Flight 3

We had company over last night and i got to enjoy some of the local food. I think back home they'd call it sushi? But over here they call it PuPu ..which is another name for aur dourves or appetizer.

It was raw Ahi (a fish) and smoked Marlin. With some other raw fish concoction wrapped in a jungle leaf. That actually wasnt bad. Best way to describe its taste and look would be to imagine a seafood salsa. heh

I did fly yesterday, for an hour. The Instrument training over here is intense. We simulate IFR conditions with me wearing a hood that limits my visibility to just the instruments. To simulate being in clouds or real IFR (or IMC) conditions where visibility is nearly nothing.

But for training we HAVE to fly VFR (visual flight rules) or where we can see at least 3 miles and the clouds are at least 1000 ft above the ground. So like i said, we pretend we're flying in IFR conditions by making me wear this visor. Though it does its job at straining my brain you can still see out the bubble enough for your brain to figure out a horizon, so you don't get same feeling as you would if you were in a cloud, white out, zero visibility.

Right now the VOG is reallly bad. Visibility today was 9 miles, at ground level. But the clouds were lingering at 1900ft. The closer you get to the clouds the hazier it gets, the humidity is intense right now as well. All of the instrument training is performed over open water and today we were about 10 miles off coast.. off the south shore of the island. The conditions were as close to IFR as you can get without it actually be declared IFR conditons. Visibility was easily around 3 miles or less. And over openwater you only see blue oblivion so I REALLY rely almost entirely on the istruments to fly the aircraft.

It really forces you to work hard. It's intense.

Hopefully when the sun comes out soon I'll get up and tour the island and do some mountaineous training and off-airport stuff. Go get a first-rate aerial tour, the one the tourists dont get cuz they're not pilots =p

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I was going to go to Maui for 3 days to visit Shaylea next week but Hawaiian Airlines just hiked up their fucking rates today an insane amount. Coach was $73 from Kauai to Maui then it was 85 and now its 134!!! ... the highest first class rate ive seen till today was $109 LOL .. isnt that stupid?

sorry Shaylea, have fun!