The State ATM Corporation provides services to a record flight

Antipode No. 1 was the UIUA Bichura landing ground, Russia, which the crew visited on 12 August. Antipode No. 2 and the final point will be SAWC El Calafate aerodrome, Argentina.

In Russia, the flight was conducted via Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk, Irkutsk, the village of Bichura, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Zeya, Blagoveshchensk, Okhotsk, Magadan, the villages of Tigil and Ust-Kamchatsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Anadyr and Providence Bay. On 25 August, after visiting Providence Bay, the crew safely left Russia and headed to the United States.

The flight in the airspace of the Russian Federation was operated under the supervision of the Main ATM Center and ATS centers of State ATM Corporation’s branches. The foreign pilots expressed appreciation for the highly able and professional manner in which the State ATM Corporation’s staff had provided services and information throughout the flight as well as for smooth radio communication in English on the whole and in Class G airspace in particular.

Over the next 100 days, the crew will visit 35 countries over four continents in the hopes of gaining the antipodal record conducted under FAI Sporting Code, Section 9 – Rotorcraft, 5.3.8: ‘Speed Around the World Through Antipodes’. The attempt will be coordinated by the National Air Sports Controls (NACs) of Brazil and the United Kingdom. The Sporting Code states that landing points must be announced in advance and changed only with at least 48 hours' notice. The time spent on the ground is also counted as the flight time. Andre de Freitas and Peter Wilson’s record attempt has been registered with the International Aviation Federation (FAI). If successful, the crew will set a new world record.