Some Queenstown

[Charl]

Since I was rummaging in the Queenstown box, thought I'd share these recent shots.



As you can imagine, I came back and had another look at Peter Lohr's NZQN flightsim scenery, and it is very good.
I will no doubt come up with a Real vs Sim pair...
A couple more of the McKenzie basin, an impromptu tour by Qantas, of which more later.
Airport at top right in the first one:

[Daniel]

Nice shots mate Thanks for posting
As for QF's Tour of ZQN it is part of the approach I think.
They overfly slopehill then do a big turn around in the area before landing (this is what we did when I went in on QF)

[Anthony]

Cool pics Charl, nice and snowy.
Nice to see the 737 and the A320 too.
Also good to hear that the scenery is pretty realistic - Peter Lohr.

[Ian Warren]

Charl ... Winter .. cold .. Holiday .. Arr the Tropic s is ... drrrra! the most /me (dreaming) lovely 30 temp plus days .. you .. the ice and cold ! ...... I like Operation Deep Frezze ! but for their aircraft!

[AlisterC]

That's once place I really want to fly into one day... Til then, thanks for the photos

[Mattnz]

Nice pictures, Charl.

Also good to see the 733 and 320 together

[Peppermint]

And here I was thinking Queenstown wasn't a very busy airport!

[Charl]

QUOTE (Peppermint @ Jul 24 2008, 01:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And here I was thinking Queenstown wasn't a very busy airport!

Boy this is a buzzy little airport in the holiday season!
They cart 'em in by the truck, erm, Boeing, load



When Andy took me up in the Pitts, we were stacked at the holdshort, number five for takeoff!
See here for a feel of the traffic:

[Ian Warren]

Jeepers .. everything on the move ! your camera did,t no which way to turn .. oooh over there .... no no over here ... nah down , look at me

[Charl]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 23 2008, 09:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Charl ... Winter .. cold .. Holiday .. Arr the Tropic s is ... drrrra! the most /me (dreaming) lovely 30 temp plus days .. you .. the ice and cold ! ...... I like Operation Deep Frezze ! but for their aircraft!

Well when you live in a tropical place like Auckland... 18 deg today, this would be midwinter then?

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 24 2008, 12:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Jeepers .. everything on the move ! your camera did,t no which way to turn .. oooh over there .... no no over here ... nah down , look at me

Well it's been 10 years since I visited Queenstown, I couldn't believe all the stuff going on around there!
The Convair followed us in from Christchurch incidentally, lovely plane.

[Daniel]

Do I see 2 Qantas 738's in ZQN there?
Thanks for adding that extra shot

[Anthony]

Another cool pic Charl.
Queenstown does look pretty busy.

[chickenman]

QUOTE (Daniel @ Jul 24 2008, 03:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do I see 2 Qantas 738's in ZQN there?
Thanks for adding that extra shot

ZQN goes nuts this time of year. Ski packages from OZ coincide with school holidays. This is a picture from three years ago with 5 jets on the tarmac and an ATR on finals.



Jamie

[Daniel]

Wow lots of traffic for ZQN there
Is it like that through the whole ski season?

[Charl]

QUOTE (Daniel @ Jul 25 2008, 03:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Wow lots of traffic for ZQN there
Is it like that through the whole ski season?

I believe not, the school hols both sides of the Tasman compound the issue.
What also struck me each time I was at the airport, was the rotorwing traffic.
There's maybe $20 million visibly tied up in those, and they shuttle up and down incessantly.

[Anthony]

Probably fairly busy during the whole ski season, but the holidays would make it worse.
That's why whenever we fly anywhere we try to time it not on the school holidays or other really busy times.
Can be a bit cheaper that way too, which is good

Love those winglets by the way

[NZ255]

QUOTE (Anthony @ Jul 25 2008, 05:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Love those winglets by the way

Who doesn't? ahhhhh.....


Cool vid, love that turn into the park at the end. But what was that I heard at the 2 minute mark? "Very nice picture of the fence actually? ???? OOOhhhh......Pitts.... right

[chickenman]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jul 25 2008, 04:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I believe not, the school hols both sides of the Tasman compound the issue.
What also struck me each time I was at the airport, was the rotorwing traffic.
There's maybe $20 million visibly tied up in those, and they shuttle up and down incessantly.

And also winter festival which is before the holidays and quite a few package tours after the holidays . The christmas break is just as busy as well. Rumor has it there is consideration of night landings on the RNAV approach being considered with the installation of lights.

You're right though the number of egg beater movements is amazing, especially when they are doing mountain bike runs up the remarks. Anyone who knows Queenstown will concur that the number of GA flights in and out especially helicopters is pretty hi. I love it first thing in the morning when there are all the milford flights heading out, it's like a huge convoy.

Places like auckland and christchurch are pretty cool for commercial and international flights but I love ZQN for the diversity of traffic in such a tight space. Best place to watch from is the top of peninsula hill.

Jamie

[Daniel]

QUOTE

Rumor has it there is consideration of night landings on the RNAV approach being considered with the installation of lights.[/quote]

That would be interesting if they did that.
But is there any point of having night flights?
Would anyone want to arrive after 5pm?

[Anthony]

I thought there were noise abatement issues at Queenstown that resulted in curfews and other limits?
Wouldn't night flights be totally the opposite to noise controls?
This will annoy the NIMBYs : if it goes ahead
I can't see them being very popular either, except maybe for business travellers who need to be somewhere like AKL all day and then get back to ZQN or something.