Sunshine Coast teenager Lachie Smart is due back on Australian soil today on his record-breaking trip around the world.
Smart will fly from Jakarta to Broome today, with a scheduled arrival time of 4.15 pm Western Australian time.
He departed Halim Perdanakusuma at 00:53 UTC this morning (just before 9.00 am WA time) on a flight path that will take him out across the eastern Indian Ocean.
No doubt the Australian coast will be a welcome sight for Lachie, who for the past six weeks has been hopping from country to country, working with different national aviation authorities and air traffic controllers on a almost daily basis.
So far he has visited Fiji, American Samoa, Kiribati, Hawaii, mainland USA, Canada, the Azores, Great Britain, France, Greece, Egypt, Oman, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia.
From Broome Smart will fly east to Darwin, Longreach, Bundaberg and finally the Sunshine Coast by 27 August,
When he arrives home, Smart will be just 18 years, seven months and 21 days old, nearly a year younger than current record holder American Jack Guthmiller, who set the mark at 19 years, seven months and 15 days.
At the time of his departure from Jakarta this morning, Lachie was facing a Broome TAF that looked like this:
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