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Methinks it was TAF - no reason for Robert to bring the Dove up here? Was quite nice - walking back to my room after grabbing a PepsiTM, "hang on that sounds interesting" spent the next 15min outside oohing and aahing. Thanks Graham - you made my Sunday!

QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Apr 20 2008, 03:48 PM) in this case, a PA18. Uh oh, there's the problem! :P But seriously, thanks for the heads up. I totally wouldn't have seen it

Another option for finding when aircraft are scheduled to arrive would be OAG. For Rarotonga, go to this page. Comes up with useful info. Only drawback is you need to enter in an airport/city code. You'll see how it works if you go there. :) Alex

QUOTE (Charl @ Apr 20 2008, 02:40 PM) RAAF has new secret weapon... :ph43r: laser powered? RAAF has a new secret weapon... birds. Seriously though, that is some nice looking damage. Cheers Anthony

QUOTE (benwynn @ Apr 19 2008, 10:05 PM) interesting idea VAC, how would you get rich without money to play the stock market- You cant really "play" without having alot of money.. I have my ways :D How can you expect me to have it perfectly planned out? I"m 16, I don't care :lol:

Bugger Tom, that would have been a good way to spend a Friday night lol! If you ever get the chance again, don't hesitate to take plenty of pics and vids for us ;)

Sure does, I had about four layers on and I was still cold.

Standing out back of work saw her in and out of the clouds, thought "heck he's a bit far out from the field to be so low" :P ! Had no idea, nice pleasant surprise! I remember back at high school one of the old boys took an Orion nice and low over the school...........very impressive!

This month is turning out to be very grim- lots of deaths being reported in the news in the last few days. RIP

Northwest has a pretty big Base in NRT, and they fly to SIN etc- Mabye we will see some more flights there?

Some times I wonder what it would be like to fly one of those old warbirds. Harvard is a great plane!!

Thank Guys, I will give him a ring for advice. Much apprieciated Cheers Derek

QUOTE (benwynn @ Apr 9 2008, 08:53 PM) Yup thats right- Thats why I said some Routes- I find it hard to beleive they would fill a Q200 on there low capacity routes, but easily from AKL/WLG-BHE etc. RLK and Eagle have nothing to do with each other really, so it doesnt make a difference for maintenance etc. No Idea what Eagle will fly, theres nothing Brand New, or still in production, on the market for them :( No they don't at this stage, but should Eagle get the Q200, it largely removes needs for operating two wholly owned subsidiaries on two AOCs, so in that case they might have...

I think it may have come to Christchurch early this morning, about 2am. I heard a different engine noise and had a look outside, only saw the nav lights, looked pretty big.

Personally, I still think it's too close to Auckland. I would have thought that the majority of freight companies would still end up delivering their goods to Auckland. The point being, a lot of the flights we see as carrying passengers actually carry a lot of freight. Freight keeps long haul services alive, in some cases. Auckland is always going to have these long haul flights with freight components to them. In other words, there's already regular carriage of freight heading away from this part of the island/country. The difference in travel distance by road from anywhere to...

Awesome, thanks guys :) Cheers Gary

Hi Guys Here is another story on the Pacific Blue website Interesting where the original story got that they were going to be flying to Invercargill from. Still great for Dunedin :thumbup: Cheers Daniel

The Ejet has had a big head start. The MRJ is probably too late to replace Air NZ ATRs - I'm picking that they will replace them with Q400s. Theres also the Sukhoi regional jet and then there is the Bombardier CJet (although thats a bit bigger at 100 or so seats) and the CRJ900 and then the Chinese also want to build one........... me thinks the market will get too crowded and some wil drop out just as it did with the smaller regional jets.

Yes there have been a few prominent racing drivers involved in air accidents in recent years - Colin McRae of course last year, a whole NASCAR team in a King Air crash in the US a few years ago, and David Coulthard was lucky to survive a Learjet crash in France some years ago which killed the pilots. I suppose they do travel by air very regularly though.

Its just Airwork