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Now armed with a new camera ... current time ... might try and crawl out to the airport over the next few days and shoot the hell outta everything .

The aircraft in the two pictures you asked about is a Yak-50. TAA is a 152 Aerobat, I've flown it a few times at the RNZAC competitions.

Great catch Ham ...shame i missed it , i was in the area close to the time.

It would seem the 2 motor Fokker will be putting in an appearance. I guess it fits under "Classic"

Great idea , and very well done. Had to laugh at one of the comments further down that page "For god's sake don't try to fly the thing...this is the only safe use of a Russian aircraft !!! A bit harsh i think .... now , the A380 would make a great hotel .

I was on an annual refresher course over the weekend and we had our new Manager Flight Operations come and have a chat. He was previously with CAA and prior to that CTC and made one interesting comment. Apparently there has been a large reduction in the number of people applying for pilot courses, the exact reason why isn't known but I guess we could speculate. I would like to think that the people getting into it now are the people who are genuinely interested in flying as a career.

Hm. With Jetstar, and other budget airlines, you pay far less precisely BECAUSE they are rigid in their enforcement of these rules. Booking any flight with them is a calculated risk. Granted, the incident with the shark was cold-hearted but not really the airline's fault.

Ive done probably around 100 hours in various models of R44s. The one thing I will say is that they are probably the best machine in that category for taking tourists around but they arnt a working helicopter. What I mean with that is that they are not designed to have a load underneath them, they are not designed to have spray gear mounted to them etc. It is a reality of the industry that this sort of thing goes on and with a good operator, they can be operated safely on aerial work operations but they arnt as robust as a JR.

Yea what he said (Ben Wynn) /whathesaid.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :hesaid: border= 0 alt= whathesaid.gif /> o.k

Well that's true ... but beer in mind /biggrin.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :D border= 0 alt= biggrin.gif /> ... Sir Tim did not do such a good job at times /laugh.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :lol: border= 0 alt= laugh.gif />

FACT A bit about DME.... DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) Operates in the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) band 1041-1108 MHz (remember its around 1 GHz) **OPERATING RANGE = line of sight; 1,23 x (sq. root Transponder height + sq. root Receiver height) **ACCURACY (modern DME's) = ICAO recommends accuracy of less than the sum of 0.25NM plus 1.25% of the distance measured. interrogation 1041-1045 MHz response 978 - 1108 MHz DME is frequency paired with VOR and ILS. DME has X and Y channels (used for military operations) The difference between X and Y signals is the response-frequency of the...

/laugh.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :lol: border= 0 alt= laugh.gif /> No wonder your a HappyTraveller /tongue.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :P border= 0 alt= tongue.gif /> that retro music .. cripes i was back in the 70s ... as the boardroom problems , obviously a real cockup ! /rolleyes.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :rolleyes: border= 0 alt= rolleyes.gif />

Lucky enough to see it many times and even during its rebuild at Christchurch airport engineering base in the 90s .. least i have an owners manual /biggrin.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :D border= 0 alt= biggrin.gif />

QUOTE (wildmanfiveone @ Feb 15 2013,3:11 PM) Damn if i hadnt just come home this afternoon from camp i would probably go have a look, still might see it in the air though HLM2 I think is ZK-IAL. HLM1 is ZK-ISJ and HLM3 is ZK-IKM.

Hey Guys Just wondering if anyone has an A1 chart, North Island as a whole that they don't need anymore?