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Archer III Is Ready for South Africa
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!!!! |
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Archer III Is Ready for South Africa
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 |
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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 |
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Archer III Is Ready for South Africa
"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. |
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Archer III Is Ready for South Africa
"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. |
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Archer III Is Ready for South Africa
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 |
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"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 |
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Archer III Is Ready for South Africa
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 |
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[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 |
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Archer III Is Ready for South Africa
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!!!! |
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