C-130 Around Rotorua Today

[Daniel]

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[Q300]

Ahh aleast you got pics of your encounter!

http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5756

[Anthony]

Oh very good. I've seen the C-130 at ROT (or rather flying around ROT and the area) a lot, but I've never seen it do a go-around.

The first pic isnt very blurry. Its actually pretty good.

Still doesn't explain the mystery plane (private jet thingy) that was hanging around the other day. It also doesn't explain what a hercules was doing here today.



Cheers
Anthony

[Alex]

Yea, the herc seems to be a regular visitor here...

Was driving out past the nursery (by the whakatane turn-off) on the way home and it was just turning onto the crosswind leg, about the same speed as the car which was sorta cool.

Yea, I heard a funny noise the other day and thought "that definitely doesn't sound like a 737...", maybe it was TBM coming in and out again (has done a couple of times in the past).

Alex

[Naki]

Must of being the same Herc that dropped into Tauranga today - touch & go I think.

TBM = CJ3. My Uncles brother owns it - he doesn't know me but maybe one day I could get a ride in it (yeah right!).

[ardypilot]

I haven't seen a Herc 'in the flesh' since last year's Whenuapai airshow I think.. so I'm very much looking forward to viewing one down at the Tauranga this weekend!

[twinstarda42]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Feb 13 2008, 03:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I haven't seen a Herc 'in the flesh' since last year's Whenuapai airshow I think.. so I'm very much looking forward to viewing one down at the Tauranga this weekend!

the word is No Hercs Participating in Airshows till Ohakea open day, wanaka as their is not enough flying in the country at present to particpate till then due to the update program tauranga website only has a list of past particpants i.e as on website However we can assure you an action packed show that will include many of the following from our previous Air Shows.. cheers

Heres pretty much the RNZAF line for this year.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force often host or participate in several events locally and overseas.

The 2008 Programme
20 January: Taupo A1GP - Red Checkers flying display and Iroquois static display

9 February: Christchurch Coast to Coast - Red Checkers flying display at the finish line

10 February: Christchurch RNZAF Museum Open Day - Red Checkers flying display

15 - 16 February: Napier Art Deco Weekend - Red Checkers flying display

17 February: Tauranga Sprortavex - Red Checkers flying display

23 February: Mercury Bay, Whitianga - SH2G Seaprite Helicopter display

24 February: Taieri Airshow - Red Checkers flying display

2 March: Timaru - Red Checkers flying display

6 - 7 March: Hamilton Airshow involving SH2G Seasprite Helicopter, Iroquois and Red Checkers flying displays. Kiwi Blue descent.

16 March: Ohakea Open Day - All RNZAF Squadrons wil be participating in flying and static displays. A fantastic day out for the whole family to see behind the scenes and learn about the role of the RNZAF at home and abroad.

20 - 24 March: Warbirds over Wanaka - Red Checkers flying display, flying and static displays by the C130 Hercules, Iroquois and SH2G Seaspite helicopters and Kiwi Blue descent.

+ Red Checkers for the Hamilton V8s

For further information please contact:
Air Force Public Relations
Air Staff
HQNZDF
Private Bag
Wellington
New Zealand
Ph +64 4 496 0294
Click here to email them.
http://www.airforce.mil.nz/operations/what...ays/default.htm

[Alex]

Mid-morning I saw another (or perhaps the same) bizjet climbing out of runway 18. From a distance it looked perhaps like a gulfstream type one? Paintwork was cream-white on the top, with a blue bottom curving upwards from the fuselage towards the tail.

Just wondering if anyone knows what aircraft it was / what it was doing?

Alex

[Daniel]

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[twinstarda42]

QUOTE (Alex @ Feb 13 2008, 08:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Mid-morning I saw another (or perhaps the same) bizjet climbing out of runway 18. From a distance it looked perhaps like a gulfstream type one? Paintwork was cream-white on the top, with a blue bottom curving upwards from the fuselage towards the tail.

Just wondering if anyone knows what aircraft it was / what it was doing?

