ISLAND HISTORY: Kauai helicopter pilot Tom Mishler and the ghost of Aubrey Robinson

ISLAND HISTORY: Kauai helicopter pilot Tom Mishler and the ghost of Aubrey Robinson

During 1993, I was employed by the USDA to do insect surveys on Robinson lands on Kauai and on Niihau. Bruce and Keith Robinson, the owners of Niihau, were compensated and had given their approval, and Robinson’s first helicopter pilot, Tom Mishler, who the Robinsons had hired in 1987, would fly me in the Robinson helicopter to various sites on Robinson lands — 50 on Kauai, weekly, and 10 on Niihau, monthly — where Mishler would land the helicop…