Ham Radio Aviator On Round The World Flight

Another long day for Brian, now in N'Djamena

 

Dakar to N'Djamena, Chad is 2,174 miles in just under 15 hours - avg speed = 144 mph !!
He should sleep well tonight !!

Tomorrow N'Djamena to Khartoum, Sudan only 1,194 miles (piece of cake after today !!)

 

CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO CLIP: The RAIN Report Interviews Brian Lloyd about Ham Radio and his flight to retrace the route of Amelia Earhart

 

Must be an expensive trip. Anyone know what kind of MPG such a plane gets?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

 

Looks like he left N'Djamena for Khartoum somewhere around 11:20 UTC

 

No live radar tracking, just GPS: http://projectameliaearhart.org/tracker/map.php

 

Brian is now in Khartoum, Sudan

 

Next stop: Muscat, Oman : 13-Jun : 1 : OOMS

 

I was able to locate this info from Mooney:
The Mooney M20K, both the "231" and the later "252" model, are probably the most efficient production aircraft ever made. The Mooney is capable of over 20 miles-per-gallon (8.5 km/L or 11.75L per 100km).
Brian stated he was using about 7.7 gph

 

Tnx, some info from Google put it at about that number.

Not knowing what I am doing (normal) I come up with a trip gas cost of $6-10k.

 

Here's some interesting information that KQ6XA/Bonnie posted about the costs for the flight...

https://fundly.com/project-amelia-earhart

Steve / W5BIB

 

A commemorative map for the flight that can be downloaded full size:

 

I sure wish that he could have carried a 10m beacon !!

 

The highest freq in his ALE channel scan is 21432.5 kHz.
He has ALE, which provides something similar to that, transmitting an hourly station ID, on every channel he is using (when he manually enables it).
It is easy to copy him on ALE, and just about anyone that can copy his ALE signal can link (like selcall) with him on ALE for a voice QSO.

 

Brian departed Khartoum around 0800z today (06/13) en-route to Muscat, Oman.
Will soon be crossing the Red Sea.

GPS tracking :http://projectameliaearhart.org/tracker/map.php

Radar tracking: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n916bl#db746f4