Extended Range Cirrus? SR-20ER?

[CRJDispatchKid]

I happened to come across this during some flight following tonight.

How is this even possible? A SR-20 from KMRY-PHTO???

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N322AT/history/20101007/1930Z/KMRY/PHTO

 

[340drvr]

Ferry tanks. (No relation to fairy dust.)

 

[414Flyer]

I happened to come across this during some flight following tonight.

How is this even possible? A SR-20 from KMRY-PHTO???

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N322AT/history/20101007/1930Z/KMRY/PHTO

General aviation planes get ferried all over the world. They use ferry tanks, and get a permit for over gross weight takeoff. Depending on the route, they may need HF radio, and you definitely carry survival gear.

I took a new PA-28 to Denmark in 2005, and the longest part of that was St Johns NF to Iceland. All hand flying, and quite boring.

 

[Cat3C]

by the sound of some of the posts on here the only aircraft that can/should be oceanic is a Legacy or a Gulfstream

 

[414Flyer]

I would do it again, but not in a piston single. That time was enough. I have done a couple in Cheyennes though, one across the northern route in the winter, east to west, and then in the summer, west to east, going from St Johns to the Azores to Tenerife to Bamako, Mali. No extra tanks needed

 

[TMMT]

17 hours in an SR-20?

I'd be suicidal...

 

[414Flyer]

17 hours in an SR-20?

I'd be suicidal...

There is a "club" of those who have spent 24+ hours aloft on pacific ferry flights

 

[NW_Pilot]

Here is a SR20 I took to Malaysia photos of the tanks

http://www.internationalferryflights.com/tanking/100_2139.JPG


It is a long flight across the pacific but we manage.