Dan Ruggirello wrote:

I think someone posted earlier on this subject.  I went to an aviation trade show here in
Anchorage, Alaska yesterday and attended a talk the Alaska Airmens Association gave on their
paving the way for a VFR route to Russia.  Their goal is to pave it all the way to Japan, a
straight line between Seattle and Japan but for now the route is to one coastal city Providenya
Bay, in Russia .  Quite a number of GA planes went over this past year and last to prove it out.
Still a few things to work out, like gas availability.

The route only has about 29 miles of open ocean crossing.  I was thinking that it would be great
to eventually get a group of rotory powered planes to make the journey to Russia to bring the
viability of the rotary into the mainstream.  Experimentals are restricted going into Russia, but
are allowed on a case by case basis.

Dan

 
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