How close would Hawaii have to be...

How close would Hawaii have to be for pilots to vacation there in light
airplanes?

Current weather in Hilo: 72F, but a bit cloudy...

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Ben Jackson

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"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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How close would Hawaii have to be for pilots to vacation there in light
airplanes?

Current weather in Hilo: 72F, but a bit cloudy...

PHTO 102153Z 31011KT 10SM BKN045 OVC055 22/14 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP205
T02220144

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Ben Jackson

Geez, Ben, a question like that prompts an answer like this:

Within fuel range, plus reserve.

Are you trolling?

Ben Jackson wrote :
Current weather in Hilo: 72F, but a bit cloudy...

Current weather in Phoenix is almost the same (actually we're at 74F),
plus it's a lot closer (unless you live in Hawaii).
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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Ben Jackson wrote :
Current weather in Hilo: 72F, but a bit cloudy...

Current weather in Phoenix is almost the same (actually we're at 74F),
plus it's a lot closer (unless you live in Hawaii).
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


And -- Phoenix is right on the beach! Trouble is -- the water is a bit
far away!

Current weather in Phoenix is almost the same (actually we're at 74F),
plus it's a lot closer (unless you live in Hawaii).

Yeah, Phoenix starts to look pretty nice about now. (Although we have had
another very nice fall here in Iowa, with temps pushing into the upper 40s
almost every day. That's about to change, I suspect...)

Too bad Phoenix is such a blast furnace from April till October.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Current weather in Phoenix is almost the same (actually we're at 74F),
plus it's a lot closer (unless you live in Hawaii).


Yeah, Phoenix starts to look pretty nice about now. (Although we have had
another very nice fall here in Iowa, with temps pushing into the upper 40s
almost every day. That's about to change, I suspect...)

Too bad Phoenix is such a blast furnace from April till October.

I was in Phoenix with my kids hockey team the first weekend of October.
First time I had been there since the mid 70's when I was a kid on a
family trip. I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody would
live there even in the winter, much less the hotter months. If you
don't golf you have absolutely nothing to do. Give me Florida and a
nice humid 85 on the beach anytime.

I was in Phoenix with my kids hockey team the first weekend of October.
First time I had been there since the mid 70's when I was a kid on a
family trip. I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody would live
there even in the winter, much less the hotter months. If you don't golf
you have absolutely nothing to do. Give me Florida and a nice humid 85 on
the beach anytime.

I was with you until you hit that Florida note. Florida is like a hot, wet,
sticky blanket, with large insects.

I can take it for a week in March, though...

Phoenix, on the other hand, is just about the ugliest city I've ever seen.
Dirty, brown, dusty, barren, with lots of street people and wailing sirens.

But, again, I can take it for a week or two in winter!

;-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

I was in Phoenix with my kids hockey team the first weekend of October.
First time I had been there since the mid 70's when I was a kid on a
family trip. I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody would live
there even in the winter, much less the hotter months. If you don't golf
you have absolutely nothing to do. Give me Florida and a nice humid 85 on
the beach anytime.


I was with you until you hit that Florida note. Florida is like a hot, wet,
sticky blanket, with large insects.

Growing up in Minnesota I know all about flying insects. This is not a
problem along the Florida coasts. But I do pull the Geckos and little
frogs from my folks pool enclosure. I like humidity when I am by the
ocean and Florida is 100% better for the insects than the midwest.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I was in Phoenix with my kids hockey team the first weekend of October.
First time I had been there since the mid 70's when I was a kid on a
family trip. I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody would
live there even in the winter, much less the hotter months. If you don't
golf you have absolutely nothing to do. Give me Florida and a nice humid
85 on the beach anytime.

I was with you until you hit that Florida note. Florida is like a hot,
wet, sticky blanket, with large insects.

I can take it for a week in March, though...

Phoenix, on the other hand, is just about the ugliest city I've ever seen.
Dirty, brown, dusty, barren, with lots of street people and wailing
sirens.

But, again, I can take it for a week or two in winter!

;-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay,

What else would a desert be but brown, dusty and barren? It's precisely
because people don't appreciate it's natural, rugged beauty that we find
ourselves in a water crunch. People should let the desert be a desert and
stop trying to convert it into some lush paradise which it isn't meant to
be.

As for the dirty part...Phoenix is no worse (and certainly a lot better)
than many major cities around the country.

The homeless situation is directly tied to the weather. Makes sense doesn't
it? If you're gonna be sleeping outside, why not go where it's warm? Been
to Seattle lately? I seems to me that there are just as many homeless (if
not more...) in Seattle and they are a lot more aggressive when it comes to
panhandling. I've never felt threatened by anyone on the streets of
downtown Phoenix...but I've had the bejezus scared out of me a couple of
time in Seattle by people rushing up and getting right in my face for spare
change.

Dunno why you think we have an over abundance of sirens. We certainly don't
hear them much down here in the SE part of the valley. Maybe you just have
overly sensitive ears? :O)

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ

Florida? Hell no. In Florida you don't bother drying off after you get
out of the shower cause you'll just get wet again from the humidity. I
like to be able to dry off, thank you. Besides, I'll take 110 dry, in
Arizona before I'll drown in 85 soaking wet in Florida.

-Robert