August 2010 Newsletter

AUGUST 2010

NEWSLETTER

Contents

President’s Report

CFI’s Report

Club Captain’s Report

Vice Club Captain’s Report

Admin Antics

Throttle . . . the office cat

14 Squadron Air Training Corps Flying Camp

Jet Pack Inventor to visit Napier

An article by Gavin Grimmer

MIG 21 For Sale

New Members

An Acknowledgement by Bruce and Wendy Worsnop

Contact List

Airborne

The Newsletter of the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club Inc

Hastings Aerodrome Bridge Pa, P O Box 2199 Hastings, New Zealand Telephone 06 879 8466

Fax 06 879 9805 Email: [email protected]

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Well, the wet winter has to ease off sometime. I never thought I would be longing for the arrival of the Spring equinoxal westerlies. Of course the gliding enthusiasts amongst us would be familiar with this. We can blame our resident rainmakers. No sooner had Max Dixon and Clem Powell commenced irrigating the grass runways a few months ago than it started raining and has barely eased since! We know who to call during the next drought. Gary Skedgwell and Sam Metzger continue to do well. Gary has been out at the Aero Club several times over the past couple of weeks. Good to see you back Gary. Sam is now at home in Auckland but still has further surgery planned. It was Sam’s 19th Birthday on 23rd August – so Happy Birthday Sam. We are all wishing both of you a continued speedy and full recovery. On Aug 19th Max Dixon, Mike Stonestreet and I attended an Airways meeting over at Napier. This was part of a 2 day workshop held by Airways to completely redraw the Hawkes Bay airspace – both IFR and VFR as part of the preparation for the introduction of R-NAV precision IFR approaches and departures at Napier airport. According to Airways the theory is that they should be able to retire some of what is currently controlled airspace due to the tighter, more precise R-NAV flight paths. The catch is much of the R-NAV IFR tracks and holding patterns have been moved to the south of Napier Airport placing them right where we would like to see controlled airspace freed up. At this stage it appears we will be no worse off and the Airways team are going to look at some options that might possibly see the control zone boundary from Flaxmere to the coast shrink 1-2 miles towards Napier which would be good news. They are also going to consider whether it is possible to raise the lower level above our aerodrome from its current 2500ft. Any changes will be implemented in November 2011. The Committee has completed the preparation of the draft five year Strategic Plan for the Aero Club. The next step will be to take the draft to the Club membership over the coming months for consultation ahead of next years AGM where Club members can vote on whether to formally adopt the Plan. More information to follow on the wider consultation process after the next Committee meeting. Our flying scholarship recipients are a regular sight out at the Club – flying and at the social nights. Great stuff. Along with their flying lessons they have commenced a series of weekly evening lectures/get togethers as a group and are keen to join in on any trips away. This sort of nurturing of our new student pilots and members is precisely what the Club needs to do more of and we will definitely be repeating it for all future intakes of scholarship winners. Our Club CFI Max Dixon is looking into the requirements for commencing instruction in microlight aircraft through the Aero Club. More on this in the next one to two months but hopefully we will be able to offer training and BFR’s in microlight aircraft before the end of the year.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the recent school visits to the aerodrome. We get a few of these each Spring usually involving from 30-80 primary school kids and their teachers and parents. They are actually a lot of fun and take about 2 hours. We break them into groups of about 15 with a couple of guides and they typically get to look at a few of the older planes, visit Heli HB and HB Aviation, see a glider, watch Marty pack a parachute, jump into a Tomahawk etc.. The kids love it and ask a lot of questions. The Club members of the future….

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We are now six months into the financial year and pressure is mounting on our budgeted profit. After being on track for the first 5 months we have taken some hits in recent weeks with costs related to EHY and unscheduled maintenance on RSQ and one of the Tomahawks. Also some anticipated extra expense due to our insurance company withdrawing from the aviation market. We will be doing everything we can to minimise low priority expenditure to reduce the impact. But at the moment we are forecasting a 30% reduction in budgeted year end profit. I have been asked if we plan to tarseal the gravel carpark in front of the Club rooms. Last year we did get some quotes to do this and the cost was in the >$50K range. This project is realistically far down our list of priorities. But we will be making another application for outside funding and some of our gliding members who have experience of this grants process have kindly offered their assistance. So we will see how we go. The Aerodrome is listed as a regional infrastructure asset in the District Plan so we have a case. Another possible project…. You may have noticed myself and Club Captain Chris Rawlings and Cliff Johnston tapping the noticeboard wall in the reception area, inspecting building plans as well as crawling through the ceiling. It can get very crowded in the reception area and it is a small and featureless space for the public/prospective new club members walking in. We are exploring the potential for enlarging that space by removing part or all of the wall to join the reception area and the flight planning room. This would give us room for more seating, and display space and promotional information along with a more accessible flight planning area. Still early days yet but I will keep you informed if it looks feasible.

