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Fun flight on Hawaii

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Thought I share some of my FS experiences here.Excuse me if I'm not familiar with Hawaii, I have no maps available at the moment, but I do the best I can.Yesterday, I did a flight starting from the northmost airstrip of the island which is south of the one where the Hana airstrip is located, with Hana as destination. The weather was generated with Wetter2004. I choose the Vickers Viking, and pure VFR. After tekeoff and a left turn, I climbed to about 5000 ft with approx. 180 kts heading towards Hana. It's pretty difficult to see this airport, so I cheated one time by switching to spot view to see if I missed the airport already. I was exactly over-flying it when I did this, so it was time to descend. I dived with idle at about 1000 ft/min, and at the same time started a shallow right turn. This way I managed to descend to the right altitude, blowing off speed to about 135 kts, and finally align with the runway. All in pure visual conditions. I did no calculation, neither for height loss nor for speed. In the end, I was on finals with gear down and full flaps at about 110 kts. Touchdown was pretty good, breaking a little adventure (the nose of this plane drops significantly during breaking, so I always need to stutter-breake to stop this aircraft).I was somehow puzzled how relatively easy the whole trip was. I did not a single course correction, nor was my approach the hunt-for-the-centerline-and-get-the-proper-altitude nervous type, it was indeed very smooth, I almost did no correction during centerline alignment. And, altitude and speed management were simply said a dream: no power-dive, no phases where I needed to hold the altitude and add additional power. In one word: from start to finish, the flight was smooth and a continuous motion, at no time I needed to fiddle with throttles or pitch.That's what makes me wonder. I'm simply perplex how it was possible for me to do this flight by only "looking out of the windows". It's almost incredible for me how smooth in general the whole flight was, especially the landing: I'm used to have much more troubles even on ILS approaches (manually flown, of course). Given the fat that I used no calculation nor any "advanced" instrument like a GPS, I'm content about what I was able to do.Just to entertain you.Andreas

Andreas, LOWW

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