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Old 01-01-2015, 10:03 PM
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2009 Flew the RV-8 to Aruba for a wedding, 542 nm over the Bahamas to Provo but there are lots of landing spots on the way. From Provo to Aruba is 569 nm but really only the later half is over water so 330 nm over blue water with no landing sites anywhere. I carried a PLB, raft and wore a life jacket.

Write up is here:
http://rv-8.blogspot.com/2009/06/ill...f-utility.html

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Old 01-02-2015, 02:04 AM
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Open water, flown by Me & Tuppergal, Mike "Keys" Brewton and Andrew "Sharkbait" Brandt as a 3-ship:

Longest ever in the RV: Anguilla to Providenciales, ~563nm:



Actual Screen Shot from FlightAware:



Actual Screen Shot approaching Grand Turk (MBGT) into Providenciales (MBPV).
The outbound leg from Grand Turk to Puerto Plata (MDPP, Dominican Republic) weeks earlier is depicted in Grey off the left wing:



And nearest airports (well, sort of near...)



Second Longest overwater leg (3-ship): Bonaire (TNCB) to Grenada (TGPY), ~400nm with Me & Tuppergal, Mike "Keys" Brewton and Indira & Chris "Jailbird" Kleen:



Actual Screen Shot (east is up):



On the ramp in Grenada: The FedEx Pilot, Rampie, Indira, Jailbird and Keys



Honorable mention; A 3-ship from Santo Domingo to Curaçao (~370nm) with Me & Tuppergal, Mike "Keys" Brewton and Indira & Chris "Jailbird" Kleen:



The "Welcome Wagon" including the Director of Tourism for Curaçao (4th from the left):



With lots of Islands below us: Homestead (X51) to Providenciales (MBPV) at ~500nm...several times

We'll be back on "Island Time" come April 2015 ;-) Rosie & Tuppergal
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Old 01-02-2015, 02:51 AM
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Flying from the UK, you can't go very far in a straight line before the landscape is very flat and wet.

My personal longest overwater was the 520 nm from Egalsstadir in Iceland to Wick in Scotland with every conceivable survival aid except a spare engine. You do have the Faeroe Islands half way as an alternate if needed.

I've also flown the 600nm from Ketchican to Olympia WA, which is mostly over water, but it doesn't really count when you're always in gliding range of land.
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Old 01-02-2015, 05:45 AM
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Mainland to Nantucket - 20 n. miles.

Most of my acro is out over the ocean just offshore.
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Old 01-02-2015, 07:58 AM
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I sure enjoyed reading about your trip, thanks so much for sharing all that.

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2009 Flew the RV-8 to Aruba for a wedding, 542 nm over the Bahamas to Provo but there are lots of landing spots on the way. From Provo to Aruba is 569 nm but really only the later half is over water so 330 nm over blue water with no landing sites anywhere. I carried a PLB, raft and wore a life jacket.

Write up is here:
http://rv-8.blogspot.com/2009/06/ill...f-utility.html

Bill Judge
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Old 01-02-2015, 08:48 AM
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Bill Randolph, RV-8, Honolulu, Hawaii to Watsonville, California, May 26, 2005.

That leg was slightly longer than his run from Fortaleza, Brazil to Dakar, Senegal on March 16, 2005.

You can read about his trip around the world in 2005 here:

http://www.eaa119.org/node/24
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Old 01-02-2015, 10:50 AM
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Bill harrelson reached the South Pole but turned around and returned to Chile because of strong headwinds.
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Old 01-02-2015, 10:55 AM
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Manchester England to Barbados.

Mid point, around 1000nm from any rock sticking up out of the water.

Concentrates the mind.

Not an RV, an A330, but still makes you think
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Old 01-02-2015, 11:09 AM
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Ive crossed the Mississippi river...."TWICE" !
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Old 01-02-2015, 12:22 PM
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After reading the thread Ditching an RV... I am wondering what was your longest leg over the water? RV or others, single or multi. Were you experiencing engine "auto-rough"? What kind of gear/floating device did you have onboard? I crossed Gulf of Maine 100 nm, Lake Michigan 76 nm, a body of Atlantic Ocean enroute to Bahamas 90 nm and Yakutat Bay of 17 nm. Only crossing the latter I "heard" couple missing pulses from the engine.
Hi Mark Albery
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