Home  Gallery index  Publications - Associated website - Contact  On the web 

 
 
 
The planning


The planning

After being on the wish list for several years after seeing pictures and hearing stories about it ,we finally decided to go to Taiwan.
The main reason for our visit was the diversity of aircraft types in use in a combination of American ,French and locally build types and the fact that the distances on the island are short.

The plan was to go a full week to Taiwan which would give us all the time we needed to do a full circle around the island. And so we made a short list of the basis we wanted to visit and which would be a bonus so we could see as many types as possible ,
some type’s like the local build and the Mirage 2000 where a must.


On other thing that became obvious during the planning is that the whole country is filled with wrecks & relics and trying to visit them all was more than a week’s work alone! With the daylight being short in the period of our visit we opted to concentrate on the operational flying in the first place and if the time would allow do some W&R .

In the end we decided to our way from Taipei either down the west coast and up the east coast or the other way around depending on the weather so we could see the RF-5 at Hualien. The position of Hualien AFB in the top left corner of the island put it a long way away from the other bases on the Island.

This via a comprehensive distance and travel time list including the possible W&R on the way concentrating on the F-104 Starfighters.

But then came the word about a possible last F-4 Phantom show in Japan at Hyakuri and the decision was made to spend the first two days in Japan instead of Taiwan. This changed our planning again for the Taiwan part of the trip and we opted to start at the west side of the island as Hualien AFB would be to for from Taipei on the first day. So we might have to miss-out on the RF-5's at Hualien AFB during this trip.

 

As most bases are in a short distance of each other we made de decision to do as much bases possible in the first few day which would give us the possibility to be flexible in the end of the week.

So arrangement where made for the flights and rental cars and a trip was there!

One thing to do one trips to Japan and Taiwan is rent a Wifi router, these are not expensive and the coverage is excellent.



 
 

Copyright Karo_aviation.nl | All right reserved 2003-2015| Design by Ronald de Roij