NZFF

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:26 pm**

Palmerston North Fly-in
19 April 2008
2000z - 2300z

Local event time is Sunday 20 April, 08:00 to 11:00

Booking: http://ivao.org.nz/events/#

Charts: http://www.aip.net.nz/NavWalk.aspx?section...almerston+North

ATC positions & Frequencies:
NZZC_O_CTR - 125.10
NZZC_CTR - 125.30
NZPM_TWR - 120.60
NZPM_GND - 121.70
NZZO_CTR - 123.90

Airport Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_No...ational_Airport
http://www.pnairport.co.nz/index.php/

Pilot/ATC Events Award:

ATC: http://www.libbfir.org/moda/atc/index.php?div=NZ
Pilot: http://www.libbfir.org/moda/pawards/index.php?div=NZ

IVAO-NZ: http://nz.ivao.aero/
Contact: nz-ec@ivao.aero

Trivia:

Palmerston North International airport does not have any scheduled international flights at the moment. Air New Zealand / Freedom Air have stopped all international flights as of 30 March. OzJet's planned flights across the Tasman from 31 March failed to get off the ground.

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Very low on ATC numbers at the moment; anyone wanting to do ATC...please email me - nz-mc@ivao.aero

Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2008 4:44 pm**

I hardly ever fly with IVAO anymore but I love checking these threads to see the creative event propotion images. Top marks to whoever designs them :thumbup:

Posted: **Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:09 am**

i will be there as a pilot at least, hope to get a few flights in

Posted: **Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:28 pm**

Nice idea guys, the timing is a bit bizarre though. I mean, if you have it in the evening you have a chance of getting more NZ pilots coming into it, but as it is, it's particularly unattractive (or at least to me...). Maybe you could pass my comment onto Andrew/Jorge?

Thanks for advertising it though. I'd be happy to come along to an evening session if I was free.

Alex

Posted: **Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:48 am**

oops, i am going to have to retract my post about being there, as that time of the morning (0600 LT) i will be just starting work that day, maybe next time!!

Posted: **Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:59 pm**

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I hardly ever fly with IVAO anymore but I love checking these threads to see the creative event propotion images. Top marks to whoever designs them[/quote]
That would be Andrew Petrie, our events co-ordinator

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oops, i am going to have to retract my post about being there, as that time of the morning (0600 LT) i will be just starting work that day, maybe next time!![/quote]
Not a problem, hope to see you next time

Alex wrote:
QUOTE (Alex @ Apr 7 2008, 07:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Nice idea guys, the timing is a bit bizarre though. I mean, if you have it in the evening you have a chance of getting more NZ pilots coming into it, but as it is, it's particularly unattractive (or at least to me...). Maybe you could pass my comment onto Andrew/Jorge?

Alex - sure thing I will pass your comments on, and will bring it up at our next staff meeting

The thing is as you will know, we have tried events in the evening NZ time, and that attracts nothing. Take for instance the Wellington-Melbourne flight a few months back. We held that in the evening, and a grand total of 3 pilots showed up, of which only 2 were from NZ. Last month we held what could be called a 'trial' event at NZDN, which was held in the NZ morning. I don't know how many pilots turned up, but ATC was online for around 4 hours, and there was a lot of traffic, and probably about 4-5 were NZ guys (which is pretty good going in the scheme of things...).

There was a discussion going on about this amongst the controllers at the last event, and the general consensus was that the people providing ATC would much rather get up at say 8/9am and control 20 pilots, than spend 3/4 hours in the evening controlling only 2-3 pilots in that whole time.

I'm thinking that now we are UTC+12 again, starting our morning events at 21z (9am local), and going until midday may be better. I know it's only an hour difference, but more people will be up at 9 than at 8.

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:49 pm

by Alex

True, I'm not up with the play on recent happenings at IVAO. I just know that I'd personally rather fly and control in the afternoon/evening, of course my voice alone would probably not change things, but I feel that other people might think like me.

Anyway, ultimately it's up to you guys how you want to work this out. I remember that these events worked reasonably well in the past (6+ months ago), and we started a wee following as we moved around the place.

Alex

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