A Flightseeing Trip

[Florian_S]

After spending some time in Queenstown for some well needed R&R I decide to head to the spectacular Milford Sound area today. My ride will be ZK-MCD, one of the Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander's operated by Milford Sound Flightseeing.


Warming up MCD along side sister aircraft ZK-DBV


Taxiing to the runway...not very busy at NZQN this morning.


Having said that we have to hold short for an incoming Cessna


Soon enough we are in the air and leaving Queenstown behind.


The scenery for this flight will be quite mountainous and we must be very alert....


....but it will also supply very spectacular views the whole way!


The little Islander performs beautifully on the trip. It is an ideal aircraft for these flights.


Soon we begin our descent and prepare for our tight approach into runway 29


Coming in to land at NZMF....one of the more spectacular approaches I've had to make!


Parked up and disembarking....Welcome to Milford Sound!

Cheers
Florian

[Ian Warren]

I still am impressed what FS2004 can show .. Florian , everyone of those screens .. hey mate plane like that , short trip makes for one fun trip

[panavia]

WOW, Florian, your Shots looks very good!!! The Islander - is this the one with Groundcrew ??? Very Nice !!

I like your Avatar, but HSV was very far from Down Under or ?

[waka172rg]

Nice shots you have there Florian love the old islanders with the Preformance of a Cessna 172 haha

[Charl]

Great series Florian, that would be Marcel Kuhnt's excellent Islander, still excellent after all this time...
Now if Nunner is right,you started out next to the oldest NZ-registered Islander, been around maybe 30 years or so!

[Florian_S]

Thanks very much guys!

Frank, yes this is Marcel Kuhnt's Islander model...a very nice plane!

And my avatar is of course of the one and only Hamburger Sport Verein

I was born in Hamburg, but grew up and live in Sydney.

Also, thanks for the historical info Charl! Very interesting!

[panavia]

Florian,

yes of course, its the HSV, not Schalke!! AND I LIFE IN GERMANY - Damn !!! We have here so many Clubs...! And i´m not the biggest Soccer Fan...! Just like Formula 1 !!

[Florian_S]

Great picture Frank! - I love F1 too! I was a big fan of Michael Schumacher. My cat is even called "Schumi"

[Naki]

Nice shots Florian - I really should get around to installing that Islander - I started but it was a bit complicated, ran out of time and havent got back to it.