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Touchdown! Greaser!
Okay.(edited to limit Bruce's quote to what was relevant for the below)
Well, Dr. Bruce, you know I respect your opinion, but we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
So Ted, what's the latitude of Belize? I don't think it's in the 35-40s, IIRC. I mean, I've been to South America in the Seneca, but that was not with family. It hardly counts.I'm at 2,000 hours pretty much on the dot, and about 1,500 of those are in naturally aspirated piston twins. For a while I was doing trips of the same duration as what the OP is discussing on a monthly basis. For that matter, over Christmas I flew to Belize and back in about a 40 hour period - came out to about 1700 nm each way. That was 19 hours of flying, 9 hours of sleep, and a few hours to cover being on the ground and eating dinner. I flew from LA to NYC in one day in the Aztec.
When you are ten years older and are hauling kids (and they'll get to the "carry the kitchen sink" age), we'll discuss it again, then. Take your numbers and quadruple them. This is from a guy who used to fly 24 hour patrols and log 9000 nm at a throw.
It is NOT the same as flying dogs.