Thread: Azimut270 back from around the world flight and available for any questions

Hi Yannick
were you able to sleep at any time during the flights?

I followed your flight every day and had many questions all of which I hope to get answered in your book when it comes out. Please notify via this CTFlyer.com when the book is available. I fly a CTLS that now has 350 hours on it in a little over two years and need to stop, stretch my legs and visit the rest room (when my wife flys with me) about every 4 hours of flying. Can't imagine 18 hours!!!

You are true heros and I don't understand the limited press exposure your flight has gotten in both the public and aviation press in this country.

Dan

Dear Mike,

Ascension is not really on the route to Natal, it is a lot more to the south and still requires about 12 hours to join Brazil so it was not an option. On this crossing our concern was more with the weather than with the flight time as we still had a confortable fuel margin after 15.5 hours flight time. You are right for the maneuvering, we had to find our way around CB's by flying south as there was no way we could have flown straight.

Originally Posted by mkoerner

Congratulations on your flight and thank you for sharing information about on this forum.
Why not land at Ascension Island and cut the Atlantic crossing in half?
Also, your flight trace shows some significant maneuvering in the mid-Atlantic when one would expect you to be set on your course. It certainly seemed too late for second thoughts. Were you maneuvering around weather?
Mike Koerner

Hello Mac,

The problem with Iran was aircraft performance. Shiraz and Tabriz airports are at 4500 and 4900 feet elevation with a temperature of 30 degrees I let you calculate the density altitude ! there was no way we could have safely operated our overloaded aircraft from there that's why we had to change our plans. Jordan was actually ok and general aviation is well developped in this country, the problems was with the neighbour Israel and Syria which refused us the overfly.....

Originally Posted by ctcw

Yannick,
I'm curious to know why you abandoned your original intention of flying through Iran and over the north of the Middle East. As a result of your experience in getting out of Jordan would you recommend giving that part of the world a miss?
Mac

Hello 207WF

We tried several pitch setting and the one giving us 5300 RPM at full throttle gave us the best results in terms of miles per gallons and that was really what we needed for this mission.

Originally Posted by 207WF

WHY did you choose the coarse prop pitch setting in favor of the wide open throttle=5500 rpm that we see recommended in these pages? WF

Hello John,

There was a lot to do during those long flights and a lot of decision to take : navigation, fuel management, hourly communication report by sat com, altitude adjustement to get the best winds and in function of the reducing weight, weather avoidance and advance lookout, food, drink, pictures... The time went really fast, we didn't have the impression to fly 15 hours and more despite the lack of sleep, cumulative flight and very early starts. We only did microsleep of less than 3 minutes when possible and when really "dead" (with an alarm on the Dynon) for those reasons.

Originally Posted by hhobbit

Hi Yannick
were you able to sleep at any time during the flights?

Hello Dan,

Thanks ! It was a lot of work preparing this adventure and several thousands hours have been spent since November 2006, we have maybe underestimated the impact of such a flight and neglected a bit the management of our communication to the media...We'll do better next time Our web site recorded 75'000 visits in 3 month and over 700 guest book messages and that was a big success.

Originally Posted by danmayworm

I followed your flight every day and had many questions all of which I hope to get answered in your book when it comes out. Please notify via this CTFlyer.com when the book is available. I fly a CTLS that now has 350 hours on it in a little over two years and need to stop, stretch my legs and visit the rest room (when my wife flys with me) about every 4 hours of flying. Can't imagine 18 hours!!!

You are true heros and I don't understand the limited press exposure your flight has gotten in both the public and aviation press in this country.

Dan