Bruce Govenlock

Photo courtesy David Walker

Photo courtesy Warren Buckland

CFI’S REPORT

Hello all . . . . AIRSPACE I was going to tell you about the recent meeting with Airways Corp at Napier, but Bruce G has covered that pretty well. The presentation was friendly and informative, and in the longer term it looks like we will still be in a good position within the proposed new airspace, with close access to uncontrolled airspace for our training needs, and good access to our aerodrome from most directions. SPRING I was walking through one of the hangers the other day, and spotted the first sign of spring. Yes you guessed it, dried grass on the floor, and bird droppings on propellers and engine nacelles. Be careful out there, and if any signs of birds nesting is found, check inside the cowls. The Archer and the Cessna’s are a bit more difficult, but please get someone to help you. There is nothing worse than the smell of smoldering grass and seeing the oil temp gauge climbing into the red on climb out. CLUB COMPETITIONS Elsewhere in this Newsletter, The Club Captain talks about club and Flying NZ competitions. How is this for an idea? The next time you are going flying, get one of the instructors to tell you about some of the competitions available to pilots. A copy of the rules for individual competitions can be printed off for you very simply. Talk to instructors, Club Captain, or myself if you have any questions. If you need to fly dual for whatever reason, lots of the competitions can be tried out during these flights. THROTTLE . . . I note that Throttle has been listening to the base radio, judging by some of its comments. I tend to think that it has a secret hand held radio, because if Throttle had spent any time at the base radio, I would have figured out who it is. The phrase BUT ARE YOU LISTENING TO WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING makes a lot of sense. It is all very well to broadcast your position and intentions every few minutes, but remember that while you are talking, others can’t, so keep it brief. There has been a tendency lately, to establish other aircraft position with ears rather than eyes. Although ears are important, it is the eyes that are vital. A recent paper published by the FAA simply says, the eyes are not the only method of establishing an aircraft’s position, so a bit of both is obviously the best way. Safe Flying Max D CFI

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Hello members, I have to say "it is good to be home", except for the weather. I cannot believe that it was raining when I had to leave to Canada suddenly and to return home to more rain. Soon it will be summer and then we will be complaining that it's too hot. May I extend a thank you to all that helped out with club events and activities while I was away, to those who sent notes of condolences for the passing of Sandy's mother, and to Stephanie for her superb role of organising our "Dawn Visit" and other activities. To know that we have a strong contingent of members that will "jump into" helping when required is very pleasing, so thank you all. Now to other matters.

RNZAC AREA COMPETITIONS People, we need competitors and it seems that every year we have the same problem finding them or it turns out to be the same people doing it each year. I'm not sure that people realise how many available competitions there are that can be entered. When we hosted the Nationals earlier this year, I was surprised to see what competitions had been entered from other Clubs and to see what competitions had been completely ignored. They are the competitions that we need to enter, for example one would be the Life Raft Drop that attracted only three entries. I would like to hear from you, the members, to see why this is. Is it do to with financial reasons, time or other reasons. Let me know so we can get a plan in place to rectify this and get more people into it. So on that note, last Sunday of this month, August 29th we will be having a chance to see if you can fly the new G1000 flight simulator. While people are trying this out I will be around to talk with people on completion's for the Area Rally on November 20th at Masterton, and also getting people to have a go. So members, I look forward to seeing you at the ‘Drome. Club Captain Chris

The weather has been pretty wet so we were unable to have the beach fly in. This will be rescheduled for later in the year. Bruce and I escaped for a week's road trip around parts of the South Island. Non-aviation you might think? Put it this way - with in an hour of arriving into CHCH airport - we were at Wigram delving into the archives. Here are a couple of airfields from our travels for you to name, you can see we avoided the tourist haunts. We’ll let you know next newsletter the airfields in question.

VICE CLUB CAPTAIN’S REPORT

This one is a landing place rather than an airfield.

Looked like this in 1931.

