 times:

Sorry for double thread. I searched for the pilot name "Fossett" and found nothing. Should have searced for the financer Branson instead.


Always keep your number of landings equal to your number of take-offs, Preben Norholm
User currently offlineQwerty From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 377 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (8 years 7 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1625 times:

N377SF

I wouldn't call this nothing.  Smile/happy/getting dizzy

User currently offlineJhooper From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 6193 posts, RR: 15
Reply 3, posted (8 years 7 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1539 times:

They still couldn't log is as cross country time!  Big thumbs up


Last year 1,944 New Yorkers saw something and said something.
User currently offlineSLCPilot From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 477 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (8 years 7 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1435 times:

Cross country time? Sure they can, if they're counting it towards the ATP requirements per FAR 61.1(b)(3)(IV)(B), which reads.....

(iv) For the purpose of meeting the aeronautical experience requirements
for an airline transport pilot certificate (except with a rotorcraft category
rating), time acquired during a flight--
(A) Conducted in an appropriate aircraft;
(B) That is at least a straight-line distance of more than 50 nautical
miles from the original point of departure; and
(C) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic
navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems

It's neat to notice the flight does NOT require a landing at another airport. I recently logged 70 hours of XC time doing oil platform patrols offshore and, yes, I did count it as XC....

SLCPilot


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