Thursday, August 30, 2007

MAU - Maupiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia

Happy Landing!

Maupiti is a lovely island and a beautiful airport to be landing on. The runway of Maupiti is only 956 × 23 meter and one of the shortest in French Polynesia. You can compare it with the runway of FAAA (3420 × 45 meter) witch is 350 % of Maupiti.

- So Happy Landing !

MAU - Maupiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia (PF)

Latitude: 16°25'35"S
Longitude: 152°14'36"W
Runways: 1
Longest: 956 × 23 m





PLEASE, Read the instructions for the Life Jackets before take-off and landing. Check with your fingers, under yours seat, to find the Life Jacket in place.


Safety advice!

Even if you are an expert or semi-professional passenger or as me, flying 5 days a week (or more) and only are interested to survive. – Please READ The Safety Instructions every morning when its time to fly. It’s extra important to read how to use the Life Jackets, when flying in French Polynesia, and I do hope you understand why?

So Please! Read the instructions for the Life Jackets before take-off and check with your fingers, under yours seat, to find the Life Jacket in place.

As a fairly frequent flyer and member of SGU-society, knowing the physical facts for short take-off & landing under normal and poor conditions (windy and raining). I recommend you to tighten the safety belt a little bit extra 60 seconds before take-off & landing. Crashing into water or trying to go down on water is not a soft way to stop flying.

When landing (and Maupit is good as an example) is it important to have enough speed to be airborne and enough frictional resistance and power to be able stop, within a time period of 10 to 15 seconds. Normally is it no problems but you newer knows when the clock is calling for you...

Maupit has a runway with water on both ends and is good as an example. Because it’s bloody wet on both ends of the runway and about 400 meters deep only a few meters out in beautiful waves of the ocean. The reef on the Oceanside is the best place to take a morning swim… If you are “lucky” Crashing and standing in the blue lagoon, be happy!



The reef on the Oceanside


Terminal building of Maupiti








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