The Inside Story

This is a picture taken today from the side facing seat across from the door of the passenger area. It was inside a hangar so it is a little dark. The very back area is too hard to see and has a potty behind the wood divider. So there are seats for 6 plus the pilots and the potty for the big trip- so we will have no crowding since there are only 5 of us total.

We removed a seat and put the white cooler you can see in the picture. No it is not for beer, it is for dry storage of our navigational charts as well as some spare things and more peanut butter crackers. I hope that the true color of the inside comes through on the blog, it is a very pale green leather and just beautiful.

Last Test Hop is Perfect

Short flight today to test some small maintenance items that had been worked on and we seem to have everything ready. The chewing gum, M&M's, Peanut Butter Crackers and Oreos are all loaded, so what else can we need! I think we're ready!

Original Email Notice of the Trip

If you are receiving this email, it is because you may share an interest in some of the people or some of the flying that is about to commence as we take a Citation CJ3 from Orlando Executive Airport to Orlando Executive Airport the long way around. First, I ask that you refrain from responding to this message right now, as we will be unable to handle a ton of incoming email with the final preparations underway. Think all of the good thoughts you’d like to please, but not emails… at least this week. We have created a blog that will enable you to follow our trip, which will begin May 2nd and end on June 25th. The good news for you is that if you don’t want to follow it, this will probably be the last email on the subject you will get . The blog’s address is: http://jpatw.blogspot.com Several of us will endeavor to add posts each day to the blog allowing those interested to get a feel for the journey. You can feel free to share this blog address with your personal friends that you feel would be interested in it. For those of you still interested, I’ll set the framework for the trip below: Mr. Jim Pugh owns a year old Citation CJ3, whose aircraft registration is N565JP. On aircraft transmissions, the initials JP are pronounced Juliet Papa. Thus the name of the blog “Juliet Papa around the world.” Jim has led an adventurous life, but felt that adding a trip around the world to his pilot’s logbook would be a wonderful thing, so he asked that the planning begin, which it did some 4 months ago. He was most interested in flying places he either hadn’t been to before or wanted to see again, so the following itinerary was created: N565JP Around the World Trip 2008 LEG ONE Friday May 2nd begins Orlando (GMT-4) All departures are scheduled for 10:00 A.M Local Time May 02 Orlando to Bangor (fuel) to St. John’s (5.5 total flying) 1 night GMT-2.5 May 03 St. John’s to Reykjavik (3.9 flight) 2 nights GMT+/-0 May 04 Iceland tour May 05 Reykjavik to Helsinki (3.7 flight)2 nights GMT+2 May 06 Helsinki tour May 07 Helsinki to Budapest (2.4 flight) 2 nights GMT+1 May 08 Budapest tour May 09 Budapest to Athens (1.8 flight) 2 nights GMT+2 May 10 Athens Tour May 11 Athens to Istanbul (1.0 flight) 2 nights GMT+2 May 12 Istanbul tour May 13 Istanbul to Cairo (1.7 flight) 2 nights GMT+2 May 14 Cairo tour May 15 Cairo to Dubai (2.9 hour) GMT+4 leaving for U.S. the same day 11:35 PM departure from Dubai to ATL (15.5 flight) to MCO on Delta May 16 Home at MCO From Dubai 10AM Eastern Friday GMT-4 LEG TWO Sunday June 8th June 08 6:00 pm departure MCO Delta to ATL to Dubai overnight (14.6 flight) June 09 Arrive Dubai 7 PM 3 nights GMT+4 June 10 Dubai jet lag recovery and tour June 11 Dubai tour continues June 12 Dubai to New Delhi (3.2 flight( 2 nights GMT+5:30 June 13 India Tour June 14 New Delhi to Calcutta (fuel only) to Hanoi (4.3 total flying) 3 nights?? GMT+7 June 15 Hanoi Tour June 16 Hanoi Tour continues or contingency catch up day June 17 Hanoi to Shanghai (2.9 flight) 2 nights GMT+8 June 18 Shanghai Tour June 19 Shanghai to Beijing (2.7 flight ) GMT+8 June 20 Beijing June 21 Beijing to Seoul (1.4 flight) 2 nights GMT+9 June 22 Seoul June 23 Seoul to Sapporo (2.1 flight) 1 night GMT+9 June 24/23* Sapporo to Petropavlovsk to Nome to Anchorage (6.5 total flying) GMT-9 June 24* Anchorage to Seattle GMT-7. 3.4 Flight (pick up a day crossing date line) June 25 Seattle to Little Rock (fuel) to Orlando (5.4 flying) HOME! 5:00 PM Arrival Party at Showalter-limo home for Chris Hall! GMT-4 Total Expected Flight Time 51.9 hours The trip looks like this on a Mercator projection of the Earth: (can't show a pdf on this blog.) A few words about the aircraft for those who don’t live in aviation. The Citation CJ3 is a ten passenger business jet. It has a range of 2150 statute miles and cruises at 480 miles per hour at altitudes up to 45,000 feet. It is equipped with the state of the art glass digital cockpit and flight management system, truly a wonderful machine that is one of the best selling turbine aircraft in the World today. Our itinerary has been designed around these capabilities, but has been kept conservative on purpose. As an example, our longest non-stop leg for the trip will be about 1550 statute miles, 600 fewer than the aircraft is capable of. That leaves good margins of safety in every respect for the trip. There will be five of us on the trip: Owner and Captain Jim Pugh, Captain Chris Hall, an experienced international pilot, Earl Downs, the retired partner of Jim and a former pilot himself; Mercer Dye, Jr., an aviation facilities designer, former FBO and current private pilot and helicopter owner and Bob Showalter, who will act as the Pilot in Command of record for the trip. Although I haven’t asked for the totals, my guess is that the total flight experience of the 5 of us exceeds 35,000 hours! Mercer has been designated as the chief scribe of the trip and both he and Bob have advanced digital cameras and promise to upload some photos of the adventure on to the blog. The blog displays the last entry first and the first entry last, so when you’ve been gone a few days you might want to scroll down and then read up to catch up with us if you are so inclined. You may post questions or comments on the blog and we will try to answer as many as we can. You can see we will seldom be still for long and the internet connection quality is yet to be known. We appreciate your interest and kind thoughts as we begin what should be the trip of a lifetime in Juliet Papa! Best Regards to each of you! Bob Showalter

Provisions have been loaded and flight planning is in earnest as we are starting to get a look at the predicted weather for the first days of our trip. Emails have been sent warning members not to be tricked by the warm days and breezes of Florida. Sweaters, jackets and rain gear may well be the best things to have as we remember why they call the area we will be traversing first the NORTH Atlantic! The aircraft is ready, maintenance having been done, new tires all around and a wax job for good measure will be done later this coming week. It's getting harder to get a good night's sleep as the excitement builds and the lists are checked and checked again! Stay Tuned. We leave one week from today! Bob S.

Time is ticking down for Jim's, Bob's, Chris', Earl's and Mercer's great adventure. On May 2, 2008 promptly at 10:00hrs we will lift off from SHOWALTER FLYING SERVICE at Orlando Executive Airport in route to Orlando Executive Airport. We will visit cities in 15 countries and stay several days in the ones we like. Through this Blog we will keep those of you and our bankers and spouses posted as to where in the World we are. More details to follow. Mercer

Juliet Papa Around the World

WELCOME TO THE AROUND THE WORLD BLOG FOR N565JP!

Beginning May 2nd, JP will begin a journey across the North Atlantic and eventually around the World. If you would like to follow our progress, save this URL and visit our site for updates on the trip.