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Around the world in 80 days in a fighter


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When I heard about this challenge I wanted to participate (altough maybe not possible to combain with school, but I'll see how far I will come).

I will fly the trip in a single seat fighter starting with the Eurofighter Typhoon and I may switch to the Dassault Mirage 2000.

The route will be as follows:

EGLC-EBBL

EBBL-LSMM

LSMM-LIRS

LIRS-LTAN

LTAN-HEPS

HEPS-OEJN

OEJN-OMDB

OMDB-OPKC

OPKC-VABB

VABB-VECC

VECC-VYST

VYST-VTBU

VTBU-VVDN

VVDN-VHSK

VHSK-RCTP

RCTP-RJFY

RJFY-RJTT

RJTT-RJCN

RJCN-PAED

PAED-CYQQ

CYQQ-KSKA

KSKA-KSFO

KSFO-KLSV

KLSV-KIAB

KIAB-KBLV

KBLV-KFFO

KFFO-KJFK

KJFK-CYQX

CYQX-BIKF

BIKF-EGLC

 

The range of the eurofighter might be not enough for some of the legs, but I have a solution for that...

 

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repositioned from EGXC (RAF Coningsby) to EGLC (London city) in preperation for the first leg of the tour.

 

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Take off from EGXC.

 

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slowing down on runway 09.

 

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secured on the ground at London

 

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My ''office'' for this trip.

 

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22 hours ago, Bragametro said:

Woo. That’s cool.
You could try to do that in 80 hours instead..

Haha, that's a nice idea. I'll see how long i'm flying in total.

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Leg 1 EGLC (London City, UK) to EBBL (Kleine Brogel AB< Belgium)

Leg length: 221NM

Total flight length: 221NM

Length still to fly: 19.994NM

Time flown: 23 min

 

the route for this leg is as shown:

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Ready for take off from EGLC

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Lighting the fires

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Unrestricted climb

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Cruising over England

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Reaching the channel

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cruising over the channel at MACH 0.98

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On final runway 23R

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and touchdown

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shutting down for today.

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next leg will be EBBL (KLeine Brogel AB, Belgium)-LSMM (MEiringen AB, Suisse).

 

 

 

 

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It's time to fly the second leg after a two day break. This leg will take me from EBBL (Kleine Broge AB, Belgium) to LSMM (Meiringen AB, Switserland)

Length leg: 295NM

Total length flown: 516NM

Length still to go: 19.649NM

Time flown: 0:57:00

 

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The route for this leg.

 

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Climbing just after take off

 

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Nice view during cruise

 

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Starting the descend

 

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On final

 

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Time to get dinner.

 

Next leg will be LSMM (Meiringen AB, Switserlan) to LIRS (Grosseto AB, Italy)

 

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After a night sleep in Switserland it's time to go again. This time to Konya, Turkey with a stop in Italy.

The first leg today will go to Grosseto, Italy.

Leg length: 279NM

Total length flown: 795NM

Total length still to go: 19.370NM

Leg time: 0:30:00

Time flown: 1:27:00

 

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The route for this leg.

 

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Fully ready for departure.

 

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Climbing!

 

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But first a bit of low flying over a lake!

 

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Flying over the alps.

 

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Descending.

 

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Let's get some lunch.

 

Next leg will be from LIRN (Grosseto AB, Italy) to LTAN (Konya, Turkey)

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After lunch it's time to go again. The final leg for today will take me to Konya in Turkey.

Leg length: 1084NM

Total length flown: 1879NM

Total length still to go: 18.286NM

Leg time: 1:07:00

Time flown: 2:34:00

 

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The route

 

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Ready to go!

 

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Airborne!

 

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The fuel is getting a bit low, but I'm still miles away from Konya. So what now?

 

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There is the solution to the low fuel problem!

 

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Refueling in progres.

 

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Thank you for the fuel!

 

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Nice light above Turkey

 

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Turning final.

 

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And secured on the ground. Done for the day. Tommorow I'll go to HEPS (Port Said, Egypt)

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Nice refulling. Is that tacpack? I use mostly a freeware, can refulling from every plane, exept if i use iris vulcan, she get an air2air refulling system.

