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After spending most of my life Motor racing I thought that I would realise a long held ambition, to learn to fly. A contributing factor was that Qantas had developed a monopoly on the Port Macquarie route. So in 2003 I bought a Diamond Katana and soon had a private licence. After realising I would need more than two seats and an IFR aircraft I ordered a Cirrus SR20, which I picked up from the factory in January of 04. With an American pilot to keep an eye on me (Keith Amaro) I flew it to san Francisco from Duluth, and later organised Mike Cooke to ferry it out for me. I then got stuck into my instrument ratings and was flying IFR and lots of hours by late 2004. Then, on the basis of “Business is good, life is short” I came up with the idea of flying a plane out from Duluth over Greenland and Iceland etc. An adventure I wanted and an adventure it is. |