yeah, maybe crazy...but in the scope of things, with the right gear, not really anymore than repeated trips into the wilderness in our birds, as far as risk goes anyway...! insure whatever u r flying well, pay your $, and take your chances. to me much better than some office somewhere hanging out till we die.....?!

I couldn't help but think that a little orange Spot Connect might really have helped locate a certain missing over the water trippleseven.

Rocket

Cirrus SR20
Headed "East" into tomorrow. I'm certain back and butt ache will prevent that from occurring until at least tomorrow, though.

Reminded me that my brother nearly didn't have a thirtieth birthday. He was ferrying an F/A-18 westbound and it only lasted a couple hours...

So the SPOT stopped 2" short of Hawaii Does that mean the SPOT juiced out or hopefully he didn't splash? What time did he land and where?

Glidergeek wrote:So the SPOT stopped 2" short of Hawaii Does that mean the SPOT juiced out or hopefully he didn't splash? What time did he land and where?

I was on the GA ramp today and did not see any Cirus. But, PHNL is a big place.

I would have headed to Kahalui. I like Maui.

I've gotten in trouble from the wife for not leaving the unit on when I land and having the trail of breadcrumbs end at the mountain several miles short of the destination. Have since learned to have that be the last thing I turn off before leaving the plane so it gets off the last message.
They landed after 15 hours and got a nice dousing by the rain in Hilo. Depart at midnight Hawaii time tonight for next leg.

Enroute to Tarawa. 2166 miles. Should be a little over 16 hours with this being the longest leg!

I think next leg goes to Guam and then? before Seoul South Korea

Matt 7GCBC wrote:Enroute to Tarawa. 2166 miles. Should be a little over 16 hours with this being the longest leg!

I think next leg goes to Guam and then? before Seoul South Korea

In that case:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N318KT

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N317KT

It looks like he forgot to turn SPOT back on until after the first nap on this leg too.

porterjet wrote:
It looks like he forgot to turn SPOT back on until after the first nap on this leg too.

Andy used to have spots for us to take on the flights, but got rid of them because the tracking feature was so unreliable. I have been getting good response with my personal one so encouraged him to take it along on this flight. There have been previous discussions on the reliability and I unfortunately have not been able to talk to him to ask if he has it on the dash or sitting on top of his emergency bag in the seat next to him? Consequently his mother was not too thrilled either, when the spot stopped sending a couple hours out of Hilo!

Good weather that would be nice for hanging out on the beach unfortunately is not conducive to having free time for doing so when you are on a long distance ferry flight. They made Tarawa yesterday and heading for Guam in a couple of hours.

Interesting how the coverage map gets spotty as you get west towards Hawaii

Guam to Seoul almost complete. Scott, the map seems to correlate well with the ability of the unit to send out a message every 10-20 minutes.