…launched this morning from Southend, he should reach his first and only scheduled stop at Abuja, Nigeria, at about 1am UK time. If you’re interested there’s a link to his tracker on the website http://www.thecaperun.co.uk/rolling.html
Cheers,
Davski
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th November 2010 at 18:34
I know the route, especially everything south of Abuja, like the back of my hand. The thunderstorms tops can attain altitudes of 50,000ft. It has been raining fairly heavily almost every day for the last two weeks here in Libreville. Therefore choice of season is a critical factor. I would have thought N.H. summertime would be a better bet because that time of year from the equator southwards there are very few thunderstorms. He doesn’t mention what time of year the other guys did it. Personally I would not penetrate any thunderstorm with a small plane like that, you will find many fatal accidents in the register from inflight breakups, spatial disorientation etc. He’s a brave man to say the least.
By: topgun regect - 21st October 2010 at 15:43
Updates from the Cape Run site:
20 Oct 2010 6:25 pm
Regrettably, while we’ve been anxiously waiting for word from Taff he’s been subjected to all manner of drama and as a consequence has opted to divert to Windhoek, approximately 700 miles north of Cape Town in Namibia, with full comms and cockpit instrument failure. Details are sketchy at the moment but we believe that the west coast CB’s were dramatically oppressive and Taff finished up with a deluge of water in the cockpit and no instrumentation, including ASI or comms. In addition there seems to have been a fuel related problem which manifested itself when Taff swapped tanks, we have no further information at the moment but I gather that the decision has been taken to hangar the aircraft and reassess the situation in the morning.
21 Oct 2010 1:00 pm
Given the nature of yesterdays events it would be foolhardy to continue with the flight until we’ve been able to inspect the aircraft in greater detail. Obviously that takes time and we can’t expect the support teams to remain on station indefinitely so I would suggest that, for now at least, the Cape Run is postponed. I’m sure we’ll publish more details in the days ahead but in the meantime I’d like to thank everyone for their support and I’m sorry we couldn’t deliver better news.
Shame about the tech issues but at least he was able to divert an land safely. It could have been worse if he had been over the mid Sahara and had engine failure or worse.
Martin
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October 19, 2010 at 10:48 am