Hawaiian Hot Lap

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@CristiNeagu

One of the thing it mentioned was that for a little bit of realism you can follow Hawaii’s special VFR rules when flying below 3000ft: When flying eastbound, fly at 500, 1500, 2500ft MSL, and when flying westbound fly at 1000, 2000, 3000ft MSL.

Note that i don’t know if these rules still exist in real life, and I think they were probably simplified to begin with.

You’ve got a good memory from FS9! In New Zealand where I live, we have similar real world cruising level rules. As the country is long and thin and orientated north to south, our rules are northbound IFR flights are at odd intervals eg 5000, 7000, 9000 etc and southbounds are at even intervals eg 6000, 8000, 1000 etc. VFR flights are slotted in between with a +500 margin, so northbound go 5500, 7500, 9500 and southbound go 6500, 8500, 10500. The easy was to remember this is “NOSE +500” for North Odd South Even