Hawaiian International Flight Reports

7.25.98

Hawaiian International Flight Reports for July 1998

Flight Reports are placed here from our famous world class pilots.

They are reported in the order in which I recieve them ie: The first one who files gets the first listing.

Don Willis

HI101c PHKO - PHTO 747 :25 minutes

HI102c PHTO - PHKO MD80 :22 minutes

HI103c PHKO - PHLI MD80 :42 minutes

HI104c PHLI - PHKO MK80 :41 minutes, 2.1, No problems to report

Kay Nemoto

HS30/31 HNL - OGG - HNL B737 0:52

HS80/81 HNL - LIH - HNL B737 0:50

HS82/83 HNL - LIH - HNL B737 0:50

HS84/85 HNL - LIH - HNL B737 0:47, 3:19, First month flying the route with version 4.0.

I found it much more fun to fly in the daytime than in the nighttime,

while I used to like the nights better with previous versions.

I guess this is all due to the texture mapping.

I wouldn't mind seeing city area textures, something we

don't have at this moment

Reza Gorji

HI82 HNL to LIH 737 30 min

HI83 LIH to HNL 30 min

HI300 HNL-SFO Condorde 2.5 hrs

HI304 SFO-ORD Concorde 1.5 hrs

Testing new routes and XP4.0 Scenery

HI-- ORD-JFK 737 1.2 hrs diverted to Pitt. Pregnant patient on baord decided to have baby. Continued to JFK minus one pass.

HI-- JFK-MIA 737 3 hrs

HI432 MIA to Nassua 45 minutes

HI433 Nassua to MIA 45 minutes

HI607 MIA-TPA 737 40 min

HI608 TPA-MIA 737 35 min

HI611 MIA-EYW via Marathon 1 hr 20 minutes CitationX

HI612 EYW to MIA via Marathon 1 hour 14 minutes CitationX

The east coast scenery for XP4 is phenomenal!!!!

XP4.1 is slow. Back to XP4.0

New Schedules to come out in August.

Jonathan Hay

Jonathan Hay, 7/1/98, 7/20/98, AIRCRAFT TIME TIME FLIGHT HRS TTL

DATE FLIGHT EQUIP DEPART DEST OFF ON TIME FLOWN TIME

01-Jul-98 HI01 737 PHNL PHTO 20:21 21:03 00:42

01-Jul-98 HI02 737 PHTO PHNL 23:08 23:45 00:37 01:19

01-Jul-98 HI601 EMB120 KMIA KEYW 00:42 01:15 00:33

01-Jul-98 HI602 EMB120 KEYW KMIA 13:52 14:21 00:29 01:02

01-Jul-98 HI607 727 KMIA KTPA 00:05 00:49 00:44

01-Jul-98 HI608 737 KTPA KMIA 17:28 18:00 00:32 01:16 03:37, 3:37

Bruno Glaviano

Bruno Glaviano, 1 jul 1998, 21 jul 1998, HI 02 737 36í at cruise altitude I finally realised that the high drag was caused by the gear still lowered! I then tried the anti-noise angled approach on rwy 26 at Honolulu, everything was smooth but I landed on 22L! So I stopped for a while in Honolulu to do some correct approaches and landings on rwy 8L.

HI 32 B767 20í first flight with X-Plane 4. Superb graphics, but I had to fine-tune my joystick and the software so the flight was conducted with heavy use of auto-pilot. Smooth landing.

HI 51-73 ATR-42 20í+30í fine orientation flights with ATR, real weather gave heavy winds with wind-shear and the ATR was jumping like a crazy horse. But, as always, very smooth landings right on the runway.

HI 102 B737 27í again, flight in a thunderstorm

HI 131 B737 43í one of the last flights with X-Plane HSR, very smooth and relaxing

HI 230 B777 45í a fine and quick jump with the super-fast 777, to fine-tune X-Plane 4. Fair wind at San Francisco.

HI 507 A340 55í this was intended to be an easy, relaxing flight just to add some flying time. But, when I was cruising, I was informed that I couldít rely on nose gear for landing. Weather at destination was fine, with good visibility and no wind (real weather, we are having a fine summer in Europe), so I continued my cruise , descent and approach. I completed final approach swimming in my own adrenaline, the heavy 340 touched down like a feather, I held the nose up to slow speed, until it went down itself to scratch Malpensa 35R. This was the best I could do.

