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Old Aug 18, 2013, 12:49 pm
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Originally Posted by davidsfo
That being said, pilots will candidly tell you that flying a 2 engine plane over the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean with no landing strip available for hours on end makes them a lot more nervous that flying the polar routes.
Why? I'm sure you're much farther from any landing site on the polar routes than over the ocean.
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