NZFF

VH-FVM from Brisbane on Monday and VH-TGG from Sydney today

Nice Terry

I heard from a couple of sources Nelson is a procedural airport (No radar until at or above 9,500ft) due to terrain to the east and south and the tower there tells aircraft to report positions, altitude and their intentions with increased separation requirements, more than average radar airports such as Auckland, Wellington, Woodbourne (Wellington TMA overlays and is covered by SSR).

Anyway glad to see ya still in action.

Nice work DashCap
Are those ATR's going into storage with the others ?

What time was that? I was doing some training in a Squirrel there today

Good captures. I wonder why the Virgin ATR are being stored in New Zealand ?

zk2704 wrote:Nice Terry

I heard from a couple of sources Nelson is a procedural airport (No radar until at or above 9,500ft) due to terrain to the east and south and the tower there tells aircraft to report positions, altitude and their intentions with increased separation requirements, more than average radar airports such as Auckland, Wellington, Woodbourne (Wellington TMA overlays and is covered by SSR).

Anyway glad to see ya still in action.

Yep, and it's very frustrating there as a pilot especially when there's bad weather in the vicinity.

Hopefully when they get the new SID's and STAR's it makes it easier.

Aviator 1 wrote:Good captures. I wonder why the Virgin ATR are being stored in New Zealand ?

Rumors are that the ones being stored here have corrosion issues and are high cycles so making them less desirable that others on the market. But that's only crew room rumors.

chopper_nut wrote:What time was that? I was doing some training in a Squirrel there today

TGG landed at 1135

Ah yep, I was floating around Motueka at that time

Wonderful shots Dash,you have got an eye for it.

hoki1185 wrote:Wonderful shots Dash,you have got an eye for it.

Thanks Hoki!