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RWS 57 – Three Journeys Round with Peter Wilson

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Peter Wilson is currently making and around the world flight and talks to us about some of the planning and lead up to the trip.

Peter and Mathew with the R66 they are flying around the world

More information and photos to follow shortly. Getting this out the door so you listen and follow Peter using his tracker. See links below.

 

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Somewhere over Saudi Arabia on the around the world trip

In this episode:
Getting into flying
Group trip to Moscow
Long range flights as charity fundraising
Planning for Africa trip – route, fuel, airspace
Flying over the Sahara
Different types of sand and massive sand dunes
Search and rescue considerations
Live tracker to website and data connection
Haze causing IMC
Changes in equipment and gear carried going into around the world trip
Route planning and timings
8 significant overwater legs
Antipodes

Links from this week’s episode:
Support the show on Patreon
Three Journeys Round Website
Three Journeys Facebook
Live Tracker – Follow Peter’s progress
World Helicopter Day

 

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RWS 18 – Around the world solo in 17 days with Simon Oliphant-Hope

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Simon Oliphant-Hope next to the MD500 that broke the around the world record in 2004.

A box full of maps, a sat phone, a support crew of 1 in a British hangar, full tanks and off you hop for an around the world record flight in an MD500 helicopter – that’s what Simon Oliphant-Hope did.

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00:45 Thanks for your feedback
01:30 Aaron and Lorena Knapp photo
02:00 Listener shoutout
02:50 Simon intro and Eastern Atlantic Helicopters
06:05 Moving from property to helicopters
07:10 Early helicopter work and starting a company
08:44 Getting a CFI rating
09:50 Idea to fly around the world
10:30 Planning the world record attempt
11:20 Rules for a world record
12:56 Average speed calculated first lift off / last touch down
14:00 Daily routine
16:10 Solo and support crew, getting through Russia
17:50 MD500 as the attempt aircraft
20:26 First attempt in 2001 and 9/11
23:33 Carrying maps and pre-attempt planning
26:00 Home base support crew and comms
27:11 Orthopaedic cushion from Ron Bower(previous record holder)
29:41 Going west bound challenges, Ross Perot Jnr, Dick Smith
31:30 Film flying and James Bond
32:30 Tips for young pilots
34:39 Route map
34:50 Marketing tip – trainmorepilots.com
36:00 Merry Christmas to you
36:30 World helicopter day

Links from this week’s episode:
Simon’s company Eastern Atlantic Helicopters

Flight path for 2004 around the world record flight.
Flight path for 2004 around the world record flight.

Around the world helicopter flight with Simon oliphant hope

In this video Simon also talks about his around the world flight (30sec advert at the beginning)
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In 2013 a russian team flew around the world in 44 days with 2 Robinson helicopters – this puts Simon’s achievement (solo and 17 days) into perspective:
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