Part 91 Hawaii Flight Course - How To Fly A Jet To Hawaii

Welcome to the Part 91 Hawaii Flight Course by Oregon Flight School. My name is Michael Carlini, founder of Oregon Flight School, and I am a part 91 corporate pilot based in Oregon as well as a certificated flight instructor. This is the course that I wish had existed the first time I flew to Hawaii! This course is an overview of topics and procedures one should know as a Part 91 pilot before operating an aircraft between the United States Mainland and Hawaii. This course is a compilation of information gathered through experience flying as well as information researched and studied within primary FAA and ICAO sources on the subject and secondary sources from other experienced pilots and publications. This course is designed to give the first-time oceanic pilot a broad exposure to flying these Hawaii routes. It is a place to begin, so that on the day of the flight, you show up with some idea of what to expect. This course may also be useful as a refresher course if it has been awhile since you have flown these routes.My experiences inspired me to create this course because until now, there was not a resource where all the information relevant to a pilot flying under Part 91 between Hawaii and the Mainland could be found in one spot. Though ICAO documents and FAA Advisory Circulars were out there, neither of these sources gave a play-by-play example of what a Part 91 Hawaii flight looked like start to finish, nor did they filter the relevant information from their thousands of pages. Part 121 and 135 operators had training programs and regulations to provide their pilots plenty of guidance for the trip, but that was no help to the Part 91 pilot who was left to dig around themselves to try to find what they needed to know. Being paired with an experienced oceanic pilot was - and is - essential to making this flight safely, but that isn’t enough. To understand the whole picture, you need to spend time becoming familiar with a number of topics including oceanic airspace pr