My latest venture takes me from the Falkland Islands to Rapa Nui or Easter Island for a charter flight in Oceanic's N162342 - a 767-300, Extended Range series. I had been dreading this flight for the forecast winds where on average 280/60 no matter what FL we chose. This produced a GS of no more than 415 at any point in the flight. The only bright side to this was the fact that we weren't running the a route over the Tasman sea; where I have seen winds normally over 120 kts.FLIGHT INFORMATIONOperator: Privately registered (Oceanic Airlines): N162342 - United StatesAircraft: BOEING 767-300 (H/B763/Q)Origin: EGYP Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands (Malvinas)Destination: SCIP Mataveri Intl, ChileRoute: EGYP KILOR 4872W 4578W 4385W 4090W 3695W 33W00 29W04 OSTRA SCIPRemarks: Operating as Oceanic Airlines Flight No. 815. www.angelsimulations.net / V /Altitude: 38,000 ftSpeed: 420 ktsDeparted: 09-Mar-12 02:08 AMArrived: 09-Mar-12 08:54 AMDistance/Time Traveled: 2710 nm /6:45Enough chatting and time for the shots:Quick start on the military ramp at Mt. Pleasant and then we back taxied for take off:"Engine instruments in the green. Airspeed's alive. 80 knots, V1, Rotate, V2...."We make FL380 in no time as we're only about 70% of capacity on this flight and we take in the beautiful views of Patagonia shortly after reaching cruise:Some beautiful colors on this flight, as the sun takes its time to set on the South Pacific:Most people don't like night flights, but I really do! This is why:On that night over the South Pacific the sky opened up and you could see just about every constellation. It was beautiful!I was hoping to use the Autoland as I hadn't used it a while and the ceiling at SCIP was reading 1500. However, the winds were consistently out of the west the entire flight, even at SCIP. This meant that we couldn't use the ILS on 10 and were stuck with the VOR Z for 28.We broke out around 1700 and the PAPI were visible shortly after. There isn't much more lighting other than REIL's on this end. Here we are on final, as seen from the island:Short final, from the cockpit:Picture perfect landing! Here we are rolling out:At the gate our passengers disembark and we shut her down for a few days rest in Rapa Nui - land of the Moai.Hope you enjoyed my post.

that plane was supposed to crash?! :(