D-Day at Ardmore!

[Charl]

This Sunday, and the weather is just right!
First chance to see a Texan II... I wonder if the Avenger might find its way there?

[Ian Warren]

First chance to see a Texan II...

Had a formation 4X rip in here this afternoon into CHCH I think unless they shot North again.

[Charl]

Auckland has a large population - a great many of whom turned up at Ardmore!
Sometimes it's best to watch the flying from a distance, you get a sense of what they're doing.
Here's my sole photo of it then (shot with a shoe-fone, I didn't go there for the pictures!)



Saw the T II display.
It's much more fastjet than initial trainer, it landed on about 2 deg glideslope

Watch on youtube.com

And it is fast, I had that inkling in the flightsim but couldn't be sure.
Also confirmed a long-held suspicion:
That noise you hear on flypast from prop planes?
It's all prop. You could hardly hear the turbine on this thing.
All you Spitfire fanbois are listening to, is a Dowty Rotol soundtrack!

[huff3r]

Yup the T IIs are little rockets thats for sure, love it when they do low approaches with the gear up over my house! Definitely a scary thought to think new pilots first ever landings could be in something so speedy!

[Ian Warren]

Obviously the ... snarl .. had four off them over here in CHCH day back

[Charl]

First time I've seen one, they don't come to Whenuapai much, obviously.
It's something of a BIG step from a CT4 into this thing...

[Ian Warren]

It's something of a BIG step from a CT4 into this thing...

Nahhhhhh ! Hav'nt ya tried Nije's CT-4E then jump into the IRIS T-6 nothing to it

[Charl]

Quite right!
Just like a Toyota Corolla and a McLaren P1... all the same: 4 wheels, front end, back end...

[Ian Warren]

Yeah .... only real change was the YELLOW

[emfrat]

Yes, well, on the golf course I could play the same shots as Greg Norman - the only difference was, he could play them on purpose