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That's correct, I didn't take that one. I didn't take this one either along the nearby coast. Or did I ??? :rolleyes: Not even a blade of grass... right down to the pacific ocean. Of course there's no point looking at any of these photos unless you read those two long messages from a couple...

For the Atacama, that's a relatively cloudy day. Of course that's half joking, because actual cloudy days are rare in the Atacama. I spent months in the Atacama, and I can assure you, that is approximately what the sky looks like. Portions of the Milky Way are so bright you see it in color...

I'll see if I can find where I say that. I don't have several hundred hours flying on moonless nights. I have several hundred hours flying (about 400 hours), which includes several long night flights. That's several night flights, not several hundred. I'll be surprised if I made that...

Then they'll never understand why they wasted so much time on this "stupid thread". Which is fine, most of them didn't want to understand anyway. And probably couldn't. BTW, I type super fast, so big deal. OTOH, I generate typos almost as fast. :eek:

You're kidding, right? The answer is no. I have no idea what that's all about, and have no intention to read the whole thing.

<continued from previous message ::: character limit exceeded> True, the south-pacific isn't like the Atacama Desert. But the south-pacific isn't like what I experienced "back east" either... namely think haze with maybe 1 or 2 miles visibility in all directions... everywhere. Different...

I will definitely find and read that FAA Instrument Flying Handbook. Thanks for the tip. I never said I have a huge amount of flying experience. I only have somewhere around 400 hours. Furthermore, I've been totally clear this was all VFR. I also said I stay away from IMC like the plague...

For the record, I seriously doubt you know who I am. I've lived most of my life like a hermit, and only became well known in niche fields like astronomy, space sciences, optics, telescopes, robotics, computers, software, inorganic consciousness. My contact with aviation was minimal and pretty...

I could do that, but an amazing number of these small islands in the south pacific have airstrips. In fact, an amazing number of those airstrips have paved runways (seems like about half from my recollection). To be sure, there are also a fair number of truly dinky little islands that I would...

That's what I'm trying to do. But I don't see any reason I can't investigate narrower questions at the same time as wider and more general ones. As a practical matter, I can't order the airplane until I know what to order (many of those narrow questions). I have a few hundred hours. Don't...

Yes, tends to be. But in the case of the west and southwest sides of the Hawaiian islands, "tends" means well over 95%. Probably more like 98% or 99%. That's what your message sounded like to me. Maybe I misunderstand something. To me, ATC are people (controllers) in the tower AT an...

Yes, lots of research ahead of me. No question about that. A great many islands have airports or airstrips but apparently no airline service... at least as far as I can determine so far. I don't know how you can be certain every island that has even a small local inter-island shuttle flight...

A couple examples, if you don't mind. I did notice I accidentally oversimplified about weather in Hawaii, and may have implied weather conditions in Hilo are the same as Kona and everywhere else on a Hawaiian island. That was an oversight, and I clarified that mistake at length. If you think...

I don't convince myself of anything. I let reality convince me. That's how science works and that's how honesty works. Good luck with your notion that everyone functions the same, so you can know everything you need to know by simplistic measures like how many words people write.

I did describe the weather patterns. However, the first and smartest move is not to land at Hilo if the weather is bad, but instead keep flying through the gap between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa and land at Kona, which is the dry side of the island. Obviously the dry (west and southwest) sides of...

Frankly, I'm not sure the pipistrel would even hold together in a violent thunderstorm. I don't expect experience to help if the tail or wings are torn off inside a violent thunderstorm. This is yet another reason that my default plan was to avoid trouble more than prepare for it. Not that I...

JR outright lies about what I say. Ignore JR, or go read how he/she totally twists what I say into the exact opposite or rather close to the exact opposite.

My current plan is to have two 10" Dynon Skyview HDX displays, plus all the Dynon avioncs that backs that up. Actually, I listed the names and part numbers for pretty much all the avionics on the very first message in this thread, so you can go take a gander at that message. Hopefully you can...

Again, that's not what I said. What I said was, I doubt I'll every fly into an airport that has ATC, much less IFR/ILS systems. I did not say the reason was because the weather will always be great. What I said about weather in the warm parts of the pacific ocean tend to be good from dusk to...

Those are the aspects of IFR that make total sense to me. I got just a taste of that under the hood in private pilot training (just 2 or 3 hours). As far as instrument failure goes, I suppose my first and second response are: have backup instruments, and perhaps especially have portable ones...