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1968: Fiji Airways, from Fiji into the South Pacific

A Michel Lagneau historic route presented as a clear cockpit briefing, ready to help you prepare the simulator, follow each stopover and enjoy the journey.

Period1968AuthorMichel LagneauReading3 min
11Waypoints~ 10 563 kmDistance2Segments

Interactive route, leg by leg, with animated playback.

Real route map

Approximate track based on the article waypoints and available aeronautical coordinates.

01Fiji archipelago02South Pacific extension
Coordinates: OurAirports + historical points
Pre-flight briefing

Fiji Airways, from Fiji into the South Pacific

01

Understand the mission

Start with the historic context: it sets the atmosphere, aircraft choice and overall logic of the journey.

02

Prepare the simulator

Check scenery, recommended aircraft, fuel and weather before launching the first leg.

03

Follow the legs

Use the airport codes, flying times and route notes to build your navigation leg by leg.

04

Enjoy the journey

Let the route shape the experience: adjust lighting, document waypoints and take time to rediscover the story.

Historic flight plan

Michel Lagneau route notebook

Settle into the cockpit, prepare your aircraft and follow the journey as a proper historic crossing.

Michel Lagneau

Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Samoa

The airline began in 1947 as Katafaga Estates Limited under Harold Charles Gatty. It became Fiji Airways in 1951, then Air Pacific thirty years later.

This plan starts with Fijian services, then expands across several South Pacific archipelagos. A Lockheed Vega is suggested as a tribute to Harold Gatty, Wiley Post’s navigator on the 1931 round-the-world flight, but any long-range touring aircraft can work.

Period1968
AirlineFiji Airways
Suggested aircraftLockheed Vega or long-range touring aircraft
NavigationGPS with VOR/DME and ADF/NDB

Preparing for the Pacific

  • The local Suva - Nadi services are short and perfect for warming up.
  • The Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Samoa sectors are far more oceanic: fuel and weather matter.
  • This plan is best flown as a large archipelago-to-archipelago navigation.

Suggested route

Domestic Fiji

This chapter structures the Domestic Fiji segment with regular legs and distances to monitor in the navigation block.

NFNA → NFFN → NFNL → NFNM

Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati

This chapter structures the Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati segment with regular legs and distances to monitor in the navigation block.

NFNA → NFTF → NFFN → NGFU → NGTA

Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Samoa

This chapter structures the Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Samoa segment with regular legs and distances to monitor in the navigation block.

NFNA → NFFN → NVVV → NVSS → AGGH → NSFA

Navigation steps

  1. Domestic FijiSuva / Nausori Intl NFNA → Nadi Intl NFFN → Suva NFNA 66 NM then 66 NM
    Suva NFNA → Savusavu / overfly → Labasa NFNL → Matei NFNM → Savusavu 87 NM, 19 NM, 47 NM then 46 NM
  2. Tonga, Tuvalu and KiribatiSuva / Nausori Intl NFNA → Nukualofa / Fua’amotu Intl NFTF 404 NM
    Nukualofa NFTF → Suva NFNA 404 NM
    Suva NFNA → Nadi NFFN → Funafuti NGFU → Tarawa / Bonriki NGTA 66 NM, 652 NM then 1,270 NM
  3. Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and SamoaSuva NFNA → Nadi NFFN → Port Vila / Bauerfield NVVV 66 NM then 521 NM
    Port Vila NVVV → Santo / Pekoa NVSS → Honiara / Henderson AGGH 146 NM then 556 NM
    Suva NFNA → Apia / Faleolo Intl NSFA → Suva NFNA 600 NM then 600 NM

© Michel Lagneau 2019