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Around the World Time Building Program Russell Aviation World Multi Time Building Program is a once in a life time adventure. Owner Mickey Russell has long known what most pilots find out the hard way: traditional flight training and time building is slow, frustrating, unnecessarily redundant and boring. The best way to learn is to focus on the process of learning, away from the distractions of day-to-day life. Military, airline, corporate, and government flight operations all train on a full-time basis. In fact, the only segment of aviation that doesn't train full time is general aviation.
Multi Time Building while flying around the World In February 1996 Mickey Russell helped former Astronaut Pete Conrad (Apollo 12) and Phil Thayer fly a Lear 35 around the world (The Lear now hangs from the ceiling at Denver International Airport). He was responsible for portions of the ground logistics, on air media reports and ATC logistics of the world record flight. He was also in charge of a concurrent simulated flight following Pete and Phil on their flight. Mr. Russell was inspired by the ultimate aviation adventure. In preparing for the world record flight he discovered that only a small percentage of pilots have ever flown around the world (less than 300), making this is one of the rarest completed adventures known. To draw a comparison, there have been over 1200 successful climbs on Mt Everest per year. In 2004 Mr. Russell started researching aircraft, routes, gas prices, landing fees, navigation fees, handling fees, ease of travel in different countries and several other factors on setting up a regular round the world flight for pilots. In some places he found fuel costing over $65 per US gallon, $1,500 landing fees and several other "gotcha factors" of flying around the world. Our goal was the find the cheapest and safest route around the world. We found that this is always changing (almost daily) and that we will always be changing our routing to maximize the fun and keep the cost down.
Map of our Current Routing
Cheap time building vs Around the world Time Building You can always find someone offering cheap multi-engine flight time in their old Piper Apache or Beech Duchess for rock bottom prices. But, you get what you pay for, old equipment and just flying around a small area, getting bored after the 3rd or 4th day. Granted this is the cheapest way to build multi-engine flight time, but is it really your best option. If you want to stand out of the crowd with Premium Cabin Class Multi-Engine flight time in a pressurized aircraft, then this is the program for you. Weather you are just time building or wanting to fulfill that life long dream (or both), our round the world multi-engine program is what you should consider. |
