10.15.98

Hawaiian International Flight Reports for September 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.

Mike Monce	HI10 time gate-to-gate: 35:40, FL200 HI11 time 42:10, FL200, longer time due to ong downwind on approach to 8L at PHNL HI30 time 25:20, 10,000 ft, some scattered clouds (which x-plane insists is overcast) at Kahului HI31 time 22:00, 10,000 ft, return trip to HNL uneventful., 2.1, Ready for my next assignment! I've been setting "realistic Realiability" to 1. Should I continue this, or are the mechanics at the airline really good? I know in the past this setting has caused, despite Austin's claim, too many failures. Mike Monce, Sept. 1, Sept 23, 105 Kona-stop at Kalulai, FL150, 36min. T storm on approach at Kalulai flight continues to HNL, FL150, 29min   130 HNL-stop Lanai City, 5,000ft, 17min. Interesting VFR approach to Lanai, Lanai-Hilo, FL180, 30 min.   183 Hilo-Kona, 10,000 ft (to get over mtn.) 18 minutes, 2.2, It seems to me that a number of these short hop flights (especially the Hilo-Kona) would be more economical made with the ATR rather burning a lot of fuel at low altitude with a 757. Just trying to save the airline some money
Dennis Glosik	HI636-637 San Fran. - San Diego 2:09 HI130-131 Honolulu-Hilo (stop over in kahului) 1:31 (heavy weather) HI4504-4505 Milan - Nice (stop over in barcelona) 3:55 , 7hr 35 min, Autopilot went nuts on final descent to san diego. 4512 - 4513 Milan - Berlin - Milan Total time 2hr 39min Flights were uneventful   4514 - 4515 Milan - Warsaw - Milan Total time 2hr 57min. Flights were uneventful   4516 - 4517 Milan - Prague - Milan WHOA!!!!!!!!! , 7hr 46 min, on 4516 Milan to Prague I had the strangest thing happen. Conditions were IFR minimums to begin with BUT: downwind to ruzyne (prague) I encountered serious electrical failure (not to be mistaken with swissair). I lost almost everything. artificial horizon, ILS, GPS..etc etc. the only thing that worked was the radio altitude system, Ceilings were 1000 scattered so final was done very low and very delibrately. In the end the wheels chirped sweetly and none of the passengers knew any better as to what happened. ALSO...great scenery flying over the swiss alps. Total time 2hr 10min.
Kay Nemoto	HS107C KOA - OGG B757 0:26 HS108C OGG - KOA MD80 0:23 HS160 KOA - LIH B757 0:46 HS161 LIH - KOA B757 0:47 HS15 KOA - HNL B737 0:38 HS105 HNL - OGG - KOA B737 0:52, 3:52, I just returned from Hong Kong. It was my first time there since the opening of their new airport, and no need to mention that the new airport is much bigger and cleaner than the old Kai Tak. Personally, new and modern airport lacks in the rather Oriental atmosphere when you first exit the customs, but I guess that's how things are.
Bruno Glaviano	HI 12 Honolulu-Kona B737 32 min HI 12 Kona-Honolulu B737 36 min HI 72 Honolulu Lanai ATR 28 min. Flight was longer, following the flight plan programmed by Flightplanner: it took more time, but I arrived exactly aligned with Lanai's runway HI 73 Lanai Honolulu ATR 24 min First flight with X-Plane 4.20, visual approach and landing on rwy26 HI 84 Honolulu Lihue B737 22 min. Landing under a (guess?) rainstorm. The first time I will find fine weather at Lihue I will pay a bottle of wine to everybody! HI 85 Lihue Honolulu B737 21 minutes Uneventful flight back to hub. HI 4506 Milan Rome A340 53 min Very nice evening flight, with the stars above and the lights of beautiful italian cities below. Longer approach: strong westerly wind forced landing on rwy 25. Excellent IFR flight with X-Plane 4.21 HI 4510 Rome Athens A310 1 hour 31 min. Long (for me) flight to lovely Greece. I was able to hold the complete flight without auto-pilot, in 5 minutes less than planned, with a fine approach and landing using SAS excellent approach chart. Athens Iraklion LGIR Gulfstream V, 36 min. A fine flight over the islands, with a superb plane (excellent instrument panel and engine sound). BUT, failure probability was set to 1 and I was left without the nose gear. I don't think, Austin, that in real world every flight of eight you are left without instruments or landing gear! Why did I went to the island of Crete? Easy asnwer: to spend my holidays. See you in October again. (For real holidays, I will fly from Milan LIMC directly to Iraklion LGIR in 2 hours 40 min in an MD-83. Hope to take good photos, the flight is early in the morning). 5 hours43 minutes
