Flying to the Philippines

2012 is the first time we fly to the Philippines.

A new country to our roster of airport visited .

We are ready for a new one:

Nothing too complicated here

The route will give us a great view of the kinabalu Mountain

Arrival to busy Cebu is a VOR or ILS, with radar vectoring

The only concern might be the weather and we have access to Radar and satellite photo for the route

Here we go.

Louis Alain, first and then N510HW with my captain Nori-san

This leg happen to be the most challenging one so far, after been terminated by the Malaysian control and told radar service terminated...we enter Philippines airspace with no contact, it took 100 nm over water and approaching the waypoint ZAM , that we made contact. No chance for asking direct and getting some shortcut.

Radar was working and we were given a visual to land

Beautiful waters off Cebu

It took 3 hours to get the furl truck across the airport. Our handler had everything under control until some C130 from the US Air Force showed up and kicked us on the other side of the airport where our contract fuel could not deliver

we had to get another fueler and pay the fuel cash at about $ 5.00 a gallon

the 3 Mustang lined up is a great view