First of all I want to say sorry to all 56k modem-users. I know my tour-reports include lots of shots and are therefore horrible to load ! SORRY :-roll
Hallo,
and welcome to Leg Nr.37 of my -Pacifc Rim of Fire Tour-. This final flight guided me from Lihue over 172 km (93 nm) above the Kauai Channel to the capital of the US federal-state of Hawaii, to Honolulu, situated on the island of Oahu. The most populated island (876.156 inhabitants) with the major airport, business and financial center and the educational heart of the state. Oahu (Pearl Harbor) is the military command center of the Pacific. It is 64 km (40 miles) long, 42 km (26 miles) wide and covers an area of 1555 km². Hawaii - the 50th federal state of the United States of America --> First settled by Polynesians sailing from other Pacific islands between A.D. 300 and 600, Hawaii was visited in 1778 by British captain James Cook, who called the group the Sandwich Islands. Hawaii was a native kingdom throughout most of the 19th century, when the expansion of the sugar industry (pineapple came after 1898) meant increasing U.S. business and political involvement. In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani was deposed, and a year later the Republic of Hawaii was established with Sanford B. Dole as president. Following annexation (1898), Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900. The Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was directly responsible for U.S. entry into World War II. Hawaii, 3835 km (2397 miles) west-southwest of San Francisco, is a 2436 km (1523 mile) chain of islets and eight main islands — Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, other than Midway, are administratively part of Hawaii. The temperature is mild, and cane sugar, pineapple, and flowers and nursery products are the chief products. Hawaii also grows coffee beans, bananas, and macadamia nuts. The tourist business is Hawaii's largest source of outside income. Hawaii's highest peak is Mauna Kea 4311 m (13,796 ft). Mauna Loa 4274 m (13,679 ft) is the largest volcanic mountain in the world by volume. Among the major points of interest are Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Hawaii), Haleakala National Park (Maui), Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (Hawaii), Polynesian Cultural Center (Oahu), the USS Arizona and USS Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor, The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Oahu), and Iolani Palace (the only royal palace in the U.S.), Bishop Museum, and Waikiki Beach (all in Honolulu). Hawaii, including the main islands + 120 smaller islands covers a total area of 16.637 km² and has a population of 1.244.898 inhabitants. The three largest cities on the Hawaiian Islands are Honolulu (371.657 inhabitants), Hilo (40.759) and Kailua (36.513). :) :9 I have not included general information about the United States because I want to provide these during my -Trans America Rally- !
The Battle of Pearl Harbour - 7th December 1941:
The 7th December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant. Eighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable. By late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well. The U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya. These great Japanese successes, achieved without prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged the previously divided American people into a level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May, Japan's far-reaching offensives proceeded untroubled by fruitful opposition. American and Allied morale suffered accordingly. Under normal political circumstances, an accomodation might have been considered. However, the memory of the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor fueled a determination to fight on. Once the Battle of Midway in early June 1942 had eliminated much of Japan's striking power, that same memory stoked a relentless war to reverse her conquests and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace. Very interesting facts ! :)
Overall Views of the Pearl Harbor Attack:
When the first Japanese attack wave arrived over Pearl Harbor seven of their primary targets, the U.S. battleships, were moored along "Battleship Row", on the eastern side of Ford Island. Another battleship was in drydock in the nearby Navy Yard. Other moorings which the Japanese believed might include battleships, or the equally important aircraft carriers, were at the Navy Yard's 1010 Dock and along Ford Island's western side. The Japanese initially hit airfields, including that on Ford Island. Dive bombers attacked there at about 7:55 AM, destroying many aircraft, among them PBY patrol planes at the island's southern tip. This attack prompted the dispatch of the famous message "Air raid, Pearl Harbor -- this is no drill", the outside World's first indication that war had come to the Pacific. Within a few moments, torpedo planes attacked from east and west, with one of the latter torpedoing the USS Helena at 1010 dock. Others, from the same direction, hit USS Utah and USS Raleigh, off the western side of Ford Island. The great majority of the torpedo planes came in from the east, flying up the waterway between Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and the Submarine Base to hit the ships on that side of Ford Island. They put two "fish" into USS California, at the southern end of the row. At the northern end, another struck USS Nevada. The outboard ships in the center of "Battleship Row", USS Oklahoma and West Virginia, each had their port sides torn open by many torpedoes. As the torpedo planes were completing their work, horizontal bombers swept up "Battleship Row", dropping armor-piercing bombs. Several ships were hit. One received a death blow, as USS Arizona blew up with a tremendous explosion. Planes of the second attack wave revisited some of the ships already hit, and also spread destruction in the Navy Yard, where they bombed the drydocked battleship Pennsylvania and three destroyers. Other dive bombers went after the Nevada, which had left her berth and was trying to get to sea. Very heavy anti-aircraft gunfire greeted these aircraft, whose losses were significantly greater than those of the first attack wave. The raiders had no opportunity to hit American aircraft carriers, all of which were at sea, and did not target fuel storage, most cruisers and destroyers, submarines and most maintenance facilities. However, in just under two hours they had wrecked the U.S. Pacific Fleet's battleship force, ensuring that it would not interfere with Japan's plans for conquest. Again some interesting facts ! :-eek
! I HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY !
