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MooneyCFII
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Yeah, probably. My flight is over. Perhaps the operational questions would be good here or even in another thread. I know *I* learned a lot from the flight, starting with why I picked a 231. A 252 wou

gsxrpilot
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There will be pictures up soon. It was good to welcome Brian home today. Several of us in the Texas Wing formed up at San Marcos and flew with him the last leg to his home field at 1T7. It's certainly

MooneyCFII
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Well, perhaps it is time for me to chime in here. I didn't realize there was such a thread here or I would have gotten on here sooner. But I was doing something ... and it kept me pretty occupied ...

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Ned Gravel Grand Master

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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."

steingar Grand Master

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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.

 

Piloto Grand Master

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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.

peevee Grand Master

peevee

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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...

HRM Grand Master

HRM

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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 ;)

gsxrpilot Grand Master

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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.

yvesg Mentor

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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

Bob_Belville Grand Master

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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/

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gsxrpilot Grand Master

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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.

Bob_Belville Grand Master

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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.

carusoam Grand Master

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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-

LANCECASPER Grand Master

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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

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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

yvesg Mentor

yvesg

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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

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Bob_Belville Grand Master

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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) 

yvesg Mentor

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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

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LANCECASPER Grand Master

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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.

Bob_Belville Grand Master

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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".

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