carusoam Posted June 13, 2017 Report Posted June 13, 2017 Khartoum, Sudan... The geography lesson continues... Best regards, -a- 1 Quote
Gone Posted June 13, 2017 Report Posted June 13, 2017 In a city where a hero of the most bloody civil war in history was taken down by the Mahdi and the end of an empire in Africa was signalled. "Some chicken - some neck." Quote
yvesg Posted June 13, 2017 Report Posted June 13, 2017 Speed check for Brian at 11:56:21 Z. 149.4 knots Yves Quote
steingar Posted June 13, 2017 Report Posted June 13, 2017 What an adventure! By the way, the first successful circumnavigation of the world by a member of the fairer sex was undertaken by Geraldine "Gerry" Mock, a housewife and mother of three from Columbus Ohio. Her Cessna 180, which she called Charlie still hangs in the Smithsonian at the Udvar-Hazy center. Quote
Piloto Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 5 hours ago, steingar said: What an adventure! By the way, the first successful circumnavigation of the world by a member of the fairer sex was undertaken by Geraldine "Gerry" Mock, a housewife and mother of three from Columbus Ohio. Her Cessna 180, which she called Charlie still hangs in the Smithsonian at the Udvar-Hazy center. Impressive lady. See her achievements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrie_Mock Maybe Brian's Mooney will be the first to hang at the Smithsonian. Quote
Piloto Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 Another impressive lady went around the world 48 times non-stop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova Quote
peevee Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 8 minutes ago, Piloto said: Maybe Brian's Mooney will be the first to hang at the Smithsonian. Why? It's a neat trip and something I wish I could do but is he first for anything? A local traffic girl took time off to fly around the world. In a pc12 probably donated, with handling by jeppesen, probably donated, and a second professional pilot... Quote
HRM Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 31 minutes ago, Piloto said: Maybe Brian's Mooney will be the first to hang at the Smithsonian. There's a mite there already, on the floor Quote
carusoam Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 (edited) I saw the Mite hanging from the ceiling not long ago... Not hanging in this photo though... https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/mooney-mite not sure Brian is going to want to donate his bird after the trip is done. Muscat, Oman... today http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N916BL Best regards, -a- Edited June 14, 2017 by carusoam Quote
yvesg Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 Speed check at 11:58 Z. 129 knots. He is only around 11000 feet... and looks like head winds. Yves Quote
gsxrpilot Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 It looks like Brian just landed in Karachi Pakistan which is roughly half way around the world. He departed from Texas which is in the GMT-5 timezone and landed in Karachi which is GMT+5, which makes it half way. Congrats on an epic flight. Quote
yvesg Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 2 hours ago, gsxrpilot said: It looks like Brian just landed in Karachi Pakistan which is roughly half way around the world. He departed from Texas which is in the GMT-5 timezone and landed in Karachi which is GMT+5, which makes it half way. Congrats on an epic flight. That makes it 10 hours difference Paul, not 12... Yves Quote
gsxrpilot Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 23 minutes ago, yvesg said: That makes it 10 hours difference Paul, not 12... Yves Damn math! Quote
Bob_Belville Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 9 minutes ago, gsxrpilot said: Damn math! Karachi is 67 E Longitude; San Antonio is 98 W Longitude so he's traveled through 165 deg of long or about 46% of the way by that measure. (Time zones are not very uniform, China has only one instead of the 4 or 5 it would have in a non-political world. http://www.worldtimezone.com/ 1 Quote
LANCECASPER Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 50 minutes ago, yvesg said: That makes it 10 hours difference Paul, not 12... Yves Wouldn't it be 11 time zones? +5 = 5 GMT= 1 -5 = 5 11 Quote
gsxrpilot Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 Just now, LANCECASPER said: Wouldn't it be 11 time zones? +5 = 5 GMT= 1 -5 = 5 11 My problem is that I travel too much to ever know what timezone I'm in. All I know is that I'm perpetually jet lagged. Sitting in the Nairobi airport waiting on a flight to Frankfurt > Chicago > Austin. Quote
Bob_Belville Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 2 hours ago, LANCECASPER said: Wouldn't it be 11 time zones? +5 = 5 GMT= 1 -5 = 5 11 Yeah, the 11 is correct, the difference is the American DST. Quote
carusoam Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 Positive thinking is pretty powerful... Only off by an hour. How far away is Karachi to Nairobi? Meeting a Mooney pilot half way around the world would make an awesome lunch/ fly-in.. Best regards, -a- Quote
LANCECASPER Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 2 hours ago, carusoam said: Meeting a Mooney pilot half way around the world would make an awesome lunch/ fly-in.. Hopefully he'll meet up with some Mooney Pilots in Australia 1 Quote
yvesg Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 45 minutes ago, LANCECASPER said: Hopefully he'll meet up with some Mooney Pilots in Australia He might be meeting one in Bangkok, Ned is going to be there around these dates. Not sure if his work schedule will allow this but the potential is there. Yves Quote
yvesg Posted June 14, 2017 Report Posted June 14, 2017 3 hours ago, Bob_Belville said: Yeah, the 11 is correct, the difference is the American DST. I disagree. GMT is 0 not one. If you are at GMT -5 and you compare with GMT + 5, that is 10 hours difference. GMT does not care about daylight saving time. It is a reference. Yves 1 Quote
Bob_Belville Posted June 15, 2017 Report Posted June 15, 2017 1 hour ago, yvesg said: I disagree. GMT is 0 not one. If you are at GMT -5 and you compare with GMT + 5, that is 10 hours difference. GMT does not care about daylight saving time. It is a reference. Yves Texas is Central Time, GMT -6. (minus 5 during DST) Quote
yvesg Posted June 15, 2017 Report Posted June 15, 2017 59 minutes ago, Bob_Belville said: Texas is Central Time, GMT -6. (minus 5 during DST) Paul said GMT - 5, I went from there. Looking at the map you sent, I still see 10 time zone difference, not 11. Sorry for the proscratination... this is what I do for work, raise bugs when something is wrong. Take care Bob. Yves 1 Quote
LANCECASPER Posted June 15, 2017 Report Posted June 15, 2017 2 hours ago, yvesg said: I disagree. GMT is 0 not one. If you are at GMT -5 and you compare with GMT + 5, that is 10 hours difference. GMT does not care about daylight saving time. It is a reference. Yves Not that it really matters, but Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) is its own time zone. 5 time zones before Greenwich Mean Time, plus Greenwich Mean Time Zone plus 5 time zones after Greenwich Mean Time = 11 time zones. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/ But really Paul was correct to begin with because Texas is minus 6, so that means 12 total time zones so far, and that's half way around the world. Quote
Bob_Belville Posted June 15, 2017 Report Posted June 15, 2017 4 minutes ago, LANCECASPER said: Not that it really matters, but Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) is its own time zone. 5 time zones before Greenwich Mean Time, plus Greenwich Mean Time Zone plus 5 time zones after Greenwich Mean Time = 11 time zones. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/ But really Paul was correct to begin with because Texas is minus 6, so that means 12 total time zones so far, and that's half way around the world. Naw. You count the first or the last but not both. Except Hebrew time where Friday Night to Sunday Morning (< 48 hours) is "3 days". Quote
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