NZFF

After carefully dragging Forest Field airfield 86 meters to the north I decided to continue my flight around the south island by a shortish hop to Hanmer Springs airfield.
The weather was a bit iffy, low clouds and rain, but I decided, what the hey!

It did deliver some delightfully atmospheric shots:






There! Safely down. Next stop Kaikoura for a pie. Or some seafood.

Get a pie nalbers...then go into town , to the craypot( cafe) and order the chowder. .fly safe.....great shots

Good thinking Niels, it's funny because I was thinking of doing the same with my A2A cub. I was a little dubious about buying it but have come to love it and so was considering a longer term project like flying around the South Island or maybe even the whole of NZ - maybe I'll see you somewhere on the way and we can stop for a feed of fish and chips!!

scaber wrote:

QUOTE (scaber @ Jan 22 2011, 10:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Good thinking Niels, it's funny because I was thinking of doing the same with my A2A cub. I was a little dubious about buying it but have come to love it and so was considering a longer term project like flying around the South Island or maybe even the whole of NZ - maybe I'll see you somewhere on the way and we can stop for a feed of fish and chips!!

Spounds like a plan. I still have to figure out how to use multiplayer in FSX though. And synchronising my online schedule with pilots in NZ can be just a tad tricky, seeing as I'm 12 hours out of sync with most of you. Does make for fun "realtime" flying though: I can do daylight flights with real time and weather in NZ in my evenings

Jezz Niels , lucky it was'nt a good north wester

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 22 2011, 11:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Jezz Niels , lucky it was'nt a good north wester

Quite.

The Meteo report said winds calm, but I was still being thrown around a fair bit over the tops. And visibility was a bit iffy too, the ceiling was at 2800 ft, which meant in practise I was flying into cloud whisps every time I went over 2000 ft. It kept things interesting, especially since I was trying to limit my use of the GPS to "only when I have no idea where I am", and I was flying from my 20 year old memory of the lay of the land around there. Boy it sure looks different from the air!

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 22 2011, 11:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Jezz Niels , lucky it was'nt a good north wester

You have got to watch those Cub's in a Nor'wester, they tend to take off like a Helicopter. . . Straight up!

I flew a Cub around the South Island while building hours for my CPL back in 2001. Was a a great mission, think I've got some photos somewhere I'll have to scan and upload.
I'd have to dig out an old log book but I think we flew NZFI-NZMK-NZKM (Karamea)-NZWP-NZGM-NZHK-NZOA-NZWF-NZQN-NZLX-NZTU-NZTI-NZHM-NZKI-NZPP-NZFI.

Was a great trip except for being caught in the wind flying down the Lindis Valley. Those be some big hills for a little plane!

I be looking forward to these photos , maybe scan your log book and we could use these for a MP , i may have to bite my lip and get Hedi and A2As Cub .