Leg The Second, With Photos!

The second leg was a short hop from Nadi International to Pago Pago International in American Samoa. Just getting in position for the next leg, really. Fligh path was 720 nautical miles, but because of the silly vectoring, it worked out to about 800, cruising at 280kts at FL330. This time, I flew using jetways. The route was almost a straight shot. Pushed back from the gate at 2:20pm, was #2 for departure. Nadi has a turnaround at the other end of runway 2, so had to wait for the traffic to taxi out & take off before taxiing into position. Control tower handed off to Nadi departure, then to Nadi center, which controlled the remainder of the flight. Started descent into Pago at 100 nautical miles out, and was given a visual approach to runway 5. Vectors put me a bit to the left of the runway, and I finally put it down a bit off to the left of the stripe. Ewps. Not my best landing ever. Pulled up on the tarmac at 7:30pm- time zone change and crossed the date line, so it was 7:30 pm the previous day.

Taxiing Out at Nadi


On Approach at Pago Pago Int'l


On the tarmac


Pago Pago International