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As a newbie to FSing, I'm far from ready for this, but last night I was thinking about flying aground the world and was thinking that lacking something larger than a 1000nm range GA a/c it would not be possible due to political problems.  I notice on your website that the flight path goes over Pakistan, Afghanistan and the southerly former soviet 'stans.  This doesn't seem like it would be possible from a political stand point.  I thought about going Bombay-Muscat-Riyadh-Cairo, but I don't think it would be possible to overfly Saudi Arabia.

 

It seems as if the Muslim Middle East forms an impassible wall lacking the range to fly Bombay - Cairo via an all over ocean route.  Any comments would be much appreciated.

A young man from the U.S. recently did this "for real" in an A36 Bonanza (w/ ferry tanks).

 

http://www.limitless-horizons.org/itinerary/

Very interesting, he managed to fly across Saudi Arabia.  I guess I was wrong about the Saudi's not allowing flights across their territory.  That opens up possibilities.  Thx that is very helpful.