Is that Spring in the air ????????
The weather has been fairly decent over the last couple of weeks which has allowed me to get quite a few flights done. The good news is that I have finally started my Nav flights and I'm now only 10 flights away from the dreaded PPL skills test, arghhhhhhhhhh. Before the skills test I have to do my Commercial Pilots Licence (CPL) Qualifier, a 400 mile solo X-country flight that involves two land aways and takes the best part of a day to complete (5 hours of flight time). If the weather holds out then I should get scheduled for my Qualifier some time next week, should be fun/terrifying. Class 1 Medical renewal up in Auckland tomorrow, should pass that without any problems, touch wood!
The photos below are of mine and Al's flight last week to Tauranga on the east coast and back to Hamilton via Rotorua, enjoy.
A lovely old DC3 pays a visit to Hamilton
Tracking east towards Tauranga and crossing the Kamai mountain range at 4500 ft. An engine failure over terrain like this would be very very bad news indeed.
Mt. Maunganui at Tauranga. This is a really great airport and one that I will certainly be visiting a lot when I get my NZ PPL. The runway is off to the right and circuit pattern takes you out over the Pacific Ocean, great fun. Beyond Mt. Maunganui you can see the 'White Island', NZ's only active marine volcano named by Captain Cook in 1769. Here endeth today's History lesson.
Approaching Rotorua airport, overhead Lake Rotorua with Mt. Ruapehu in the distance. Rotorua is a hotbed of volcanic activity and as a result the whole place stinks of rotten eggs, you can even smell it when your flying around at 2000ft.
Dam that is one big ass lake! Seriously though, the lakes in this country are massive, Lake Rotorua covers an area of approximately 80 square kilometres. Rotorua is small fry compared to Lake Taupo though, it has a surface area of 616 square kilometres. Here endeth today's geography lesson.
Tracking west back towards Hamilton above the cloud layer at 5000ft, awesome.
The weather has been fairly decent over the last couple of weeks which has allowed me to get quite a few flights done. The good news is that I have finally started my Nav flights and I'm now only 10 flights away from the dreaded PPL skills test, arghhhhhhhhhh. Before the skills test I have to do my Commercial Pilots Licence (CPL) Qualifier, a 400 mile solo X-country flight that involves two land aways and takes the best part of a day to complete (5 hours of flight time). If the weather holds out then I should get scheduled for my Qualifier some time next week, should be fun/terrifying. Class 1 Medical renewal up in Auckland tomorrow, should pass that without any problems, touch wood!
The photos below are of mine and Al's flight last week to Tauranga on the east coast and back to Hamilton via Rotorua, enjoy.
A lovely old DC3 pays a visit to Hamilton
Tracking east towards Tauranga and crossing the Kamai mountain range at 4500 ft. An engine failure over terrain like this would be very very bad news indeed.
Mt. Maunganui at Tauranga. This is a really great airport and one that I will certainly be visiting a lot when I get my NZ PPL. The runway is off to the right and circuit pattern takes you out over the Pacific Ocean, great fun. Beyond Mt. Maunganui you can see the 'White Island', NZ's only active marine volcano named by Captain Cook in 1769. Here endeth today's History lesson.
Approaching Rotorua airport, overhead Lake Rotorua with Mt. Ruapehu in the distance. Rotorua is a hotbed of volcanic activity and as a result the whole place stinks of rotten eggs, you can even smell it when your flying around at 2000ft.
Dam that is one big ass lake! Seriously though, the lakes in this country are massive, Lake Rotorua covers an area of approximately 80 square kilometres. Rotorua is small fry compared to Lake Taupo though, it has a surface area of 616 square kilometres. Here endeth today's geography lesson.
Tracking west back towards Hamilton above the cloud layer at 5000ft, awesome.
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