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30 minutes ago, Mathijs Kok said:

What deadline? There is no deadline other then arriving back in London on time.

Haha, excellent Mathijs! :)

Ahh, I must have misunderstood the rules:

"You will create a forum topic where the first topic will contain your complete route, aircraft and other details before October 1st. "

I'll be there then!

Thanks for the relies chaps.

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Here we go again then :)

Set 1, divided into 7 legs to suit the times I have available to fly.  Settled on the trusty Kingair because I know how long it takes to get anywhere in my dear old Dragon Rapide ;)  I'd only get bored....

First flight, a quick jump over the Channel to Paris

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On to Turin

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Love the Alps

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For some strange reason I decided to head south at dusk!  This resulted in changing the destination to a different Rome airport :)

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Next, off to Brindisi

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That's better, more to see

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A really early start for the trip to Santorini

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Not a lot here, so I'll press on with my tight schedule

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Crossing the Med en route to Egypt

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A quick hop over to Port Said

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Sand

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Sand and green stuff approaching Port Said, now for a couple of pint's of Toby's cat's piss :):):)

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The story so far

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First set complete, now for some more sand!

 

Happy Landings people!

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Set 2 complete - Port Said Air Port El Gameel to Bombay

Early morning start after a night on Toby's camel piss ;)

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An unremarkable flight to Sharm el Sheikh

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Off to Medina

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Parked up at Riyadh

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Another dawn flight, this time to Abu Dhabi

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A bit of sand blowing around down there

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en route to Muscat

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Gwadar, Pakistan

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A bit misty for the onward journey to Karachi

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Weather is deteriorating as I leave for Rajkot

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Seems ok here though

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Onward to Bombay, however, someone built a tower block at the end of the runway!

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Sundown and Bombay is IFR....

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Here's the story so far

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Looking forward to the next set!

Happy landings!

 

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Set 3 complete

Bombay to Calcutta (or whatever the youngsters call them today...) ;)

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Very misty early on when leaving Bombay

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Tower view, strictly IFR

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A small strip in the middle of a jungle, interesting!

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A few more facilities at Calcutta

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Time for a curry and Elephant beer!

 

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The story so far, this is a different experience from the last RTW.  Brisk would be a good description ;)

Bring on Set 4..

 

 

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Set 4 complete

Calcutta to Chittagong

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A bit murky on landing :)

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On to Mandalay, in the rain

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then Xishuangbanna

 

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That ridge at the end of the runway is going to interesting at takeoff!

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Xishuangbanna to Noi Bai, Hanoi,  negotiated the ridge ok :)

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then Haikou Meilan International another dawn flight

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and finally to Hong Kong and a really early start!

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Default FSX cartoon scenery ;)  sorry....

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The story so far

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Set 5 coming up shortly

Cheers

 

 

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Set 5 complete, Hong Kong to Chofu

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Fish farm?

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Ahh, fuel!

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Mt Fuji

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Here's the trip so far...

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Next, the Pacific....

Happy landings

 

 

 

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Set 06 - Chofu to San Francisco

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New Chitose

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misty for takeoff leg to Yuzhno-Sahalinsk

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Yuzhno-Sahalinsk

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Off to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

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An early start for the leg to Eareckson Air Station

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Yet another dawn take off to Adak

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Colourful......

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To Cold Bay

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Nice mountains!

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Nice flight, I enjoyed that!

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From Cold Bay to Kodiak

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Crisp clear air at Kodiak

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Leaving for Anchorage

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After you, no, after you...... could be here a while ;)

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Off to Yakutat

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An authentic looking shack in default FSX

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And so, on to Annette Island

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Annette Island to Port Hardy

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Next leg to Portland

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And finally, for this batch:  Portland to San Francisco

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The trip so far

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The next set will take me across the centre of the USA

Happy landings peeps!

 

 

 

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Set 7 - The eastward trek across the US of A....  Fr'isco to NYC

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An early start for the trip from Denver to Kansas

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Hmm, a bit murky today.  Airport is IFR.....

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A bit moist in Pittsburgh

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NYC in sight

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And so to the story so far

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Looking forward to the final set to take me home!

 

 

 

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

The final set 8 - La Guardia to Heathrow in nine hops

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Landing at Saint John

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Ground temperatures are dropping!

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St. Anthony

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Narsarsuaq

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Early morning (night!) flight to Kulusuk

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Keflavik

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Keflavik to Vagar

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An "interesting" approach

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Och aye, Scotland!

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A busy Inverness Airport

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Stacked up waiting to depart to Leeds Bradford

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Nice photo scenery!

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Leeds Bradford

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And finally, touching down in London!

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Parked up, mission completed!

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Around the world in (under) 80 days woohoo.... what's next guys?

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Happy Christmas to all those taking part, hope to join you again one day for another adventure!

Cheers,

Nigel

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Indeed Mathijs, I'll be sure to raise a glass to you and my other fellow pilots! Thanks for instigating this one, as well as the previous trip, I really enjoyed the high tempo discipline:band_s:Keep us posted on the follow up.

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Nigel (sideout),

now that we demonstrated we also can do brisk tours around the globe, we can relax at our next tour and do it rather in 80 weeks than 80 days.:D

See you at the bar.:cheers_s:

Gernot

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