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On 7-10-2017 at 8:00 PM, PeSt said:

Nice refulling. Is that tacpack? I use mostly a freeware, can refulling from every plane, exept if i use iris vulcan, she get an air2air refulling system.

I'm ussing tacpack and I believe the french KC135 is a model of the Metal2Mesh Mirage 2000C, but i'm not sure.

 

21 hours ago, kalizzi said:

impressive stuff! good luck!

Thank you!

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The last leg of the first part of the tour will go to Port Said in Egypt.

Leg length: 497NM

Total length flown: 2,376NM

Total length still to go: 17,789NM

Leg time: 0:22:00

Time flown: 2:56:00

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The route

 

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taxiing to the runway

 

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Rolling

 

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Cruising over Turkey

 

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Let's get some speed on, since I'm now feet wet (Mach 1.90)

 

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On the ground in Port Said. Next leg will go to OEJN.

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

After a couple of days in Port Said it's time to go!

This time to Jeddah

Leg length: 697NM

Total length flown: 3,055NM

Total length still to go: 17,092NM

Leg time: 0:42:00

Time flown: 3:38:00

 

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The route

 

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ready for departure

 

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Turning just after take off

 

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In the cruise

 

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Descending

 

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On final

 

The next leg will go to Dubai.

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Leg 7 (OEJN-OMDB)

 

Leg length: 1021NM

Total length flown: 4,076NM

Total length still to go: 16,071NM

Leg time: 1:31:00

Time flown: 5:09:00

 

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The route

 

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Ready to fit the fuel tanks

 

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Tunring

 

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Climbing

 

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Over the dessert

 

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Descending with Dubai insight

 

Next leg will go to Karachi

 

 

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I wasn't able to upload the last two legs of this part of the world tour. That's why I'm uploading them now, I hope this isn't a problem.

 

This leg will go to Karachi:

Leg length: 680NM

Total length flown: 4,756NM

Total length still to go: 15,391NM

Leg time: 0:46:00

Time flown: 5:55:00

 

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the route

 

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All cheks done, ready to go!

 

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On the runway

 

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Leaving Dubai

 

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It's nice to be able to fly fast, but itr burns a lot of fuel very quickly...

 

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So getting some fuel again

 

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Thank you for the fuel!

 

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Back on the ground at Karachi

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The second leg for today will got to Bombay

Leg length: 546NM

Total length flown: 5,302NM

Total length still to go: 14,845NM

Leg time: 0:48:00

Time flown: 6:43:00

 

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the route

 

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Ready for taxi

 

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Cruising

 

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Back on the ground at Bombay

 

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Todays leg wll go to Calcutta

Leg length: 934NM

Total length flown: 6,236NM

Total length still to go: 19,911NM

Leg time: 1:12:00

Time flown: 7:55:00

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The route

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Ready to start the taxi

 

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Climbing

 

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In the cruise

 

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And on the ground

 

 

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

A bit late on the diary update for the legs of part 4 of the world tour...

 

Leg 11: to Meiktila

Leg length: 511NM

Total length flown: 6,747NM

Total length still to go: 19,400NM

Leg time: 0:45:00

Time flown: 8:40:00

 

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The route

 

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Ready for departure

 

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On the runway

 

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mid-flight

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Leg 12 to Ban Chang

Leg length: 632NM

Total length flown: 7,379NM

Total length still to go: 18,768NM

Leg time: 0:46:00

Time flown: 9:26:00

 

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the route

 

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Ready for take off

 

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Climbing

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Leg 13 to Da Nang

Leg length: 549NM

Total length flown: 7,928NM

Total length still to go: 18,219NM

Leg time: 0:46:00

Time flown: 10:12:00

 

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The route

 

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Not really nice weather

 

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Nice looking clouds

 

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On the ground again

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Leg 14 to Hong Kong

Leg length: 508NM

Total length flown: 8,436NM

Total length still to go: 17,711NM

Leg time: 0:46:00

Time flown: 10:58:00

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the route

 

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staying low!

 

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Descending

 

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Made it to Hong Kong

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