Fun topic and for me very timely. While I never would have ever imagined the following 2 items on a personal bucket list, present circumstances as of this past Monday, now make them a possible reality: Flying(not as PIC) an airplane from the United Kingdom to Toronto over the North Atlantic and becoming familiar with an all glass cockpit. Let me explain.

Two partners and myself are seriously considering purchasing a plane equipped with a G1000 that is in England. If all goes well in the next 10 days to 2 weeks, we have opted to have it ferried over by a professional ferry pilot rather than dismantled and shipped in a container(much cheaper and far less hassle). There is room for one passenger. None of us have much familiarity with glass so one of us could get about a 22 hour head start on being checked out. The thought of flying the North Atlantic in a SE airplane is intimidating and frankly scares the s**t out of me(even though Alcock and Brown were the first to do it 94 years ago) but what an incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience it would be.

Still thinking about it. We are sending our Aircraft Maintence Enginner(AME) to the UK to meet the selller's AME to do the pre-inspection. If all is in order, one of us just might make the thrill of a lifetime flight...or not