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If you read my posts, you'd know I've been a scientist, engineer, INVENTOR and product developer my whole life. Do you know what INVENTION is? It is fairly accurate to say invention is mental masturbation. After all, what you are considering DOES NOT EXIST... until you make it exist. Then it...

Just one question. Have you ever met ANYONE who could self-evaluate reasonably well? I mean someone who did something significant in life. Anyone? Or is this impossible for human beings? I have had my pilot certificate for decades. Back when I flew a lot, I mostly did bush flying to spots...

Like I said, someone already did this... plus a lot more... in the same airplane, a few years ago. What about him? Was he insane? Was he bipolar? Was he off his meds? As far as I know, he might have been insane, bipolar, and off his meds. But he already proved it can be done... in this...

Thanks for the attempt to make people think this is a fake thread. Is that also what you told the guy who flew this same airplane around the world twice? Once east-to-west and once west-to-east. And over the top of Mount Everest. I guess the books he published with photos taken from the...

Yes, I flew with a pipistrel virus owner for a three hour flight... plus a couple short flights. The seats were reasonably comfortable. The width was a bit tight, but adequate. I found that if we both gently leaned against our doors, we had enough room to be comfortable. But it is a small...

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Yes, I spent years considering and researching this plan... ever since the pipistrel virus sw with 912iS engine and 300 liter "extreme range tanks" was introduced a few years ago. However, I still must do several times as much research and experimentation...

##### continued from previous message ::: character limit exceeded ##### However, I'm starting to label my place markers with islands that have "tiny towns", "small towns", "large towns" or "small cities" on them, as well as mentioning those towns on which I can see cars in the google-earth...

Actually, I had not looked into that possibility. Good call. Perhaps from Midway to Wake and then onto the dozens and dozens of islands in the south pacific. Midway to Wake is about 1900km, or 1/2 the distance of the 3800km flight from California to Hawaii. Wake to Kwajalein is about 1200km...

Fortunately some people here tried to be helpful... and were helpful. At least I have that to be grateful for.

That's what the first 6 months of flying in my new airplane are supposed to be for. But don't worry, I won't learn anything, because it won't matter. I'm dead already. Note: I didn't post this message to get into these issues. I posted the message to figure out what category it needs to be...

Okay, let's be clear up front. You know it all, and I know nothing. What's more, even after I spend 6 months measuring the actual performance in the actual airplane, and accumulating performance statistics at lower speed (economy speed) and higher elevation (economy altitude), you will still...

I did well in IMC training during my private pilot training... probably because I trust instruments over my sensations more easily than most people. However, flying manually in IMC for several hours sounds like a fairly likely way to die, because it doesn't take too long to get an airplane into...

Well, one reason the owners get better fuel economy is because they are rarely loaded up to the maximum weight... while the pipistrel numbers assume maximum weight. I accept and appreciate the conservative nature of the people here. Believe me, when my life is on the line, I am conservative...

Well, the instrumentation I specified includes GPS, moving maps, synthetic vision (not that there are many mountains in the pacific ocean), and autopilot. So my answer to your bad case scenario is the following. If I don't have enough fuel to zigzag around clouds, and therefore need to enter...

Okay, a few comments. Santa Ana to Hilo is roughly 3990km. Monterey to Hilo is roughly 3735km. I'm not saying that is a huge difference, but that is a 255km == 155 mile difference, which is something. In terms of fuel, that is roughly 3 gallons. Again, not much in the greater scheme of...

Well, let's agree that "everything can go wrong" and sometimes does. But usually, not everything goes wrong simultaneously! For example, what's the chances I won't be able to find an altitude with less than 40 knot winds directly against me? True, 40 knot winds are not that uncommon, but how...

I will definitely need to check which categories limit international flying, because I don't want that limitation. I pretty much discounted "experimental exhibition" above, because obviously nobody will schedule an air-show on some small island in the middle of the pacific ocean. Not even...

#1: If you think I want to crash my airplane into the ocean, you are very wrong. I am not in the habit of ignoring information or believing fantasy. So, let me go through the numbers I have taken from the pipistrel specification PDF for this airplane. Please be careful. The nominal...

So if you have 3 friends helping you... the airplane doesn't qualify? Or it does qualify... because your friends are not "professional airplane mechanics/builders"? Would adding a lot of avionics throw you over the 51% limit (because they are pre-built parts)? If so, it seems you could...

Without a doubt, it does seem like building the airplane from their kit does solve a lot of other problems. But it creates a huge new problem, namely "building the airplane from a kit". The guy I mentioned in Alberta, Canada built his in 3 months of full time work. Other folks have taken 2...