Final Day:
Chub Cay, Bahamas - Miami, USAThursday 22nd November 2007
Hard to leave the Bahamas with weather like this - only a short hop back to the US though - 1 hour 30 flying or so.
Crossing the US "ADIZ" - the military protection zone, you must call on VHF and identify what you're up to, and get assigned a transponder code for customs.
First sight of the USA again, approaching the southern shores of Miami.
Video: First contact with Miami Approach, FL105, 50 miles east
Miami
Final approach and landing of the journey, landing 09L at Tamiami Kendall Airport.
First stop cussies for a small mountain of paperwork, explanations, stamps, and form-filing.
After a short transfer to MIA international, nice to have someone else worry about the flying for a change.
Here's the route map.
4250nm, 42.4 hours of flying
- 7800 kilometres and 14 days.
Thanks all for following along with the trip.
Chub Cay, Bahamas - Miami, USAThursday 22nd November 2007
Hard to leave the Bahamas with weather like this - only a short hop back to the US though - 1 hour 30 flying or so.Crossing the US "ADIZ" - the military protection zone, you must call on VHF and identify what you're up to, and get assigned a transponder code for customs.
First sight of the USA again, approaching the southern shores of Miami.Video: First contact with Miami Approach, FL105, 50 miles east
Miami
Final approach and landing of the journey, landing 09L at Tamiami Kendall Airport.
First stop cussies for a small mountain of paperwork, explanations, stamps, and form-filing.
After a short transfer to MIA international, nice to have someone else worry about the flying for a change.
Here's the route map.4250nm, 42.4 hours of flying
- 7800 kilometres and 14 days.
Thanks all for following along with the trip.
7 comments:
Congrats on successfully completing your mission!
Any chance of a trip back to the private island one day?
The flying school will seem quite repetitive after the this trip, maybe a similar mission around the pacific once I can co-pilot.
Mark,
well done on that epic voyage.Nothing like a trip around the Islands.
Tom Gale BA 777
Well done you old bugger. make a pilot of you yet! :D
Look fwd to seeing you again soon Mark!
Mark -
It's Scott from dispatch school. Amazing blog, very admirable of you to take on such a "rough" journey.
Looks like you're doing well!
Mate, when I saw you in WLG I had no idea what you were upto !!
God thing you didn't tell me, I would have quit work there and then to do something like that.
Well done Mark. I enjoyed looking and read each day of your trip, Thanks for the link.
Have a happy Christmas and safe & wonderfull new year. Hope to hear from you soon again
REG (aka Mark VB ADL)
amazing trip, wish i had done it when i was in florida. well done
amazing trip. I hope to do something like this one day. How much did it cost you total out of pocket?
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