Fly Maui

There’s something we all can agree on: flight training is expensive! On this episode we’ll share some tips how to save money before, during and after your flight training. We’ll look at decisions such as: Should I wait until I have the money saved, or pay as I go? What about accelerated training? How can flying more often save me money? We’ve witnessed learners (including ourselves) make wise decisions that saved money along the way, and also approaches that we wish we’d done differently.

The weather is perfect every day in paradise, right? You can find awesome weather almost daily somewhere around the island, but there are also some unique challenges to flying in tropical weather. Strong trade winds, wind shear, mountain wave turbulence, and quick-developing low visibility are some of the things you have to consider before departing on a flight. On this episode we’ll share about some of weather factors that need considered even in one of the most beautiful places to fly in the world.

What should you expect when you book a flight lesson with Fly Maui? We have visiting pilots call and email us daily asking about a vacation flying lesson or aircraft checkout and rental. If you’re a pilot vacationing in Hawaii, we’d love to have you fly with us! On this episode we’ll break down the details and describe some of the epic scenery you can witness while doing steep turns. Fly with aloha!

Fly Maui flight instructors Cole Hambright and Preston Schoewe join us to talk about their journeys to becoming CFIs. They trained together in Arizona, finished their ratings at a popular Part 141 aviation school, then took a step of faith, packed up and moved to Maui with a couple of suitcases. Now with a few months of instruction under their belts, they share with us the challenges and rewards of flying and instructing in Maui.

We are happy to be back on the Fly Maui podcast after nearly a year break! One of the questions we get a lot is, “How long did it take you to fly your planes over to Maui?” Well, we aren’t great swimmers and we’re scared of sharks, so flying a Cessna 172 from California to Maui isn’t an option. The Fly Maui flight school recently purchased a Cessna 172 for the flight line, and on this episode we’ll cover the ins-and-outs of shipping an aircraft across the Pacific Ocean.

We’ve had an interesting month with the arrival of the newly overhauled engine for one of our flight school airplanes. After the install process it was time to begin the break in. We’ll share about that process & how it’s related to Leslie’s biggest scare while flying so far. It's also the last episode we’ll be sharing on the Fly Maui podcast feed. We are grateful to all of our listeners and hope you’ll hop over to The Aloha 360 podcast where we’ll continue sharing about our aviation adventure

Aloha! Since we fly two Cessna 172s here in Maui and manage the flights and maintenance work on both aircraft, we constantly have questions how to best maintain our aircraft. A few weeks ago, our friend, AP/IA/CFI and Airplane Owner Maintenance Podcast host Dean Showalter invited us on his podcast to ask him all the questions we had about the Cessna 172. Dean had some great answers and shared some valuable wisdom from his years of experience. We had to share it with our listeners as well!

Aloha! On this episode we’re sharing some personal stories of struggles we’ve faced over the last few months… and it’s not just dealing with the pandemic and shutdown. We all experience setbacks in life: in our jobs, aviation, family and other relationships. You can move forward from setbacks, failures and mistakes, big or small. Your attitude and willingness to learn from these experiences will define your long term health and success.

From the first week of training, student pilots are thrown into a crazy new world of pilot speak. Aside from radio communication itself, there’s a big world of aviation acronyms and mnemonics to learn. It can be daunting at first, but the pilot soon learns that these become helpful flows in flight and memory aids when studying for the next checkride or flight review. On this episode, we’re walking through a big list of common aviation acronyms… welcome to our study session!