Motivation

Being an aviation enthusiast from long time ago, I finally got my private pilot license PPL(A) in March 2003. After several years flying single engine Cessna regularly, you can't help but wonder how a ferry delivery flight from the Cessna factory in the USA to Europe would be, with the whole Atlantic Ocean awaiting in the route.

In 2006, six brand new Cessna (two 172S Skyhawk SP and four 172R Skyhawk) arrived to my local Aeroclub at Sabadell. In 2008 another two Cessna 182T Skylane joined their cousins. All of them equipped with state-of-the-art Garmin G1000 “glass cockpit”.



Therefore my curiosity increased and eventually I wanted to try and do the trip myself from the safety of home, avoiding its risks, high costs and extreme temperatures.

The Cessna company traditionally built piston aircraft at its Wichita factory (KCEA - Cessna Aircraft-Wichita Airport, Kansas) until 1986, when the production ceased. Ten years after that, the manufacturing of the 172, 182 and 206 models was restarted in a new factory at Independence.



My goal here is to perform the voyage from the new Independence factory at KIDP - Independence Mun. Airport, Kansas, to my local Aeroclub airport at LELL - Sabadell Airport, Spain with a single engine Cessna in Flight Simulator 2004.



The flights will be mainly IFR, in real time and with realistic weather from ActiveSky, but as I want an old style gauges cockpit for more fun, the used aircraft will be the no longer manufactured Cessna R182 Skylane II RG by Carenado.