Can a Small Plane Fly to Madagascar in Under 4 Hours?
Descrição
World Tour, leg one: around the world in a single-engine plane. No airlines, no shortcuts.
Can a small plane fly to Madagascar in under four hours? Maputo to Toliara is about 630 nautical miles, almost all of it open sea, and Graham has bet the fuel bill on it.
Marike flies ZS-IMH, the ImmersaHub Cirrus SR22T. They start at dawn at Kruger Mpumalanga, hop over the Lebombo to Maputo for customs, fuel and a life raft, and then the clock starts: chocks to chocks, under four hours or over? A headwind, a climb looking for a better one, the equal-time point and the point of no return, a tempting little island called Europa, a boundary in the middle of the sea, and finally a coast on the horizon.
CHAPTERS
00:00 The bet
00:27 Kruger Mpumalanga at dawn
02:08 The Lebombo and the border
02:52 Maputo
04:20 Chocks away: the crossing begins
05:45 The Mozambique Channel: a headwind
06:56 Climbing for a tailwind
07:57 Europa and the boundary
09:05 Land ahead: Madagascar
10:15 Toliara: the clock
11:13 The fence
ON THE ROUTE
• Kruger Mpumalanga International (FAKN) at dawn, then east over the Lebombo into Mozambique
• Maputo and its bay: customs, fuel, life jackets and a life raft
• Inhaca island, then out over the Mozambique Channel
• The equal-time point (about 314 NM) and the point of no return (about 449 NM)
• Europa Island, about 109 NM north of our track
• The Beira to Antananarivo boundary at about 441 NM
• Landfall on Madagascar's south-west coast, the Tropic of Capricorn and Toliara (FMST)
Aircraft: Cirrus SR22T ZS-IMH · Route: Kruger Mpumalanga – Maputo – Toliara · World Tour, leg 1 · The crossing: about 630 NM, block time on the clock in the video
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#Madagascar #Mozambique #MozambiqueChannel #CirrusSR22T #WorldTour
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Can a small plane fly to Madagascar in under four hours? Maputo to Toliara is about 630 nautical miles, almost all of it open sea, and Graham has bet the fuel bill on it.
Marike flies ZS-IMH, the ImmersaHub Cirrus SR22T. They start at dawn at Kruger Mpumalanga, hop over the Lebombo to Maputo for customs, fuel and a life raft, and then the clock starts: chocks to chocks, under four hours or over? A headwind, a climb looking for a better one, the equal-time point and the point of no return, a tempting little island called Europa, a boundary in the middle of the sea, and finally a coast on the horizon.
CHAPTERS
00:00 The bet
00:27 Kruger Mpumalanga at dawn
02:08 The Lebombo and the border
02:52 Maputo
04:20 Chocks away: the crossing begins
05:45 The Mozambique Channel: a headwind
06:56 Climbing for a tailwind
07:57 Europa and the boundary
09:05 Land ahead: Madagascar
10:15 Toliara: the clock
11:13 The fence
ON THE ROUTE
• Kruger Mpumalanga International (FAKN) at dawn, then east over the Lebombo into Mozambique
• Maputo and its bay: customs, fuel, life jackets and a life raft
• Inhaca island, then out over the Mozambique Channel
• The equal-time point (about 314 NM) and the point of no return (about 449 NM)
• Europa Island, about 109 NM north of our track
• The Beira to Antananarivo boundary at about 441 NM
• Landfall on Madagascar's south-west coast, the Tropic of Capricorn and Toliara (FMST)
Aircraft: Cirrus SR22T ZS-IMH · Route: Kruger Mpumalanga – Maputo – Toliara · World Tour, leg 1 · The crossing: about 630 NM, block time on the clock in the video
Lemur, or branch? Tell us in the comments. Like and subscribe for the next leg: baobabs, canyons and a forest made of stone.
#Madagascar #Mozambique #MozambiqueChannel #CirrusSR22T #WorldTour
ImmersaHub · www.immersahub.co.za
#xplane12 #flightsim #motionsimulator
Palavra-chave: beira mozambique
