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Nice Flying

Bit odd that they don't know what's wrong, yet they're planning to fly it out. Hope it doesn't choke up again.

Seems like a pretty good effort under the conditions - hopefully the won't have any problems when they go to fly it back though!

INSIDE SCOOP: It ran out of fuel *DOH*. The Dipstick isn't reading correctly so they weren't to blame. I was just down at Welly aero club. Helped to pre-flight their Nanchang so that it can go over to Omaka (Right now in fact). They're going to make new dipsticks for both as they have exact replicas

I would still call that pilot error ! ... if i was to run machinery without double checking , something giving a false reading , i shut it down , the tanks were obviously near empty ,but the 'old she ll be jake' caught em out !

No something severely wrong with the dipsticks and the fuel tanks themselves. I think I heard someone say that more fuel get forced into the part of the tank that you dip than there really is overall. Like a hydraulic effect if there is air caught above the fuel in one half of the tank.

At least they're both getting sorted out.

Ha Ha Cheers

Cool, there's a video here of the takeoff: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3573852/Wa...-airborne-again