Patrick Richardson	HI05 757-200ER 47min HI14 737-800 38min HI902 737-900 38min HI903 737-700 42min, 2hrs45min
Stephan Buchmann	HI32 22min HI33 23min HI113 25min, 31min, total 57min HI114 35min,25min, total 1 hour, 2h42min
Reza Gorji	HI01 KOA-ITO My 2nd most favorite flight as many of you know. Boeing757 Uneventful 30 min HI02 ITO-KOA Boeing757 Uneventful 30 min HI34 HNL-OGG Boeing 737 20 min. Some turbulence at FL100 HI52 HNL- MKK ATR Quick trip to the old country 15 min HI53 MKK-HNL ATR 15 min HI70, 71 HNL-Lanai-HNL As usual difficult apporach especially when windy 40 min HI80 HNL-LIH My all time favorite flight B757 24 min Rain, Thunder & Lightning HI81 LIH-HNL B757 27 min Rain, Thunder & Lightning made a challenge HI150 OGG-ITO 25 min HI170 KOA-OGG 20 minutes HI171 OGG-KOA 25 minutes HI181 KOA-ITO 19 minutes Awesome scenery HI182 OGG-ITO 22 minutes HI184 KOA-ITO 20 minutes HI185 OGG-ITO 24 minutes HI605 MIA-PBI 20 min HI606 PBI-MIA 20 min HI609 MIA-EYW 25 min HI610 EYW-KOA 25 min HI635 SFO-Scaramento Trouble with finding sacramento on GPS. Returned to SFO without landing at the missing Sacramento!!!!!! 40 min HI820 SLC-SFO SLC is at high altitude!!! 75 minutes HI4010 MIA to Nassua 45 min Hi4011 Nassau to MIA 40 minutes HI4500 Milan to Vienna via Munich 90 min First time in a while doing Europe; Nice HI4501 Vienna to Milan via Munich 95 min HI4502 Milan- Paris 75 min HI4503 Paris-Milan 75 min Did not fly rest of my bids. Will be more careful next time.
Albert Tanneberg	Albert Tanneberg, Sept 20, 1998, Sept 28, 1998, HI 102 PHNL - PHOG VIS10 Wind 90@10 Gate to Gate 24:00 B737 PHOG - PHKO VIS10 Wind light+variable Gate to Gate 25:00 B737   HI 103 PHKO - PHOG VIS10 Wind 120 @ 6 Gate to Gate 26:00 B737 PHOG - PHNL VIS10 Wind 60 @ 7 Gate to Gate 30:00 B737   HI 186 PHKO - PHMU VIS10 Wind light+variable Gate to Gate 12:30 KingAir PHMU - PHTO Ceiling 3700 Wind 100 @ 7 Gate to Gate 22:30 KingAir Because of the low conditions I had to do a long outbound approach   HI 187 PHTO - PHMU Ceiling 3700 Wind 270 @ 6 Gate to Gate 23:30 KingAir PHMU - PHKO VIS10 Wind light+variable Gate to Gate 14:30 KingAir, 3, No problems so far, but the approach to PHMU with VIS3 at ceiling 3700 to 4000 was really interesting, I really enjoyed my first assignments and I am waiting for the next flight.   Greetings Albert
Dan Anderson	F# Time 630 - 0:34 631 - 0:27 632 - 0:48 633 - 0:49 811 - 0:56 810 - 1:06 813 - 0:51 812 - 0:48 817 - 1:18 816 - 1:07 819 - 1:05 818 - 1:12 821 - 1:09 822 - 1:17, 13:27, 632 - Due to wind sheer, received minor damage to rudder control. Darn "RealWeather"! Quite a bit of wx change coming out of FL110. No problem landing with a little rudder trim., Sorry to take so long to get this info to you. My modem "went south". Long term, good news as I now am running either 34K or 56K with a new modem, depending on if I have this thing hooked up properly now., Submit
Jon Hay	DATE FLIGHT EQUIP DEPT DEST OFF ON TIME FLOWN TIME 01-Sep-98 HI030 737 PHNL PHTO 23:35 00:06 00:31 01-Sep-98 HI040 737 PHTO PHNL 22:42 23:21 00:39 01:10 01-Sep-98 HI600 EMB120 KMIA KEYW 12:38 13:09 00:31 01-Sep-98 HI601 EMB120 KEYW KMIA 20:33 21:05 00:32 01:03 01-Sep-98 HI603 MD80 KMIA KMCO 22:37 23:22 00:45 01-Sep-98 HI604 MD80 KMCO KMIA 12:59 13:38 00:39 01:24 03:37, 3:37,
Philip Delaquess	I flew routes 86, 87, 100, 101, 915 and 916 for a total of 4.2 hours.

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