[Jim Goose]

Ugh now that would be fun.. lol

Longest trip I had "planned" was Townsville to Sydney in a brand new C206 (50hrs old) in 2001/2? I think.

I was to drop off the owner in Toowoomba and then fly out the next day.
Next day the magneto had failed (on startup?) so i was stuck there for 2 days while a replacement came up from Sydney.

2hrs from Sydney the weather turned nasty and I was forced to climb to 11000ft, were I just sat with the wheels on top of some very flat cloud.
(My instrument rating had expired as I never used it in NQ!)

The plane had some mods and service bulletins to be done under warranty in sydney.
2 weeks later I picked it up.
I left Sydney late as it wasnt ready in time.
No probs I thought as I was only going to Toowoomba.
An hour after take-off one VHF failed.
Great.
Close to Toowoomba no2 VHF started to fail as well so I didnt know if the airfield lights had got my transmission.
I had mobile phone coverage, so I rang the owner to get him there to make sure the runway lights were on.

While talking on the phone the autopilot decided to go for a dive!
(The autopilot failures and radio failures was part of the problems under warrantly, so glad they fixed it!)

Talk about quality control for something that cost over $300 000 and was only 50 odd hours old.