Whoooa, what a day! And what an emotional arrival in Guam. We can’t believe that a whole bunch of friends at home were busy listening to us and following our every move on ATC live while we were out there in the cauldron trying to make sure that nothing went too pear shaped. Ah well,

We’ve just heard from Michelle that our Guam approval is through. That’s such great news as we’re starting to get a bit of cabin fever here in Taoyuan. It’s been an interesting stay, but hey, we’re trying to get to LA, not take a break in Taiwan! Here’re a couple of shots to give an

Sorry we’ve been a bit slack at keeping our latest news up to date. We’re off to Taipei city centre later today and we’ll see if there’s a good quiet place to do a short video update for a change. First things first – we’ve had an interesting but quite isolating couple of days here

Mike will be leaving for LA next week & he is taking with another satellite tracking unit kindly sponsored by Indigosat with internal & external antenna, as well as additionally, a portable tracker too. We have however asked Jean not to go out mid-flight again to tie the washing line to the antenna and the

Hi RainierI have been wanting to write to you quite badly for the past few days. In fact I wrote you quite a story yesterday but somehow lost it in posting and was p….. off as my typing speed is a bit slow to quickly bang out another. I want to let you know just

This morning Jean and I woke up at 09h30 local time, just missing the hotel breakfast. We shared a double bed last night for the first time on the trip – in every other hotel we’ve had a room with two beds, as it’s cheapest and most convenient. Up to now Phuket Air Park has

James has just called to say they are down and happy and are being taken care of by very friendly Taiwanese officials. Apart from some naughty cb’s which they had to dodge in the moonlight for a few hours after take off, the flight went really well and the plane performed absolutely flawlessly. Well done

Exactly 30 hours ago Jean and I were settled into a ‘Dang Beach Bugalow’ room planning dinner on the beach at the beautiful Nai Yang, just off the threshold of runway 09 at Phuket Thailand, followed by an early night. Then the Taiwan the Singaporean permissions came in over my cellphone, the weather suddenly looked

Boy-o-boy it was a busy day. I lost count of the calls to J & J today and Michelle from Flight Permits (who worked on the permissions all day). At one point I received this e-mail from Michelle: Dear Michelle, To be honest with you, your aircraft is the lightest aircraft ever fly into Taiwan.

Right now as I type this I’m sitting on my bed in a lovely palm frond-thatched guesthouse at the Phuket Air Park. Thanks Suchard (Robert) Raksongob, a keen aviator-businessman and the developer of the Air Park who has made this our home from home for the past two days. We really are being looked after