Escape from Australia

**Ron Attwood** · November 7th, 2014, 12:16

First, I'd like to say that my hat's off to those brave souls who went from UK to Oz. Kudos to them all. And Nick...I am NOT bitten by the RTW bug. My hat is off to you guys too. My poor old body couldn't take the strain of not having a GPS!

Craig, I'm dismantling it, crating it up and shipping it to SoCal, where it belongs.

***srgalahad*** · November 7th, 2014, 13:29

To paraphrase...

"When the last 'plastic phantastic' is crated up and shipped out for recycling, the crew will be flown home in a DC-3"

Congrats on making it to England Ron. FYI, you CAN use a GPS in the RTWR, but the little sportplane won't cut it with the heavy iron crew. Besides, most of the legs are less than 2 hours so it's easy flying.

***Moses03*** · November 7th, 2014, 13:38

Originally Posted by Ron Attwood

I have to admit I wasn't my usual tidy self on this trip.

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LOL! Nice effort (not the mess).

**jt_dub** · November 7th, 2014, 13:49

336.9knt max speed!!!!!! Wow, you were really smoke'n on that run. WELL DONE!!!

**Ron Attwood** · November 7th, 2014, 14:06

Originally Posted by srgalahad

To paraphrase...

"When the last 'plastic phantastic' is crated up and shipped out for recycling, the crew will be flown home in a DC-3"

Funny you should say that. I've just now installed the C47 by Manfred Jahn. Managed to get it started (much to learn) then a warning horn came on for no reason that I can figure and it frightened me off! I'll go back and tame it.

Originally Posted by srgalahad

Congrats on making it to England Ron. FYI, you CAN use a GPS in the RTWR, but the little sportplane won't cut it with the heavy iron crew. Besides, most of the legs are less than 2 hours so it's easy flying.

Put like that, I'll reconsider.