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rene86mx
Disclaimer: I'm not a pilot but I love flying so I take every opportunity I have to book a discovery flight whenever I'm travelling to the US. My wife (daughter of a pilot) hates flying and even more the idea of me flying.
When we were looking for potential vacation destinations I saw that Maui Aviators had a tour of the islands very similar to a discovery flight. It took my wife a couple of months to agree, after watching a couple of Youtube videos and some pictures I found in POA of somebody that did the same tour a couple of years ago.
Flash forward to last week. I woke up early and monitored Aeroweather for all of the surrounding airports. All of them were VFR, for me it was a GO.
When we got to the airport it was the classic setting of a small hometown airport with hangars and very friendly people. Yoo wouldn't think it's a Class C with a lot of helicopter operations, GVs and F900 on the tarmac.
We met our CFI and after discussing a little of my next to non-existent experience (2.3 hours of discovery flights) we checked the sectional where we discussed our route for the next 1.5 hours. We'd be departing PHOG runway 2, then heading 300 until Nakalele point and cross the channel to Molokai, then from Molokai we'll do the midfield transition over PHMK to Lanai where we'd see the shipwrecks before heading back to Molokini crater and PHOG. Needless to say I had done this route about 5 times in FSX so I knew what to expect.
I was very excited because my wife was coming with me and we were on vacations. I was so excited that I forgot to remove the cover from my GoPro lens. My wife thinks it was the most hilarious moment when she heard my reaction on the intercom. I have about 60 minutes of black screen with the great commentaries from the sights by our CFI and 30 minutes of the route to Maui/Molokini
It was a great way of beginning holidays. The service from Maui Aviators was great. My wife couldn't believe I did most of the flying+taxiing so now I have permission to pursue my PPL training. She loved even more the greaser that our CFI did to finish the flight.
I'd let the pictures do the rest of the explanation
When we were looking for potential vacation destinations I saw that Maui Aviators had a tour of the islands very similar to a discovery flight. It took my wife a couple of months to agree, after watching a couple of Youtube videos and some pictures I found in POA of somebody that did the same tour a couple of years ago.
Flash forward to last week. I woke up early and monitored Aeroweather for all of the surrounding airports. All of them were VFR, for me it was a GO.
When we got to the airport it was the classic setting of a small hometown airport with hangars and very friendly people. Yoo wouldn't think it's a Class C with a lot of helicopter operations, GVs and F900 on the tarmac.
We met our CFI and after discussing a little of my next to non-existent experience (2.3 hours of discovery flights) we checked the sectional where we discussed our route for the next 1.5 hours. We'd be departing PHOG runway 2, then heading 300 until Nakalele point and cross the channel to Molokai, then from Molokai we'll do the midfield transition over PHMK to Lanai where we'd see the shipwrecks before heading back to Molokini crater and PHOG. Needless to say I had done this route about 5 times in FSX so I knew what to expect.
I was very excited because my wife was coming with me and we were on vacations. I was so excited that I forgot to remove the cover from my GoPro lens. My wife thinks it was the most hilarious moment when she heard my reaction on the intercom. I have about 60 minutes of black screen with the great commentaries from the sights by our CFI and 30 minutes of the route to Maui/Molokini
It was a great way of beginning holidays. The service from Maui Aviators was great. My wife couldn't believe I did most of the flying+taxiing so now I have permission to pursue my PPL training. She loved even more the greaser that our CFI did to finish the flight.
I'd let the pictures do the rest of the explanation