AngelAirways From United Kingdom, joined Nov 1999, 500 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 2485 times:
I've seen photos on Airliners of Caribbean Airlines ATR72-600 at Lanzarote (ACE) and Recife (REC) on its delivery flight to POS. Recife is a significant deviation south but with range limitations on a turboprop i suppose it is necessary. (One still wonders why not Natal which seems closer?)
I also looked at Great Circle mapper and was wandering if there are any other stops. AGP? SID? And then is there enough ferry range to make it from SID to REC nonstop? (There's nowhere to stop anyway!)
Also is the final leg REC-POS or is there another stop?
If anyone knows the actual delivery routing or has knowledge of flight planning that could share that's be great. I'm just curious!
rfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6150 posts, RR: 25 Reply 1, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 2464 times:
The 1323 NM from SID to FEN is the shortest hop possible across the Atlantic - so the aircraft obviously has that range at empty weight or with ferry tanks.
bjorn14 From Norway, joined Feb 2010, 2776 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1747 times:
Quoting rfields5421 (Reply 1): The 1323 NM from SID to FEN is the shortest hop possible across the Atlantic - so the aircraft obviously has that range at empty weight or with ferry tanks.
I saw something that said that an empty ATR72 has a range of 2000nm
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