Around the World in 111 Flights - 23,783 Miles in the TBM 930

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Recently finished my tour around the world in my favorite aircraft, the TBM 930. 111 flights total starting and ending in KCHO - Charlottesville, VA. Ended up taking about 94 hours in the sim seat. So many great flights (I’ll put asterisks by some of the more scenic and fun below), but by the far the most intense was SBFN to GOOY. At the end of the 5 hour flight, the engines shut off with 5 gallons of fuel left (maybe bugged). I thought I calculated it to the limit, but right as I was on final I had to glide the plane in from about 3K ft. Made it safe and sound and managed to get off the runway. One of the most fun moments I’ve had in gaming. Also, plenty of dark landings into unlighted runways and fields that often required instruments and just a best guess :smiley:

Of course the only crash I had was into VNLK with a 60ish kt tailwind. But, I like to think it damaged the plane, I walked away, stayed out there for a while and insurance got me back into another TBM so I could continue :slight_smile:

Here’s the plan:

  1. KCHO —>
  2. KFFA
  3. KNCA
  4. KNBC
  5. KSSI
  6. KMCO
  7. MYNN
  8. MYEF
  9. MKJP
  10. MDPC
  11. TFFJ
  12. TFFR
  13. SVMG
  14. SVPR
  15. SVPP
  16. SMZO (pretty interesting strip in the middle of a city)
  17. SBMQ
  18. SBBE
  19. SBSL
  20. SBFZ
  21. SBFN
  22. GOOY
  23. GOSS
  24. GQNJ
  25. GQPZ
  26. DAOF
  27. GMAD
  28. GMMX (really cool flight)
  29. GMFF
  30. GMTT
  31. LXGB
  32. LEMG
  33. LEBA
  34. LEMD
  35. LEPP
  36. LFBD
  37. LFRS
  38. LFOD (kicks off one of the most scenic routes of the trip all the way until LBSF)
  39. LFLP
  40. LFGJ
  41. LSZH
  42. LOWI
  43. LOWZ
  44. LOWG
  45. LDZD
  46. LYTV (awesome landing)
  47. LBSF
  48. LBPD
  49. LTBA
  50. LTAH
  51. LTDA
  52. ORAA
  53. OR1B (brief jaunt to Qa’im to see defunct base - can still land at old flight line visible on terrain)
  54. OISS (scenic flights into Iran)
  55. OIZH
  56. OPQT
  57. OPLA (some of the best flights and scenery through VEGT)
  58. VISM
  59. VARD
  60. VNST
  61. VNLK
  62. VQPR
  63. VEGT
  64. ZPPP
  65. VVNB
  66. ZJHK
  67. VHHH
  68. ZSAM
  69. RCSS
  70. RORS
  71. ROKR
  72. RJX8
  73. RJFC
  74. RJFU
  75. RJOM
  76. RJOO
  77. RJTT
  78. RJST
  79. RJCC
  80. RJCM
  81. UHSI
  82. USEK
  83. UHQO
  84. UHPP
  85. PAAT
  86. PADK
  87. PAAK
  88. PAUA
  89. PADU
  90. PAKF
  91. PASD
  92. PAPH
  93. KEB
  94. PACV
  95. PAYA
  96. PAJN
  97. CZST (cool takeoff and flyout)
  98. CYXT
  99. CYVR
  100. KBFI
  101. S68 (really cool landing spot in a valley on the river with a cool, well rendered dam nearby)
  102. C53 (Lower Loon Creek - really tough landing with the TBM)
  103. KCOD
  104. KBYG
  105. KHSR
  106. Y03
  107. KDSM
  108. IL45
  109. KIND
  110. KPKB
  111. —> KCHO

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Many more screens to follow once I go through them all!

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Congrats! :partying_face: I finished my round the world with the TBM last year. I flown to much more Airports and ha a lot of additional Miles. Almost 100.000 nm, because I did a lot of sidekicks. It’s pretty funny with the TBM and I learned „flying“ and flight planing during that trip.

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I have an around the world flight planned in the TBM, but haven’t started that yet. [I’m currently circumnavigating Australia and Oceania. Once that is done, I’ll circumnavigate the globe.].

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Whaou…
I’ve just terminated 15 steps deliveries flights a new built TBM930 from LFBT (Tarbes Daher manufactory) to Papeete French Polynesia proceeding east way, because by the west way that’s is not possible due to distance between airports overflying Pacific Ocean
TBM930 is THE plane to do that
Flights in real time and live weather of course :grin:

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I am on an similar TBM trip, starting in San Francisco, surrounding both the americas, move over to africa (very close to your route with 23knots headwind causing some fuel calculations to reach the african coadr :wink:) my circumnavigation going north, followed the whole river nile, the rift lakes, south africa and there are now about 2000 miles missed to complete africa. Then madagascar, australia, oceania, asia, europe, the poles………

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Have good flights :smiley:

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