I was inspired by THIS POST and just not patient enough to wait for MSFS (or even V5)...

At that time I saw that post, I just staring to learn the PC12, and with RXP GTN, the gaugues mod by Bert and FDE by Bernt, It's very enjoyable ride to fit an unexplored niche (namely 200kts & FL200) for me.

Start with Pilatus' home base LSZC, it's more like a delivery flight (while going the farther way around) than world tour. starting with less than 400nm hop, then it gose up to more like 600~800nm 3hr flight as I gain more confidence with her.

Having cross both Atlantic and Pacific, I'm thinking it's about to end, But I still could continue on down to Oceania, west to Africa and fly back to Europe... but I have already skipped south America... so world tour is not much my intention here.... Maybe I just mark it delivered, and stating freely riding it around whenever I feel like to...

 

Another part of this fligh is: by going though the Pilatus' manual, I have made up my own SOP/Normal checklist, while based on Pilatus' one, heavily modified under the Boeing's concept....I feel it's almost like my standard way to learn a new aircraft (as I did for E190 and MD82 then...)

When I read the title I wondered if this was going to be the first report of a RTW trip on a J-3! Just kidding!!

Great choice of plane - fast, very good range and the ability to get into short airstrips if you want. Enjoy the other half of your journey.

Bill

The PC-12 is a very nice comfort plane to fly it has all the proper electronics between a piston and jet, it's a tad faster than a piston and you have the GTN but good grief it's probably the absolute worst sounding plane Carenado has ever made, if you get the TSS sound it's a very nice and easy plane to fly a RTW trip with.

14 hours ago, FPStewy said:

The PC-12 is a very nice comfort plane to fly it has all the proper electronics between a piston and jet, it's a tad faster than a piston and you have the GTN but good grief it's probably the absolute worst sounding plane Carenado has ever made, if you get the TSS sound it's a very nice and easy plane to fly a RTW trip with.

I don't have any compain to it's sound, but I'm kind dull to such kind of thing...maybe I'll give TSS a try then, thanks for advice.

Great job. The only problem is, you guys are making me want to do it again ☺️ .............

2 hours ago, W2DR said:

Great job. The only problem is, you guys are making me want to do it again ☺️ .............

Interesting, if I do it again I want to give it a challenge, if it's even possible, I'm thinking of VOR-VOR and VFR when possible and with towered airports only either with the PA-31 or PC-12 with TSS but with the GPS off, so purely VOR tracking only.

2 hours ago, FPStewy said:

Interesting, if I do it again I want to give it a challenge, if it's even possible, I'm thinking of VOR-VOR and VFR when possible and with towered airports only either with the PA-31 or PC-12 with TSS but with the GPS off, so purely VOR tracking only.

I frequently fly with the GPS off just for a bit of added interest and navigating using the VOR (or even NDB) provides a nice additional challenge and keeps you a little busier.

If you want even more of a challenge while flying VFR and you use live weather try navigating just by dead reckoning using your speed, heading, predicted wind and ground features (if over land). If you have an iPad, there is a nice app called Flight Computer Sim which basically replicates the hand held E6B slide rule used by pilots for dead reckoning.

Bill

Indeed Bill! 

Another option, if you happen to have photoscenery with decent mesh is just follow the landmarks, topography, railways, roads and rivers etc. If fuel & weather states are not an issue - you know you'll get to your destination in daylight (or even in nighttime VFR) whilst the weather reamins VFR - then no need to bother with dead reckoning either.

3 hours ago, HighBypass said:

Another option, if you happen to have photoscenery with decent mesh is just follow the landmarks, topography, railways, roads and rivers etc.

Yes absolutely Mark. I used photoscenery in my FS9 days and it was great for following ground features but in FSX I don’t use photoscenery (apart from the Hawaiian Islands for some reason!). However I have all the Orbx regional scenery areas for the British Isles and some of Europe plus TrueLandscape France for trips across the channel. Although, as you know, these are not photoscenery, the ground details are generally good enough to follow landmarks - the alternative form of IFR “I follow railways“.

Bill

 

It's hard to believe, but the first time I did an around-the-world trip was back in the FS95 days. No GPS, no photoscenery, no nothing. I used a Hammond World Atlas as my guide and just muddled along by ded reckoning. I got lost a lot but in the end everything worked out. Sometimes I miss those days..........Doug

East-to-West in the northern hemisphere, too.  Against the grain.

This must be the season for RTW trips.  We've had a couple of other posters doing that lately.  Including me.