What kind of GA pilot are you?

I started to plan a bit on the ferry flights stuff for the ga planes. So e.g. pffft (wait, that's PFPX) comes in handy and then I take literally everything I have to jump over the Atlantic. Includes trying to divert to the Faroe Islands (great freeware by the way) and, later, feeling like a master of bad weather landings. :lol:

 

I've read a bit on how many small ga planes actually circled the planet. Few. So maybe that's what I'm doing too, if time permits. I currently have a sweet spot for the single engine planes and Carenado usually delivers those every two weeks, lol. In between, there's the Q400, not really ga flying but still a nice prop. Did I mention that I really like props? :wub:

CoolP,

There are a couple of good books about your current 'sweet spot':

So You Want To Be A Ferry Pilot by Spike Nasmyth is a very good read; he takes a couple of single engine planes on long ferry flights over treacherous terrain and rough weather conditions...

Three Eight Charlie by Geraldine Mock is the story, in her own words, of her 1964 around the World flight in her 1953 Cessna 180, # N1538C:

She achieved what Amelia Earhart set out to do, and succeeded in many ways...

• First woman to fly solo around the world
• First woman to fly around the world in a single engine plane
• First woman to fly U.S. – Africa via North Atlantic
• First woman to fly the Pacific single-engine
• First woman to fly the Pacific West to East
• First woman to fly both the Atlantic and Pacific

Pretty good for a housewife and mother of three!

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/09/13/trailblazing-female-pilot-honored-in-bronze-in-newark.html