Mick's ridin' the clutch again!

Nice one Mick:salute:. I watched your progress on the tracker. Looks like you might have had a missed approach or did you not spot the field until you were over it?
 
There's no navaids on the field so I set a waypoint on 2 VORs from which I hoped I could turn to track direct towards the field. But I was about 5 miles off and saw it to my right so I tried a base leg join but was too close/high/fast so I just did another circuit to get a controlled approach.

Then downstairs to watch Ice Pilots on TV and see how to fly the C46 properly!
 
So that's me done! brilliant event, great scenery and what better way to navigate than good old fashioned NDB/VOR.

Before I started this I had no idea what the Andes really looked like, high mountains, vast high level plains and some quite large towns up there. Thanks for introducing me to this.

So the trip totals - 316,000lbs of cargo carried - from strange smelling herbal things(!) to smaller heavier boxes (labelled Firearms Government Property) and some old paintings the loading of which were carefully supervised by some rather strange elderly gentlemen with German accents! Who cares, I carried them all.

Fuel used 20,494 lbs, 3,415US Gallons, 2846 Imperial Gallons, 12,922 litres, £25,000 at current British avgas prices

Airborne time 22 hrs 25 mins, 43 seconds

Maintenance points 4, took my attention away from flying and had a rather hard encounter with the scenery - my own stupid fault.

And my final thanks to Ice Pilots and Buffalo Airways for inspiring me to try the venerable old C-46 - what a fantastic machine! Seen here in the late winter afternoon at the final destination, Salta, Argentina.
 
Well done, Mick! :icon29:
The opportunity to explore faraway places is not the least of the points that makes these avents so attractive indeed.
 
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