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NW_Pilot

March 15th 07, 02:52 AM

Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.

Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
hahahaha!!!!

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March 15th 07, 03:00 AM

On Mar 14, 7:52 pm, "NW_Pilot" >
wrote:
> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>
> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
> hahahaha!!!!

Good luck and happy flying! Take lots of pictures and post them for
us. I really enjoyed your last report. Hopefully you will not have
another fuel emergency over the Atlantic.

Regards,
Bud

Tauno Voipio

March 15th 07, 04:45 PM

NW_Pilot wrote:
> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>
>
> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
> hahahaha!!!!
>
>

Out of curiosity:

Which route are you going to fly?

--

Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

NW_Pilot

March 16th 07, 03:49 AM

"Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
...
> NW_Pilot wrote:
>> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
>> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>>
>>
>> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>> hahahaha!!!!
>
> Out of curiosity:
>
> Which route are you going to fly?
>
> --
>
> Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
> tauno voipio (at) iki fi

All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try and
take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.

NW_Pilot

March 16th 07, 09:59 PM

RL Anderson

March 17th 07, 12:08 AM

NW_Pilot wrote:
> "Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
> ...
>> NW_Pilot wrote:
>>> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
>>> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>>>
>>>
>>> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>>> hahahaha!!!!
>> Out of curiosity:
>>
>> Which route are you going to fly?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
>> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>
>
> All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
> Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
> waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try and
> take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.
>
>
Sounds like you're going to have a great trip. Just wanted ask a stupid
???, which airline(s) are you planning on your return trip?

Rick

NW_Pilot

March 17th 07, 06:20 AM

"RL Anderson" > wrote in message
...
> NW_Pilot wrote:
>> "Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> NW_Pilot wrote:
>>>> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting
>>>> on insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the
>>>> 22nd.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>>>> hahahaha!!!!
>>> Out of curiosity:
>>>
>>> Which route are you going to fly?
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
>>> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>>
>>
>> All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
>> Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
>> waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try
>> and take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.
> Sounds like you're going to have a great trip. Just wanted ask a stupid
> ???, which airline(s) are you planning on your return trip?
>
> Rick
>

Looking like it will be British Airways to Frankfurt & Lufthansa Direct To
PDX

Tauno Voipio

March 17th 07, 09:26 AM

NW_Pilot wrote:
> "Tauno Voipio" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>NW_Pilot wrote:
>>
>>>Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
>>>insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>>>
>>>
>>>Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
>>>hahahaha!!!!
>>
>>Out of curiosity:
>>
>>Which route are you going to fly?
>>
>>--
>>
>>Tauno Voipio (OH-PYM, PA28RT-201T)
>>tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>
>
>
> All depending on weather!!! Planning for a St Johns, Santa Maria, Dakar,
> Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Luanda (Angola), Upington (South Africa) Still
> waiting back on fuel availability confirmation in some places. Will try and
> take photos etc.... Going to be a fun flight.

Thank you!

Have a nice voyage!

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

RL Anderson

March 18th 07, 01:20 AM

NW_Pilot wrote:

[Snip]

> Looking like it will be British Airways to Frankfurt & Lufthansa Direct To
> PDX
>
>

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit the following:

1. Lufthansa is my absolute favorite European Airline.
2. Frankfurt (FRA/EDDF) is my absolute favorite airport, and I used to
fly through there somewhat regularly.
3. I spent 7 years in (then) West Germany while I was in the Air Force.

I hope you have no objection, I did download the current British Airways
(BA) and Lufthansa (LH) timetables. As best I can determine, BA does
not serve between South Africa and Germany. I would assume that you
would depart from Johannesburg (JNB). LH seems to be your best bet, for
as hassle free traveling as possible. I played around on the LH site
and found that there are two flights, LH 573 (JNB-FRA) and 468
(FRA-PDX). Looks like it might be a very long travel day for you
(approx 25 hours/25 minutes of transit time). However, the cost of the
ticket was a real Ouch!! You could buy a used car for the cost of that
ticket. Take a look at it for yourself.

Part of the reason I keep an eye on this is that I have some friends of
mine in Germany that I might go visit some day. So I check the routings
from SEA and PDX to FRA. I am a native of the Tacoma area (Puyallup,
specifically). I was very pleasantly surprised to find out (very
recently) that LH served from PDX to FRA. If I decide to go to Germany,
this will be the way that I will travel. The advertised flight time is
10 hours/10 minutes. Niicee! I would drive to PDX to catch that
flight, which is about a two-hour trip! Otherwise I would have to go to
Vancouver BC and catch LH from there. I would rather take a nonstop
flight to a destination, whenever possible.

A bit of history, If I may. When I was in the Air Force, I used to have
to go through some pretty stupid routings to travel from the west coast
to a "port" on the east coast (mainly McGuire Air Force Base, NJ) to
travel to Europe. In 1983, I had to travel back to the states, after
being in West Germany for over four years. When I had to travel back to
Germany, I caught the very first flight of the day to JFK from SEA, and
a nonstop flight at that. When I arrived at JFK, I had to check in at
the "MAC" desk there. Since I would not be able to meet a "show time"
at McGuire, I was put on the "PAN AM contract" and flew commercial from
JFK to FRA. Just my flight time alone was over 14 hours. I felt pretty
cranky when I got back. In 1989, I had to travel on official business
to Sacramento CA (McClellan Air Force Base). When my work was completed
there, I had to make arrangements to return to Germany. I managed to
get a ticket from SEA-LHR-FRA (I later found out that I broke a whole
lot of rules to get this ticket). Otherwise, I would have had to travel
from SEA-DFW-FRA (Note: DFW is the "port" where I reentered the US from
Germany so I would have had to travel to this "port" to return to
Germany). Again, that would have been about 14 hours of air time (not
including ground time). The reason that I really liked the SEA-LHR-FRA
routing is that I could travel from Puyallup to my apartment in a small
German village in (approx) 12 hours, total time (including ground time).

Apologize for the long post. I just wanted to pass on my two-bits to
make your return trip as easy as possible.

Enjoy your journey.

Rick

NW_Pilot

April 25th 07, 11:28 PM

Photo of me at the destination in South Africa, Bad lighting on the photo
but She all deliverd!!!! And I am Back Home :-)

http://www.aircraftdelivery.net/ferryflights/N4180D.jpg

"NW_Pilot" > wrote in message
...
> Archer is tanked and ready for the flight to south africa just waiting on
> insurance confirmation and will set a launch date to around the 22nd.
>
>
> Time to relax for a few days and wait for my overflight/landing permits
> hahahaha!!!!
>