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On Mar 1, 4:42 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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On Mar 1, 3:13 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Not too many places left outside of radar coverage, these days.

Well, i didn't say it was lately, and radar coverage hasn't got
anything to do with it anyway...
Oh, and there are plenty of places with no radar!

Bertie

I'm on the east coast. My only SEL foray west was to PHX and back
in the A36. We had coverage the entire route, but stayed Victor
airways through the passes.

Yeah, I did a lot of what I was talking about on the east coast but a
long time ago. the 150 ferry was across the atlantic and th eneedle
ball and airspeed stuff was just transiting small areas of cloud. not
very bright, but when you're young...

Bertie

A 150 across the Atlantic?

Yeah, just once.

How many tons overgross were you with fuel??

Well, I think it carried about ten or eleven hours of fuel. Actually, it
was a 152, so say about 6 gph so I must have had about 35 or 40 gallons
extra inside ( it was split bewen two tanks, one in the baggage area and
one in the right weat, the right stick was removed) so about 65 gal, so
about 400 lb lf fuel in round numbers plus about 170 lbs of pilot
shouldn't have put me too far over. I've been well over ferrying,
though. Over 20% IIRC. ( and yes Larry, it was legal and I wouldn't have
cared if it wasn't)
Had to route Goose Narsarsuaq Rekjavik in that airplane, but I knew one
guy who did Gander-Shannon in a 150 which is over 18 hours of flying,
normally. but he relied on tailwinds and his loran to do it direct.

Bertie


Bertie