Alex

Gulfstream 5 N85V left Rotorua late morning heading for Papeete.


Try this website for uncommon NZ aircraft movements has most days listed (like as Above) on this blog : http://mrcaviation.blogspot.com/

example full daylisting for today Wednesday 13 February 2008

Hawker 900XP N96SK departed Auckland mid morning for Melbourne and Echuca.

Hawker 800XP VH-MBP departed Auckland for Sydney late afternoon.

Pacific Aerospace's PAC XL750 ZK-JRS, c/n 138, departed Hamilton for Brisbane on its delivery flight to South Africa.

Gulfstream 5 N85V left Rotorua late morning heading for Papeete.

RAAF Boeing BBJ A36-001 made a brief visit to NZ today on a training flight, flying as "Ausy 330", arrived at Auckland from Nadi, then to Christchurch and onwards to Canberra.

Citationjet CJ3 ZK-TBM flew from Christchurch to Taupo, Queenstown and back to Taupo.

Citation 560XL VH-NGH arrived at Nelson from Auckland late afternoon.

Citation Mustang N1749L flew from its new Wellington home to Wanaka.

Citation Mustang N2243W departed Auckland for Hamilton and Hastings.

Another delivery to the NZ 'corporate' scene with Beechcraft King Air 200 ZK-MAN touching down at Nelson from Bankstown and Lord Howe Island around 1540 on delivery to Tasman Aviation, owned by well known local family Talley's. The aircraft will be used on a mix of private and charter flying (as Luxury Aircraft Charter).

[Alex]

QUOTE (twinstarda42 @ Feb 13 2008, 08:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Gulfstream 5 N85V left Rotorua late morning heading for Papeete.


Try this website for uncommon NZ aircraft movements has most days listed (like as Above) on this blog : http://mrcaviation.blogspot.com/

Oh cool, thanks for that. The site is definately going into my bookmark list.

Alex

[Anthony]

Great site! Should satisfy an curiosity based on strange aircraft heard or seen at school.

Thanks twinstarda42.

Cheers
Anthony Harris

[Daniel]

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[Anthony]

QUOTE (Daniel @ Feb 14 2008, 04:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As brotonee said Thanks for that link!
I will use it often.
Do they get information from flight plans or something?

Cheers
Daniel Firth

I wondered the exact same thing. It's too much of the country covered to be someone at an airport watching for this stuff (community effort maybe?).

Must be flight plans.

EDIT: upon reading it, every entry has "Posted by Mike Condon" at the bottom, so it's one person.

Cheers
Anthony Harris

[Globemaster]

Yes its a community effort from informants all over New Zealand and overseas all combined by Mike.

[Fauville]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Feb 18 2008, 02:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I haven't seen a Herc 'in the flesh' since last year's Whenuapai airshow I think.. so I'm very much looking forward to viewing one down at the Tauranga this weekend!

Speaking of Hercs, for the past hour 9-10 have had a herc flying over my house about 15 times at about 1000ft (although i'm slightly up a hill so more like 5-600 ft) (apart from a break when an Orion came over gear down), must be doing some night circuits at Whenuapai. I'm in Beach Haven, just over the Upper Harbour.

[hamstickZKFLT]

Oh cool! I saw that aswell!

[Anthony]

There was another C-130 (possibly/probably the same one) hanging around today, it was there for quite a while. Maybe 9 or 9.30 to 11 or 11.30 or so.
Seemed to be doing a lot - circuits, touch and goes, go arounds and the like.

Daniel should be forthcoming with more exact information.

Seems like it could be a Tuesday thing - it was here last Tuesday (OP on Feb 12)

By the way, there was a BBJ at ROT when I was returning from the TRG airshow on Sunday afternoon/evening:
Boeing BBJ N164RJ arrived at Rotorua from Sydney. After deplaning its passengers the BBJ positioned to Auckland for parking.
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Cheers
Anthony Harris

[Daniel]

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[hamstickZKFLT]

I saw It too!

When I was at P.E

AT THE SAME SCHOOL!

aaagggghhhhh!