matthew Law writes: > Just brings home how small the UK is compared to Canada and the USA. > From my home airfield, 800nm in almost any direction by my reckoning > would land you in another country.
That was 800nm round trip (i.e. 400nm out and 400nm back), but it is true that 800nm straight west from Ottawa probably wouldn't be enough to get me over the provincial border into Manitoba border. One of my nearer-term goals is to visit all three coasts. From Ottawa, it's 515nm east to Halifax on the Atlantic Ocean, 1917nm west to Vancouver on the Pacific Ocean, and 1682nm northwest to Cambridge Bay on the Arctic Ocean. > Although a C-152 would have ran out of fuel after 600nm probably. Probably considerably less. At 75% power, my Warrior could probably manage 600nm and still just barely have the required 30-minute fuel reserve, but I'm not tempted to try. > Did you see much variation in weather over the distance? Yes, even over 400nm, the changes were quite dramatic. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
