Round the world flight (southern route) in the P Baron
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Finished a round the world flight in the P Baron - took the southern route east to west. It's a LOOOOONG way across the southern pacific!!! Perfect plane for that trip - it can go up high and sip fuel for the long overwater flights and can fly low with reasonable fuel burn for the low VFR legs.
Warning - some of the long overwater legs required careful planning with winds aloft. I landed with 7 gallons left in the tanks once :O. Western South America is a great region to fly the P Baron - lots of high altitude airports. I'll be dreaming of flying into south pacific islands for a long time!!
Here's my full route if anyone would like to try out parts of it. The legs that you see just direct from source to destination were legs that I chose to fly VFR (when there was favorable weather and what there was to see):
WIEE/33 DCT MKB DCT ODIRU N628 DABAP DCT VRMG/R28
VRMG/28 DCT BUSUX DCT GITOP DCT DULMA DCT MALON DCT DULMA DULM1D FSIA/MALON.R13
FSIA/13 IMPO1B IMPOX DCT OKLIM DCT 06S052E DCT 06S049E DCT SOKAR DCT 06S042E DCT 06S041E DCT 06S040E DCT HTZA/R18
HTZA/36 DCT ITGOP UW305 MV UB531 KNM UL442 KAROS KARO1L FZNA/35
FZNA/17 GIGA2B GIGAG V3 KIN ATS11 INADO INAD1B FZWA/34
FZWA/34 DCT 085922S0215956E DCT FNUB/R28
FNUB/10 DCT VMO DCT SH DCT FHSH/R01
FHSH/01 DCT 13S009W DCT 11S012W DCT FHAW/R13
FHAW/13 HUPNO1 HUPNO DCT DAGAM DCT ETIMO UL375 UDIGA DCT BUGAT DCT SBFN/R12-Z
SBFN DCT SGA DCT SBSL
SBSL/06 DCT SNSM DCT SBMQ DCT SNMA/10
SNMA DCT SBEG
SBEG/11 VUNG1A VUNEP DCT SWKO DCT SBTF/R33-Y
SBTF/15 DCT SWOB DCT SDCG DCT SBTT/12
SBTT/12 DCT SPJL /12
SPJL/12 ISAV2F TONOS DCT PUGOT UV204 REBOL REBOL5 SCFA/IRIKI.R19-Y
SCFA/19 DCT 26S073W DCT 30S075W DCT SCIR/14
SCIR/14 DCT XONAT L348 ASALA ASAL2A SCIP/PUBGO.I10-X
SCIP/10 HANP1B HANPI L348 SAURI DCT 23S123W DCT 21S126W DCT PATUI DCT PATUI G223 PATIA DCT NTGE/29
NTGE/29 DCT PEBRO DCT PEBRO DCT NTGA
NTGA/32 DCT VETEA DCT 19S151W DCT KRILL DCT KRILL DCT NCMK/R10
NCMK/10 DCT DOTIK DCT INVAS DCT INVAS B454 GUMRA DCT NSTU/I05
NSTU/08 DCT BIGEK G224 NN DCT NFFN/R20
NFFN/09 DCT BUTVI B598 BIROP DCT NVVV/R11
NVVV/29 SON R599 LEGOT DCT AGGL/R05
AGGL/05 DCT SCRUZ R599 GIZO DCT AGGE/GPSC
AGGE/05 DCT LUNTO H663 AVLIX H796 LARID DCT AYNZ/OPIGO.R09
AYNZ/27 DCT NZ H409 OKT DCT ZX DCT WAVV/15
WAVV/33 DCT LINLU W62 BIK BIK1B WAUU/EXUNI.R35
WAUU/35 DCT MIL W67 FIMBA DCT WAEG/22
WAEG/04 DCT HALMO W61 MWB A211 ARIRU ARIR1B WAQQ/24
WAQQ/24 MAMO1D MAMOK DCT D064H W448 VBU G460 VKG G580 MOXUN DCT PNK PNK1B WIOD/IKOKI.R34
WIOD/16 PNK1A PNK W23 PLB W25 PASOL PASO1H WIEE/R15
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For the real long ones climbing all the way up to 24/25k feet and running at 24 in/2200 rpm LOP per the real POH. I posted a simbrief profile on the forum here that I use for planning - https://community.justflight.com/topic/9333/simbrief-profile-for-the-58p .
Don't forget to plan for the 1/2 gallon per hour that the heater will use - and cross feed the left engine for a bit so you don't run out of fuel on that side. I'd go halfway through the flight and then figure out how much it'll burn for the 2nd half and run the left engine on cross feed until I have that much extra on the left - that way when I have minimum fuel it's equal.
