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EHM-1749 Hector:
Hi Bruno,
it looks interesting and for sure I will go for it eventhough for this year I have a personal task.
As you may know this year is the 70th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's unfinished Around the World flight which ended tragically in July 3, 1937 trying to land in a tiny Pacific island called Howland.
She was flying a Lockheed Electra L10E, tail-wheel twin piston engine, specially designed to accomodate up to 1100 gls of fuel.
I already have the aircraft and the flight plans and plan to start in May for this 25,000 nm trip which is about 250 hours. At the moment I am learning to fly the plane and getting used to fuel usage, landing procedures, etc. It has no GPS, no VOR but only NDB. No FS Navigator is allowed so this will be an interesting flight.
So, the sooner the better for this Propilot event since I will be sort of busy from May to July.
Cheers,
Hector

EHM-1883 Matt:
Rico, are you sure about that? I did a 6000nm flight, and it only took 6 hours, and I went slower then the speed you've given, and can't remember my flight level

EHM-0695 Scott:
Matt,

Was that a Concorde? By my math 6,000 nm in 6 hrs is (Distance divided by time) a speed of 1,000 nm/hr (knots)! Or maybe there was time acceleration in there. Let's all remember the Boeing 747-400 typically cruises at (according to Boeing) Mach 0.845 @ 35,000 feet. This converts to ~ 489-495 knots true airspeed depending on conditions at altitude.

EHM-1651 Christian:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by EHM-0695 Scott
Matt,

Was that a Concorde? By my math 6,000 nm in 6 hrs is (Distance divided by time) a speed of 1,000 nm/hr (knots)! Or maybe there was time acceleration in there. Let's all remember the Boeing 747-400 typically cruises at (according to Boeing) Mach 0.845 @ 35,000 feet. This converts to ~ 489-495 knots true airspeed depending on conditions at altitude.
--- End quote ---


If that was a Concord it was with midair refueling aswell;D

EHM-0948 Bruno:
Hi Matt,

It's impossible mate ;D ... a 6000nm flight is a very long flight and will took you more than time :)

A 500nm flight takes 1:30h ... from that you can do your own maths ;)

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