Anybody ever fly a 120 to France and back?

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Re: Anybody ever fly a 120 to France and back?

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5115 wrote: Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:20 pm
529 wrote: Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:10 pm If you pick up a copy of Dorchen Forman's book
THE CESSNA 120/140 STORY BOOK
Victor,
Do you know where we can get a copy of the book??
Regards!
I feel really bad............ :oops: :oops: We've tried to locate copies of the book and have come up empty. Still trying. I'm sorry I did not get back with you sooner. If needed, I would be happy to loan you my copy.
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Re: Anybody ever fly a 120 to France and back?

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No worries Victor!
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Re: Anybody ever fly a 120 to France and back?

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I've flown my '46 C-140 to France a lot 😊 but that was when it was still in Germany. 😎
Long ago I've fantasized about flying the opposite direction (Europe to the US) but after having ferried a couple of airplanes across the Atlantic in either direction and having seen how much icy water you have to cross I think one must be pretty insane to do it in reality. On one of these flights I've met a guy who had flown a C-172 all the way non stop from Canada to Scotland. You could pay me a lot of money - no way.
A friend has flown his C-170 from the US to Switzerland 🙄 but I wouldn't do it in anything with less than two engines.
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Re: Anybody ever fly a 120 to France and back?

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A friend flew his Helio Courrier from Montreal to Iceland going trough Groenland and recently flew his Pilatus Porter PC-6 from Europe back to Montreal.
But I agree that is a lot of water under our C140 limited 4hrs of autonomy.
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