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Friday Nights Even if the weather has not been great, Friday night at the club keeps the winter blues at bay. We've sold the raffle tickets out three weeks ahead. Double draws coming up. Busy, welcoming and cheerful company. Scholarship / PPL's The club is running PPL theory tutorials on Tuesday nights as needed. Current subject is FRTO. Chris Rawlings is taking this one. Fine tutor he is too. If anyone has study books that are no longer wanted they would be gratefully accepted into the Club "Study Library". Also looking for club members to assist in tutoring/ mentoring roles. Kind of like a pool of club members that students can talk to/email to discuss papers/difficulties etc. We have such a wealth of knowledge and practical experience within the club membership- crazy not to share it. Textbook learning can be pretty dry but is easily brought to life with a few real life stories. Club Day Sunday 29th. A chance to try out the FRASCA G1000 Sim with some knowledgeable instruction on hand. Practice your forced landings. Usual barbeque at 4pm. Coming up September I see it’s Father’s Day on Sunday September 5th. Does that mean Dad is entitled to spend the entire day flying and hanging around airfields? Why not band together and organise a Fathers Day Fly away. Perfect excuse . . . . Tail Dragger Day 11th September Thank you to all who have offered accommodation and assistance for the fly in weekend. We have aircraft arriving from the South Island (a contingent making plans ex Rangitata which I know will make some club members happy) and we have a nice variety of aircraft making the trip from many parts in the North. All going well we'll have a colourful collection of tail draggers decorating the field from vintage to sports class to state of art STOL machines with many opting to arrive on Friday and stay for a long weekend. Come along and be part of it. The wild food lunch on Saturday is looking good thanks to our hunters. We will need some additional cooks to help out though please. Cost of the lunch? Expect between $10 - $15 (not costed yet) and we will need you to indicate numbers for obvious reasons. We run two competitions for tail draggers: Bombing: Traditional flour bombs dropped from a great height aimed to target the deck of an old Jailbar truck. Trick is the truck is a moving target (barely moving). STOL: Short Take off and Landing. Two classes: Cub class and Heavy class. (We may do a special Tiger sub class depending on numbers). Last year's winners: Bombing Won by Piper Cub BQS - pilot Sean Husheer with Jerry Chisum as bombardier. Cub Class STOL: Winner Piper Cub BQS - pilot Sean Husheer. Runner up Piper Cub BTX - pilot Bruce Coulter. (Scores 128 and 137) Heavy Class STOL: Winner Helio Courier TCE - pilot Trevor Collins. Runner up C185 CES - pilot Nigel Griffith. (Scores 117 and 161).

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Club Day: 26th September Something different. Fly to Rangitaiki for brunch. Bring along your best mate.

Other September Aviation events: September 3rd - 5th 2010 21st Brass Monkey Fly-In 2010 Lake Station Aerodrome (NZLE) Nelson Lakes National Park. All clubs, flying schools and pilots are welcome to attend. Stephanie

The special rates for JMR ($240 dual,

$225 solo) are being extended

to 31st January 2011.

Believe or not the above aircraft is actually a model.

ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN ANTICSANTICSANTICSANTICS

Hi everyone! I cannot believe that another month has gone by. I just about fell over when I received a reminder email from Sue. Well, what am I going to write about? I’m getting used to writing because I’m in the middle of a 2500-word essay for my university paper. We have to choose one particular outbreak of Black Death, in one particular locality, and analyse the responses. I’ve chosen Florence in 1348. Perhaps a field trip might be in order… Last week, I went down to Massey for a work seminar on international students. After getting lost three times on campus, and doing a U-turn in front of a sign that quite clearly stated “No U-Turns”, I finally found my way to the parking lot. Luckily there were other seminar attendants there so I could follow them to the correct building. There were about 100 people in total, including representatives from schools. The seminar was mostly aimed at providers that enrol very young international students, but some of it did apply to us. There was also a very good morning tea which I partook heartily of. After that, I met my paper co-ordinator which was really good, especially after I took one of her papers last year. Then it was off to the Library to act like a real uni student and check out books. Whilst I was there, I had a chat to some of the Massey Aviation students. They could hardly believe what our guys do in the space of 12 months, as they were just about to sit their CPL’s in their second year. CPL Flight Tests for our Year 1’s have just started today so the last week has been a hotbed of last minute flying and plane-cleaning. Then they will be into the Simulator to start their instrument flying training. If it wasn’t for our international students, the Tomahawks would be slumbering in the hangars, doing bugger all. I am pleased to report that the poor goldfish has finally got a new tank. It doesn’t really like it that much and is sitting on the bottom, sulking. Perhaps a visit from Throttle might liven it up a bit. We are due to have a CAA Audit tomorrow so that always adds a touch of excitement to the normal working week. I have been madly checking logbooks and documentation, and generally hounding people even more than usual. Sam and Gary are continuing to make improvements and I understand that Sam is now finally back at home. I sent him some chocolate and a book whilst he was in Auckland Hospital. The book is one my parents got for me, and it is about an Australian Olympic Skier who is hit by a car whilst out training. Her injuries are horrific, and yet she fights back, and ends up training to become a flying instructor. I thought it might be quite appropriate. Whilst in the chocolate-sending frame of mind, I packaged up some more (together with coffee), to send to Lisa Curran who is now in Queensland training for her new venture. I hear it was greatly appreciated. Well, the end of the page is coming up, so Sue will be pleased with me. Look forward to seeing you all out here as the weather starts to warm up, and we have more daylight hours. YIPPEE! Justine Fisher

Here we are again, another month older, and no wiser it seems. We now have five, yes FIVE Bored Members! As if four wasn’t bad enough! Neil, Ken and Aunty Roger have joined this elite bunch who have the supposed duty of managing our fiscal situation but whose main challenge in life is to stay awake during interminably long Bored Meetings. Does this mean the previous members weren’t actually Bored enough so we needed more? Can we expect to see greater lack of enthusiasm now? I hope to sneak in and report on the next meeting . . . then again, nah, maybe not.

