No problem. Anyone brave enough to teach me to fly should have no qualms about ferrying a 150 across the Atlantic and down the length of Africa.
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We often get asked if a private jet can fly as far as a commercial plane can, and in most cases, yes they can! However, there are very few aircraft that can cross the Pacific Ocean.
Jet streams, which are a system of air currents that circle the Earth many miles above the planet's surface, are another reason why aircraft don't fly over the Pacific Ocean. Due to Earth's rotation, these air currents often move from West to East.
The CESSNA Citation LATITUDE jet offers a wide, flat-floor with a 6-foot stand-up cabin at a midsize price. Coupled with a range to take you 2,700 nm, you can fly nonstop from Los Angeles to New York or Geneva to Dubai. There's a reason it's the best-selling midsize business jet for the last three years.
A Cessna 172 Skyhawk has a range of about 800 miles on a full tank of fuel; that's about the same distance from New York City to Detroit (in Michigan), Columbus (in Ohio), or Windsor (in Ontario, Canada).
They include: Fuel: A Cessna 172 burns about 7-9 gallons per hour, with Avgas typically costing around $6 per gallon. Hence, your hourly fuel costs may range between $42 and $54 per hour of flight time.
Most flights are intended to spend as little time as possible over water, since storms are more common over the ocean than on land. An aircraft would not be safe to fly over the Pacific Ocean due to the stormy weather and frequent lightning strikes that occur there.