Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.


Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
hahahaha!!!!

On Mar 14, 7:52 pm, "NW_Pilot" >
wrote:
> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>
> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
> hahahaha!!!!

Good luck and happy flying! Take lots of pictures and post them for
us. I really enjoyed your last report. Hopefully you will not have
another fuel emergency over the Atlantic.

Regards,
Bud

NW_Pilot wrote:
> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>
>
> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
> hahahaha!!!!
>
>

Out of curiosity:

Which route are you going to fly?

--

Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

"Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
...
> NW_Pilot wrote:
>> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
>> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>>
>>
>> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>> hahahaha!!!!
>
> Out of curiosity:
>
> Which route are you going to fly?
>
> --
>
> Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
> tauno voipio (at) iki fi


All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try and
take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.

"Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
...
> NW_Pilot wrote:
>> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
>> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>>
>>
>> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>> hahahaha!!!!
>
> Out of curiosity:
>
> Which route are you going to fly?
>
> --
>
> Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
> tauno voipio (at) iki fi

All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try and
take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.

NW_Pilot wrote:
> "Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
> ...
>> NW_Pilot wrote:
>>> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
>>> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>>>
>>>
>>> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>>> hahahaha!!!!
>> Out of curiosity:
>>
>> Which route are you going to fly?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
>> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>
>
> All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
> Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
> waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try and
> take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.
>
>
Sounds like you're going to have a great trip. Just wanted ask a stupid
???, which airline(s) are you planning on your return trip?

Rick

"RL Anderson" > wrote in message
...
> NW_Pilot wrote:
>> "Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> NW_Pilot wrote:
>>>> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting
>>>> on insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the
>>>> 22nd.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>>>> hahahaha!!!!
>>> Out of curiosity:
>>>
>>> Which route are you going to fly?
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
>>> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>>
>>
>> All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
>> Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
>> waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try
>> and take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.
> Sounds like you're going to have a great trip. Just wanted ask a stupid
> ???, which airline(s) are you planning on your return trip?
>
> Rick
>

Looking like it will be British Airways to Frankfurt & Lufthansa Direct To
PDX

NW_Pilot wrote:
> "Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>NW_Pilot wrote:
>>
>>>Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
>>>insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>>>
>>>
>>>Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>>>hahahaha!!!!
>>
>>Out of curiosity:
>>
>>Which route are you going to fly?
>>
>>--
>>
>>Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
>>tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>
>
>
> All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
> Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
> waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try and
> take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.


Thank you!

Have a nice voyage!

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

NW_Pilot wrote:

[Snip]

> Looking like it will be British Airways to Frankfurt & Lufthansa Direct To
> PDX
>
>

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit the following:

1. Lufthansa is my absolute favorite European Airline.
2. Frankfurt (FRA/EDDF) is my absolute favorite airport, and I used to
fly through there somewhat regularly.
3. I spent 7 years in (then) West Germany while I was in the Air Force.

I hope you have no objection, I did download the current British Airways
(BA) and Lufthansa (LH) timetables. As best I can determine, BA does
not serve between South Africa and Germany. I would assume that you
would depart from Johannesburg (JNB). LH seems to be your best bet, for
as hassle free traveling as possible. I played around on the LH site
and found that there are two flights, LH 573 (JNB-FRA) and 468
(FRA-PDX). Looks like it might be a very long travel day for you
(approx 25 hours/25 minutes of transit time). However, the cost of the
ticket was a real Ouch!! You could buy a used car for the cost of that
ticket. Take a look at it for yourself.

Part of the reason I keep an eye on this is that I have some friends of
mine in Germany that I might go visit some day. So I check the routings
from SEA and PDX to FRA. I am a native of the Tacoma area (Puyallup,
specifically). I was very pleasantly surprised to find out (very
recently) that LH served from PDX to FRA. If I decide to go to Germany,
this will be the way that I will travel. The advertised flight time is
10 hours/10 minutes. Niicee! I would drive to PDX to catch that
flight, which is about a two-hour trip! Otherwise I would have to go to
Vancouver BC and catch LH from there. I would rather take a nonstop
flight to a destination, whenever possible.

A bit of history, If I may. When I was in the Air Force, I used to have
to go through some pretty stupid routings to travel from the west coast
to a "port" on the east coast (mainly McGuire Air Force Base, NJ) to
travel to Europe. In 1983, I had to travel back to the states, after
being in West Germany for over four years. When I had to travel back to
Germany, I caught the very first flight of the day to JFK from SEA, and
a nonstop flight at that. When I arrived at JFK, I had to check in at
the "MAC" desk there. Since I would not be able to meet a "show time"
at McGuire, I was put on the "PAN AM contract" and flew commercial from
JFK to FRA. Just my flight time alone was over 14 hours. I felt pretty
cranky when I got back. In 1989, I had to travel on official business
to Sacramento CA (McClellan Air Force Base). When my work was completed
there, I had to make arrangements to return to Germany. I managed to
get a ticket from SEA-LHR-FRA (I later found out that I broke a whole
lot of rules to get this ticket). Otherwise, I would have had to travel
from SEA-DFW-FRA (Note: DFW is the "port" where I reentered the US from
Germany so I would have had to travel to this "port" to return to
Germany). Again, that would have been about 14 hours of air time (not
including ground time). The reason that I really liked the SEA-LHR-FRA
routing is that I could travel from Puyallup to my apartment in a small
German village in (approx) 12 hours, total time (including ground time).

Apologize for the long post. I just wanted to pass on my two-bits to
make your return trip as easy as possible.

Enjoy your journey.

Rick

Photo of me at the destination in South Africa, Bad lighting on the photo
but She all deliverd!!!! And I am Back Home :-)

http://www.aircraftdelivery.net/ferryflights/N4180D.jpg



"NW_Pilot" > wrote in message
...
> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>
>
> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
> hahahaha!!!!
>