The airplane may skip, especially if it has folding feet, and you'll need to keep flying to the bitter end to ensure any subsequent contact is in the right attitude. The AIM has some good poop on the subject of ditching, and it's well worthwhile rereading it, but the most complete info is in the National Search And Rescue Manual. I wrote last month about the new policy at Century Aviation at Kahului to restrict access to the FBO to the select few that arrive in big corporate iron. I was perhaps too understanding in my tone. Fact is, everyone I've talked to, without exception, who flies into OGG and uses the southeast ramp, resents being good enough to buy gas yet not good enough to use the facility.
Several pilots are flight planning to avoid having to refuel in Maui, just for that reason.
It seems that the solution would lie in finding out who was trashing the place, and dealing with them, rather than take it out on all the rest of us. Stay tuned for the opportunity to race, right here in Paradise. June is a critical month for Flight 2000 as Congress wrestles with the budget. Due to the high cost of implementing the test program, there is considerable pressure to omit Hawai'i from the test, and just do Alaska and Oakland. If you recall, the original concept was to equip all commercial operators in Alaska, virtually all aircraft in Hawai'i, and select operators at some other Mainland location.