HI 504 B767 1h 21í A fine flight, with X-Plane 4, joystick and real-weather finely-tuned. With the last patch from Austin, the Boeings no longer have that ennerving pitch-up. No more cruising with nose 5 degrees under the horizon, or approaches with brakes out all the way. Cruising at 30.000ft with the 767 at mach 0,86 was a very fast way to get to Barcelona.

5h 53'

Scott Forman

Flt HI600 - 27 Minutes

Flt HI601 - 26 Minutes

Flt HI603 - 28 Minutes

Flt HI604 - 32 Minutes

Flt HI605 - 18 Minutes

Flt HI606 - 19 Minutes

Total flight time - 2.5 hrs

Dan Anderson

HI-200, HNL/SEA 4.9 Hours, 4.9 hours, Two near misses

1. 425 nm out of SEA head-on within 140 feet

2. 385 nm out of SEA head-on within 160 feet - seeing nav lights, Upon arrival to SEA, ILS 34R was off by 500-600 yards 34R was approx. 25' above the ground

Anderson, Dan, ?, July 27, 1998, July 26, 1998

HI201 - 6hrs 36mins, 6.6, Due to IFR wx conditions at HNL, IFR approach was difficult. Landed by jockeying last minute (ceiling 600'). Everything uneventful., No problem with scheduling me for any short hops, either. I enjoy SFO/LAX, Tokyo NRT to other cities in Japan, JFK to BUF etc. Hopping from LAX-JFK, for example, is fine (stops in DFW, STL, ORD, BUF, JFK, for example.) Any problem with using RealWeather for as much reality as possible?

Patrick Richardson

HI228 A340-500 3hrs50min

HI603 737-700 58min

HI607 MD-88 1hr10min

HI632 A320-200 51min

HI636 A320 1hr10min, 7hrs52min, Lowlevel windshear on approach to Orlando caused a 20 knot loss of airspeed and a go-around was initiated. ATC was notified and our second attempt at landing, a non-precision approach, was executed without any problems., Can wait for the new schedules we should have all the new flights in by now.

