Landing on a Remote Island, South Pacific

swisspilot said:
This has been couple months ago, went there to pick up the pilot of that BN2 crashed at the end of the strip....awesome place for surfing btw
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Isn't flying in the pacific the most calm and rewarding kind of flying? Landing on runways like this and Kalaupapa make us lucky we do this.
 
Cessnaflyer said:
Cheap TCAS
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It`s not a TCAS, there is maybe 3-4 planes flying at anytime of the day in the country, most of them VFR the last thing you really need is a TCAS.

The regs say we need 2 ways of staying in touch with ATC, most planes have VHF, HF , on the C206 G1000 we don`t have an HF so we got Spidertracks, most other planes have it too. There is no radar here and if you are not in VHF range, 50 % of the time, and you don`t have an HF to report your position, ATC looks you up with spidertracks.

http://www.spidertracks.com/
 
swisspilot said:
It`s not a TCAS, there is maybe 3-4 planes flying at anytime of the day in the country, most of them VFR the last thing you really need is a TCAS.

The regs say we need 2 ways of staying in touch with ATC, most planes have VHF, HF , on the C206 G1000 we don`t have an HF so we got Spidertracks, most other planes have it too. There is no radar here and if you are not in VHF range, 50 % of the time, and you don`t have an HF to report your position, ATC looks you up with spidertracks.

http://www.spidertracks.com/
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Sooo what the faa is spending billions of dollars to create, test and implement (ads-b) has already been done by spidertracks?
 
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