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KR2 World Tour Fancy an Unsupported Trip Around the World in a Single-Seat Homebuilt? Just Take Off and Go with the Flow KR2 World Tour Fancy an unsupported trip around the world in a single-seat homebuilt? Just take off and go with the flow Words & Photos Colin Hales t’s a simple title but touring the Beyond the bounds of a small Cotswold You might think there would be endless world in my KR2 is simply what I’m gliding club, not that many people know planning for such a journey and I have trying to do. I wanted to fly from A of my journey. I have written articles for indeed spent many hours researching and to B, have an easy crossing of the the LAA magazine and there is a blog and gathering information from the ‘Air North Atlantic and continue a website which detail some of the flights. Information Publications’ of all the westwardsI around the world. Since the In this Pilot article, I want to relate some countries I would visit. I’m not averse to aircraft is still snowed in at an Alaskan of the background and events that long trips, having taken some 66 flights to airfield, however, not everything has gone surround such an adventure, as I see these get to Australia in my KR with a Belgian to plan and I’ve visited X, Y and Z along as equally important to the flights. And I friend in 2002. The experiences gained the way. Now, staring at the Russian hope to bust some misconceptions about from that journey taught me an important border, my little plane and I feel quite flying around the world, including lesson: if you plan early, you plan twice! overwhelmed and out of our depth, but as planning, money, sponsorship, media and This is because not many plans actually go soon as the snow has melted we’ll be off the equipment or type of aircraft that is to schedule. We had weather delays into the unknown. supposedly required. causing visas and permits to expire, forced 64 | Pilot June 2016 www.pilotweb.aero Flying Adventure | KR2 Earthrounder the country you are flying into, before Who’s the celebrity going with you?” With you arrive. This is highlighted in bold on a shake of the head I explained that I the Permit to Fly document. knew no one famous, it was just me going Unfortunately, some countries won’t on my own−and with that, I was quickly give this permission. They don’t have shown the door and dismissed for wasting to, it’s not their problem and they don’t everyone’s time. What is this fascination care. I’m not anti-establishment, but I with celebrities? am anti the ‘you can’t do that because It was much the same with sponsorship, a piece of paper says so’ attitude. although one potential sponsor was honest Iceland’s CAA is rewriting its AIP after I enough to explain why they were not fell foul of this issue in Reykjavik. It interested: they didn’t think I could do the took three of their employees fifteen journey, I wouldn’t make it and they minutes to find a sub-paragraph in an didn’t want their logo on my plane, annex of their AIP regarding foreign permit sticking out of the trees or floating in the Main image: one for the record — Colin’s acheivement requirements. The Canadians took over a water. Fair enough. So I would like to celebrated by posing his KR2 in front of the arch at month and four separate departments thank my one and only sponsor−my Oshkosh when he arrived in 2014 before someone could find a document that family−for their support. See Mum; I told covered what was required by our UK LAA, you all this flying madness would get me in Inset above: a big smile covers any anxiety as Colin by which time I’d flown through Canada print someday. cuts through valleys where the only force-landing and was halfway across America! In the end I just set off to try to get as option is to make the crash survivable I think that some of my unsupported far as I could; ‘try to’ being the operative flights, the places I’ve been and the words. I have a feeling that if I ever say “I Right: typical baggage load, including the beloved scrapes I’ve got into are on a par with am flying around the world, it’s what I am mountain bike — it all has to fit in somehow! many of the adventure shows I watch on doing, it’s what I will do!” the journey will TV. For me, being unsupported is a reality bite back. Now in my third year of travel, rather than a necessity. I don’t like being it feels like the voyage has gained its own on my own, but there is only me and my personality and mischief. If I’m too changes of route that meant constant plane and a few teddy bears. No ground confident, the journey will put me in a re-planning, and incorrect information that crew or chase plane, no film crew with field, in the trees or in the water. People meant getting the necessary paperwork canteen and medical support… just a tiny tell me, “I’m sure you’ll make it”−I’m was often futile. It is far better just to set KR2 with hundreds of miles of freezing not! With some 18,000 miles left to go off, stay flexible and work out what is the water at times. until I get back to the UK and put the best plan as you fly along. I did want to film the journey, at least aircraft in my hangar, I won’t tempt fate. There are always going to be hurdles− for posterity, and had meetings at a couple Fate−and luck−have played a large part they shouldn’t come as any surprise. of well known TV production companies. in all my journeys already. I’m not the For me, a common obstacle came from We discussed what I was trying to do and best pilot in the world, but I’m good at interpreting the somewhat vague the producers seemed quite enthusiastic making decisions: the right decision at the requirements of flying an LAA Permit about the concept, offering to loan quality right time, making my own luck, I think aircraft overseas. Outside the UK, my KR2’s camera equipment so I could record the that’s quite important. Permit to Fly is not valid and the LAA flights visually. Then came the question, After the first leg up to Scotland, with insists you have to gain the permission of “So who do you know that’s famous? new ignition parts from Jabiru failing on www.pilotweb.aero Pilot June 2016 | 65 Flying Adventure | KR2 Earthrounder No one nearby to say it looks funny — and “the only way to stop my nose burning!” me (they were bogus), the journey nearly airfield will be and I know exactly how ended before it came alive and I used up a long it will take to get there. I will have huge chunk of luck during the first flight. I watched my fuel reserves, or I would have also cracked an oil cooler and landed in turned back before the point of no return. Kulusuk, Greenland, after four hours over It’s safe. water, with no measurable oil left in the And having a short range means I can’t engine. I’ve had many close shaves so far. go that far and get myself into trouble. I’m Often people look at my plane and say, never many miles from a rescue helicopter “You just don’t have a safe endurance”. base. Crossing the North Atlantic, I was Crossing the North Atlantic, I was only out of range of helicopter rescue twice... But I like my life and don’t want to put it only out of range of helicopter rescue twice at risk. With the short range, I may have and only for about half an hour of flight. To to fly at minimal fuel on some legs, but me, pilots with bigger aircraft and massive GPS allows me to do that. Before, planes fuel tanks, with hours of endurance, who had to carry more fuel so pilots could get fly non-stop, straight across the Atlantic close to their destination, cater for or Pacific−they are barking, not me! I increased headwinds, then circle for a wouldn’t do that. If their engine quits, they while to find the airfield, in case it was are waiting a few days to be picked up by difficult to spot. With GPS, I know the ship, if they are lucky. No thank you, I’ll headwinds, I know exactly where the stick with my KR2. From top to bottom: an oil river flowing inside the lower cowling — not what you want to see after four hours of flight over freezing water; some of Colin’s mascots perched on the stone marking the end of the Wright Flyer’s first, inspiring flight; waiting for an essential wardrobe item to emerge from laundering — “once in a while it had to be done,” says Colin; and the KR” at the Cactus Fly-in where “all my crew made friends” Right: Lockheed Constellation Columbine II — once Air Force One for President Eisenhower 66 | Pilot June 2016 www.pilotweb.aero Flying Adventure | Worldtour KR2 ‘Itzy’ meets Planes star ‘Dusty’s brother Leaving Oshkosh, there was still only just room for a pilot For me, travelling to other continents with At Sun ’n’ Fun in Florida, a strange thing my plane is something quite normal that happened.
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