NZFF

Not 5 mins ago I heard an odd sound, turned and looked out the window, and if I'm not mistaken just caught a BAE 146 circling Renwick to land at Woodbourne. Another maint job for Safe Air perhaps??

Air Nationals 146?

Naki wrote:

QUOTE (Naki @ Oct 9 2009, 09:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Air Nationals 146?

Could not tell - its was just getting dark and only caught enough glimpse to see it was drooped high wing 4 engines

It Was Air Nationals plane ZK-ECO, I saw in landing at WB tonight.

Thanks for confirming that Gavin. On another note have you heard anything about a couple of Aussie Blackhawks and a Chinook coming over later this year? Mountain flying from NZWB I believe.

I did hear about that, latest is that its been cancelled.
They were going to be here on October 10 but not anymore.

Hopefully it does happen at some point

Was going to happen last year too, but got canned. Normally they go to PNG but last year, they were not given permission for some reason. Later they were given access so did go and we missed out.

they were looking at bringing over a couple of Kiowa's as well. They were originally going to flying into Ohakea then across to woody then into Dipflat for some mountain flying. But the cook strait scared the kiowa pilots (and the Aussies dont have immersion suits for cold water protection), so they were planning to fly into CHCH then fly up to Dipflat.
I think it was going to be called ANZAC ROTOR, but as Gavin has said its been cancelled for the year.

Trev