119 Flying a General Aviation Aircraft Around the World Twice – Interview Robert DeLaurentis
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🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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119 Flying a General Aviation Aircraft Around the World Twice – Interview Robert DeLaurentis
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119 Robert DeLaurentis, author of Zen Pilot, Flight of Passion and The Journey Within talks about his upcoming polar circumnavigation, and about his previous around the world trip. His new plane, Citizen of the World, is a highly modified 1983 Gulfstream Turbine Commander 900. Robert talks about the challenges of flying a 4200 nm round trip over Antarctica that will take 17 to 18 hours to complete.
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| 0:00.0 | and I had an oil leak, and the oil was spraying on the 1,500-degree exhaust, lost oil pressure, |
| 0:09.1 | and basically lost power. |
| 0:11.3 | The prop overspun, and I was 19.6 nautical miles from the nearest airport, and I needed to decide |
| 0:18.0 | whether I would ditch in the Strait of Malacca or take a chance and fly to Kuala Lumpur International, too. |
| 0:26.5 | And the problem with that was you had to fly over the dense jungle, which is the absolute worst-case scenario. |
| 0:32.3 | And then what are you going to deal with when you're flying into an international airport that's landing planes every few minutes. |
| 0:43.2 | That's Robert DeLorentis talking about one of the six close calls he had on his first trip |
| 0:47.6 | around the world in a single-engine aircraft. And in a moment, we'll be talking with him about |
| 0:52.0 | that trip as well as his upcoming polar |
| 0:54.4 | circumnavigation as well as his books. |
| 0:57.2 | Hello again and welcome to aviation news talk, a weekly show with relevant news and flying |
| 1:01.1 | tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm Max Ruscott. |
| 1:05.4 | By the way, if you have thought about maybe someday buying a serious SR 20, SR 20, SR22, |
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| 1:22.7 | episode 118, we answered listener questions about instrument flying in IFR. |
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