This is serious, folks. Either get involved or accept what you get. Those of you who fly out of Maui, the Big Island, and Kaua'i all have site-specific issues that need to be addressed. GACH can help, but to do so, we need to work these issues together where it makes sense to do so. There is still a great deal of arbitrariness in the way the rules are interpreted from airport to airport by the managers.
Plans are in the final stretch for the Great Hawaiian Air Race.
With about 50 teams entered, representing 22 states and Australia, it will be the biggest aviation event to hit Hawai'i in a long, long time. The organizational challenges have been monumental, to say the least, but a hard-working core team has done wonders. If the weather holds, expect all 50 aircraft to depart the Reef Runway between 0830 and 0900, at 20-second intervals, on Saturday the 13th, for the first leg to Hana. The finish will be at Ford Island on Sunday the 14th. Somewhere on Lagoon Drive, where 8R is visible.