Philip Delaquess

HI30,HI31 - 0.8

HI50,HI51 - 0.7

HI70,HI71 - 0.7

HI80,HI81 - 1.0

, 3.2

Map courtesy of Patrick Richardson

Don Willis	HI101c PHKO - PHTO 747 :25 minutes HI102c PHTO - PHKO MD80 :22 minutes HI103c PHKO - PHLI MD80 :42 minutes HI104c PHLI - PHKO MK80 :41 minutes, 2.1, No problems to report
Kay Nemoto	HS30/31 HNL - OGG - HNL B737 0:52 HS80/81 HNL - LIH - HNL B737 0:50 HS82/83 HNL - LIH - HNL B737 0:50 HS84/85 HNL - LIH - HNL B737 0:47, 3:19, First month flying the route with version 4.0. I found it much more fun to fly in the daytime than in the nighttime, while I used to like the nights better with previous versions. I guess this is all due to the texture mapping. I wouldn't mind seeing city area textures, something we don't have at this moment
Reza Gorji	HI82 HNL to LIH 737 30 min HI83 LIH to HNL 30 min HI300 HNL-SFO Condorde 2.5 hrs HI304 SFO-ORD Concorde 1.5 hrs Testing new routes and XP4.0 Scenery HI-- ORD-JFK 737 1.2 hrs diverted to Pitt. Pregnant patient on baord decided to have baby. Continued to JFK minus one pass. HI-- JFK-MIA 737 3 hrs HI432 MIA to Nassua 45 minutes HI433 Nassua to MIA 45 minutes HI607 MIA-TPA 737 40 min HI608 TPA-MIA 737 35 min HI611 MIA-EYW via Marathon 1 hr 20 minutes CitationX HI612 EYW to MIA via Marathon 1 hour 14 minutes CitationX The east coast scenery for XP4 is phenomenal!!!! XP4.1 is slow. Back to XP4.0 New Schedules to come out in August.
Jonathan Hay	Jonathan Hay, 7/1/98, 7/20/98, AIRCRAFT TIME TIME FLIGHT HRS TTL DATE FLIGHT EQUIP DEPART DEST OFF ON TIME FLOWN TIME 01-Jul-98 HI01 737 PHNL PHTO 20:21 21:03 00:42 01-Jul-98 HI02 737 PHTO PHNL 23:08 23:45 00:37 01:19 01-Jul-98 HI601 EMB120 KMIA KEYW 00:42 01:15 00:33 01-Jul-98 HI602 EMB120 KEYW KMIA 13:52 14:21 00:29 01:02 01-Jul-98 HI607 727 KMIA KTPA 00:05 00:49 00:44 01-Jul-98 HI608 737 KTPA KMIA 17:28 18:00 00:32 01:16 03:37, 3:37
Bruno Glaviano	Bruno Glaviano, 1 jul 1998, 21 jul 1998, HI 02 737 36í at cruise altitude I finally realised that the high drag was caused by the gear still lowered! I then tried the anti-noise angled approach on rwy 26 at Honolulu, everything was smooth but I landed on 22L! So I stopped for a while in Honolulu to do some correct approaches and landings on rwy 8L. HI 32 B767 20í first flight with X-Plane 4. Superb graphics, but I had to fine-tune my joystick and the software so the flight was conducted with heavy use of auto-pilot. Smooth landing. HI 51-73 ATR-42 20í+30í fine orientation flights with ATR, real weather gave heavy winds with wind-shear and the ATR was jumping like a crazy horse. But, as always, very smooth landings right on the runway. HI 102 B737 27í again, flight in a thunderstorm HI 131 B737 43í one of the last flights with X-Plane HSR, very smooth and relaxing HI 230 B777 45í a fine and quick jump with the super-fast 777, to fine-tune X-Plane 4. Fair wind at San Francisco. HI 507 A340 55í this was intended to be an easy, relaxing flight just to add some flying time. But, when I was cruising, I was informed that I couldít rely on nose gear for landing. Weather at destination was fine, with good visibility and no wind (real weather, we are having a fine summer in Europe), so I continued my cruise , descent and approach. I completed final approach swimming in my own adrenaline, the heavy 340 touched down like a feather, I held the nose up to slow speed, until it went down itself to scratch Malpensa 35R. This was the best I could do. HI 504 B767 1h 21í A fine flight, with X-Plane 4, joystick and real-weather finely-tuned. With the last patch from Austin, the Boeings no longer have that ennerving pitch-up. No more cruising with nose 5 degrees under the horizon, or approaches with brakes out all the way. Cruising at 30.000ft with the 767 at mach 0,86 was a very fast way to get to Barcelona. 5h 53'
Scott Forman	Flt HI600 - 27 Minutes Flt HI601 - 26 Minutes Flt HI603 - 28 Minutes Flt HI604 - 32 Minutes Flt HI605 - 18 Minutes Flt HI606 - 19 Minutes Total flight time - 2.5 hrs
Dan Anderson	HI-200, HNL/SEA 4.9 Hours, 4.9 hours, Two near misses 1. 425 nm out of SEA head-on within 140 feet 2. 385 nm out of SEA head-on within 160 feet - seeing nav lights, Upon arrival to SEA, ILS 34R was off by 500-600 yards 34R was approx. 25' above the ground Anderson, Dan, ?, July 27, 1998, July 26, 1998 HI201 - 6hrs 36mins, 6.6, Due to IFR wx conditions at HNL, IFR approach was difficult. Landed by jockeying last minute (ceiling 600'). Everything uneventful., No problem with scheduling me for any short hops, either. I enjoy SFO/LAX, Tokyo NRT to other cities in Japan, JFK to BUF etc. Hopping from LAX-JFK, for example, is fine (stops in DFW, STL, ORD, BUF, JFK, for example.) Any problem with using RealWeather for as much reality as possible?
Patrick Richardson	HI228 A340-500 3hrs50min HI603 737-700 58min HI607 MD-88 1hr10min HI632 A320-200 51min HI636 A320 1hr10min, 7hrs52min, Lowlevel windshear on approach to Orlando caused a 20 knot loss of airspeed and a go-around was initiated. ATC was notified and our second attempt at landing, a non-precision approach, was executed without any problems., Can wait for the new schedules we should have all the new flights in by now.
Philip Delaquess	HI30,HI31 - 0.8 HI50,HI51 - 0.7 HI70,HI71 - 0.7 HI80,HI81 - 1.0 , 3.2