Hi all,

We pretty much exhausted this thread some time back, but I interviewed
Dick Rutan for a magazine article and the question of logging his
around-the-world odessey came up. Remember the Voyager flight happened in
1989. Rutan said the flight was logged as "local" in his book. He did point
out that the rules now allow crosscountry time by noting the fartherest
waypoint and noting the flight as a round-robin.

> We pretty much exhausted this thread some time back, but I interviewed
> Dick Rutan for a magazine article and the question of logging his
> around-the-world odessey came up. Remember the Voyager flight happened in
> 1989. Rutan said the flight was logged as "local" in his book. He did
> point out that the rules now allow crosscountry time by noting the
> fartherest waypoint and noting the flight as a round-robin.

That's hilarious. I'm glad the FAA showed a rare smidgen of common sense by
changing this rule.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Casey:

That must have been fun, interviewing Dick Rutan. Where's the article - is
it available on the web? Any additional tidbits to share?

Michael

"Casey Wilson" <N2310D @ gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> We pretty much exhausted this thread some time back, but I interviewed
> Dick Rutan for a magazine article and the question of logging his
> around-the-world odessey came up. Remember the Voyager flight happened in
> 1989. Rutan said the flight was logged as "local" in his book. He did
> point out that the rules now allow crosscountry time by noting the
> fartherest waypoint and noting the flight as a round-robin.
>
>

"Michael 182" > wrote in message
...
> Casey:
>
> That must have been fun, interviewing Dick Rutan. Where's the article - is
> it available on the web? Any additional tidbits to share?
>
> Michael

Rutan was one of three aviators I interviewed for an article scheduled
to appear in the April issue of The Bakersfield Magazine in California. They
may or may not put it on their website www.bakersfieldmagazine.com.
Meanwhile, I can talk much about it.
Thanks for your interest.

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer and Photographer

Jay Honeck wrote:
> > We pretty much exhausted this thread some time back, but I
interviewed
> > Dick Rutan for a magazine article and the question of logging his
> > around-the-world odessey came up. Remember the Voyager flight
happened in
> > 1989. Rutan said the flight was logged as "local" in his book. He
did
> > point out that the rules now allow crosscountry time by noting the
> > fartherest waypoint and noting the flight as a round-robin.
>
> That's hilarious. I'm glad the FAA showed a rare smidgen of common
sense by
> changing this rule.

A more extreme example were the two guys that flew a 172 for nearly
65 days non-stop back in '59. Their flight distance was equivalent to
several round the world flights, yet had to be logged as local.

John Galban=====>N4BQ (PA28-180)