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Legs_1-36: (actual status = 23.01.2004)
Leg Nr. 01 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=30703&forum=DCForumID8|Honolulu - Kailua-Kona]
Leg Nr. 02 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=30903&forum=DCForumID8|Kailua-Kona - Johnston Atoll]
Leg Nr. 03 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=30957&forum=DCForumID8|Johnston Atoll - London]
Leg Nr. 04 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=31052&forum=DCForumID8|London - Anaho]
Leg Nr. 05 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=31265&forum=DCForumID8|Anaho - Rikitea]
Leg Nr. 06 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=31418&forum=DCForumID8|Rikitea - Mururoa]
Leg Nr. 07 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=31530&forum=DCForumID8|Mururoa - Moerai]
Leg Nr. 08 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=31579&forum=DCForumID8|Moerai - Otepa]
Leg Nr. 09 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=31664&forum=DCForumID8|Otepa - Avatoru]
Leg Nr. 10 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=31927&forum=DCForumID8|Avatoru - Vaitape - Papeete]
Leg Nr. 11 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=32082&forum=DCForumID8|Papeete - Avarua]
Leg Nr. 12 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=32250&forum=DCForumID8|Avarua - Alofi]
Leg Nr. 13 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=32420&forum=DCForumID8|Alofi - Pago Pago]
Leg Nr. 14 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=32840&forum=DCForumID8|Pago Pago - Nuku'alofa]
Leg Nr. 15 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=32877&forum=DCForumID8|Nuku'alofa - Mata-utu]
Leg Nr. 16 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=32976&forum=DCForumID8|Mata-utu - Funafuti]
Leg Nr. 17 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33060&forum=DCForumID8|Funafuti - Nadi]
Leg Nr. 18 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33100&forum=DCForumID8|Nadi - Port Vila]
Leg Nr. 19 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33177&forum=DCForumID8|Port Vila - Auckland]
Leg Nr. 20 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33447&forum=DCForumID8|Auckland - Queenstown]
Leg Nr. 21 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33538&forum=DCForumID8|Queenstown - Hobart]
Leg Nr. 22 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33651&forum=DCForumID8|Hobart - Sydney]
Leg Nr. 23 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33807&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Sydney - Hamilton Island]
Leg Nr. 24 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=34095&forum=DCForumID8|Hamilton Island - Nouméa]
Leg Nr. 25 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=35065&forum=DCForumID8|Nouméa - Honiara]
Leg Nr. 26 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=35466&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Honiara - Port Moresby]
Leg Nr. 27 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=35586&forum=DCForumID8|Port Moresby - Jayapura]
Leg Nr. 28 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=35787&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Jayapura - Davao]
Leg Nr. 29 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=35918&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Davao - Taipei]
Leg Nr. 30 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=36137&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Taipei - Iwojima]
Leg Nr. 31 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=36259&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Iwojima - Agana]
Leg Nr. 32 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=36353&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Agana - Palikir]
Leg Nr. 33 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=36509&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Palikir - Majuro]
Leg Nr. 34 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=36598&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Majuro - Wake Island]
Leg Nr. 35 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=36746&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Wake Island - Midway Atoll]
Leg Nr. 36 - [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=36843&forum=DCForumID8&omm=0|Midway Atoll - Lihue]
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Leg Nr.37:
Flight Plan:
Origin: PHLI (Lihue Airport/Lihue/United States) at 17:48 LT
Destination: PHNL (Honolulu Intl. Airport/Honolulu/United States) at 18:27 LT
Traveltime: 0 hour(s) 39 minutes
Flightplan distance: 95.3 nm
Flight level: 5000 ft
Fuel consumption: 23 gal
Flight route
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Going through the last take-off preperations at Lihue Airport in late afteroon ...
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... have completed all my instrument checks --> engine-startup ...
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... passing the terminal-building and a parked MD-82 (not sure :-hmmm) of Hawaiian Airlines while taxing to Rwy. 3 ...
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... holding short and waiting for further ATC-instructions ... :)
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... lined up ...
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... cleared for take-off --> speeding up --> lift off some minutes before 6 p.m. local time ... :9
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... "gear up" --> climbout (I love this cloud-layer) ... :9
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... right turn after depature (the Hawaiian mesh of FS Genesis is amazing but not perfect) ... ;) :9 :-lol
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... captured these shots during my climb between two cloud-layers (I love it) ... :9 :)
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... cruising above the 118 km (74 miles) wide Kauai Channel at 5000 ft ...
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... reaching the island of Oahu. Passing Kaena Point to the right ... :9
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... diving through the clouds - heavy rain ... :-eek :)
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... visibilty not very good but still acceptable --> approaching Rwy. 8L at Honolulu Intl. Airport --> gear down & flaps full ...
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... runway in view (I like this misty weather) ... ;) :9
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... short final - received the landing clearance ...
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... reached the runway ...
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... and touching down on Rwy. 8L some minutes before 6:30 p.m. local time ...
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... had to leave the runway very fast because otherwise I would have blocked the following approach-traffic ...
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... taxing to my assigned parking-position at the general-aviation area (the Honolulu skyline in the background) ... :9 :)
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... crossing Rwy. 4R/22L ...
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... have parked my Cessna C421 "Golden Eagle" ...
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... engine-shutdown --> "opening the door" ...
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... a last shot of this breathtaking aircraft & the Honolulu skyline with Waikiki Beach in front !:9 :D By the way the flight was very quiet because Carlos has met a nice Hawaiin girl on Kauai and wanted to stay there a little bit longer. I really hope for this girl that she will survive Carlos's peculiarities. ;) :-lol
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Flight summary: Spectacular flight ! :) Very nice weather-situation on my final leg. ;) I noticed some thick cloud-layers and heavy rain during my approach at Honolulu Intl. Airport. I was able to land safely on Rwy. 8L ... :D The views on the island of Oahu were breathtaking ! :9
NEWS: Upload of the Final Statistic thread probably tomorrow in the afternoon or on sunday. (Exact information will follow later)
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