Jerrie Mock's flight around the world

Experience aviation pioneer Jerrie Mock's epic 29-day solo flight around the world. This mission was created using research from the internet and information from Jerrie's book “Three-Eight Charlie” published by Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services. You follow Jerrie's flight east from Columbus, Ohio, and read short stories about each leg of the journey in the Navlog as you fly toward the starting point and destination of the journey to Columbus. Jerrie Mock was the first woman to fly solo around the world in 1964. Her long-standing interest in flying manifested itself in this record-breaking journey, which you can recreate in this mission.

Koschi's MSFS Missions aims to revive the history of this often forgotten American pioneer of aviation.

The airplane

The Cessna 180, as used by Jerrie Mock, is not yet available for the simulator. Instead, you fly the Cessna 185F Skywagon, which is available as payware on the MSFS marketplace. It has similar flight characteristics to the C 180 on which it was based, but is equipped with a slightly more powerful engine, an enlarged vertical stabilizer and a reinforced fuselage. If you do not wish to purchase the C 185, the Cessna Grand Caravan is available as an alternative, which of course offers far more performance and is hardly comparable to the model Jerrie Mock flew around the world in.

The navigation

At the time when Jerry Mock undertook this journey, there was no satellite navigation. It was mainly navigated using medium and short-wave radio beacons, which had a long range at the time and were therefore installed on very high antenna masts, but also by sight (VFR). Nowadays, these radio beacons are becoming less and less important due to modern satellite navigation and are gradually disappearing from the simulator. The same applies to VHF beacons, which we know as VOR/DME and which have become increasingly important over time. Navigation will therefore be a mix of radio navigation and visual flight. But you can also simply navigate using GPS, which Jerrie Mock couldn't do back then. Both aircraft are equipped for this. In the simulator, the GPS course is often no longer displayed correctly after the second or third leg. You can find help on how you can still use this type of navigation here: https://www.koschis-web.de/en-us/help-support#gps A mod for the autopilot has also been implemented for the C 180. This can only be controlled via keyboard input or joystick; there are no controls in the cockpit.

Teleport and saving progress

Some stages are very long; the longest takes around 18 hours. For long flights over the sea, where there is nothing to see but water, there is the option to teleport. You can decide for yourself if and when this function is triggered. How exactly this works is explained at the appropriate point in the Navlog. The flight is also saved at every waypoint flown over. The individual waypoints are never more than 200 nautical miles apart. You can therefore abort the flight at any time and then continue from the last waypoint overflown.

General information and feedback

Everything evolves, including the flight simulator. It can therefore happen that some things in this mission no longer work as intended after an update of the MSFS. If you notice anything, please let us know. The mission is multilingual and machine translated into all available languages of the MSFS. If you find any translation errors, please let us know as well. At the bottom of this page you will find a link to support. This will be displayed as soon as you have purchased this mission. There you can also give us feedback, which we are always open to, or report bugs. We would also appreciate a rating by leaving a few stars.

Koschis MSFS Missions wishes you a lot of fun with this mission and always happy landings.