One more time, with feeling.

Finally, off to 'round the world again- this time in a Mooney Bravo. Just to make it more interesting. I haven't found out what kind of range I can coax out of the thing yet, so the pacific crossing could get hairy. The Atlantic crossing, tho, will go over the tiome tested northern route that was used for ferrying aircraft since the 30s & 40s. North to Canada (I'm going to go through Gander), then to Greenland, then Iceland, to Scotland.

Anyway, here's the Bravo:


The beginning and end point is, for no apparent reason, Chillicothe, Ohio. Mead had a plant there, but that had no effect on my decision.

Anyway, the Bravo is a pretty sweet ride (in FlightSimWorld, anyway). It's got enough horsepower to climb up at 1,000 feet per minute if you want to, and at FL190 can cruise with a 210kt groundspeed (winds permitting). I'm flying the glass cockpit version, which has a lot of advantages over the old style instrumentation- the only drawback I've hit so far is I haven't been able to figure out how to tune the NAV2 radio. There's got to be some switch or key somewhere that changes the tuner knob so it tunes NAV2, but I haven't been bothered to find it yet.

Anyway, it looks cool, too.