How’s that for a pic of 777 technicians searching for me after I took a stroll through the pipe work. NEWSFLASH - Justine has been diagnosed as having LSDR (Lacking in Sensible Dialogue Response). Management have kindly provided her with a wheelchair to help cope with the situation. This fancy new creation comes with fully adjustable height, multi direction control, instant forward/reverse direction change and is finished in Executive Black. It is powered by an LFPT Unit (Legs For Propulsion Thereof) and controlled by her own internal guidance system. Make sure you get Justine to demonstrate it when you next visit the office! There is again talk of sealing the yard- now where am I going to toilet may I ask? Not to worry, if past track record is good I

should be safe for quite some time! Club Day is coming up soon with comps practice. C’mon out and show ‘em what ya got! With any luck instructor Terry “Shortside” will be on hand to demonstrate how to exceed a Tomahawk’s neg G limits, they are not quite as high as 152 Aerobat! I’ve been warming my nether regions on the Base RT during the colder weather and listening to the radio chatter. It concerns me that some of you (Air HB trainees included, and sometimes especially) think you are Lord (or Lady) Muck from Poo Island cruising around telling everyone what you are doing BUT ARE YOU LISTENING TO WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING? Near misses are bad because they are only split seconds off a “Feilding”. Think about it and don’t be afraid to ask for a repeat of an unclear broadcast! Also don’t expect glider pilots to demonstrate an intelligent response—after all it might be me contesting you for 01! 11

th September Taildragger Day looming! Not to be missed by

anyone with 100 octane in their blood not to mention alcohol! Bartons Marine have large weights for increasing aft COG and Supercheap have some castors you can strap to the rear fuselage to look the part if you’re a/c is unable to manage the “snooty look down my nose” look. A leather flying helmet and jacket, with superior look will complete the outfit! Here’s a pic of a dog which tried to take me on. A quick split s turn saw him in real danger of losing his fuel tanks. Throttle is “complete”. Keep your eyes open and ears up!

Throttle . . .

the office cat

With some fairy dust and a few well placed phone calls 19 14 squadron members made their way to a Hastings for a flying camp. We arrived on Friday the 6th August and set to work assembling the 14x14 tents that would be our home for the next few days. Once that was over we made our way into town for a spot of dinner and then straight to bed with our minds racing with the next day’s events some of us trying to hide the nerves of first time flyers or even near a plane. Saturday we woke up and butterflies still racing through our bodies set off for breakfast. Once that was over it was time for a quick safety brief and we were into the main activity of the day. Andrew Leech started us off with our most nervous cadet giving a very detailed brief of the plane and what we would be doing. When the cadet got back on the ground we could not get the smile off his face no matter what we said or did. (This is when we got that feeling it really was a must repeat experience.) The flying followed on a few other first timers and a few with a dash of experience, again when they got on the ground the smile made all the hard work worth while. We would like to say thank you to the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club for providing the excellent facilities and the instructors Zane, Charles, Andrew L, Neale and of course Max for being Max. The cadets cannot wait to fly again and the idea of night flying is being thrown around the office but no dates as yet because of exams etc. Again thank you so much for the wonderful experience nearly all the cadets have been inspired pursue flying because of the experience. On behalf of 14 squadron City Of Gisborne Air Training Corps, thank you Under Officer Kirstyn Rolfe

Some photos courtesy Kirstyn . . . .

JETPACK JETPACK JETPACK JETPACK INVENTOR TO TO TO TO

VISIT NAPIERVISIT NAPIERVISIT NAPIERVISIT NAPIER

The Inventor of the world’s first practical jetpack, Glenn Martin will be in Napier next month to give a free public presentation about the Martin Jetpack – a lifelong dream that has come to fruition after years of secret tinkering in the Martin garage. The event, hosted by the Hawke’s Bay Branch of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) is part of an annual national series – the Pickering Lectures. The lectures are named for another New Zealand innovator, William Pickering who was a key figure in the US Space programme and who has been cited by Mr Martin as a personal hero. As a child, Glenn Martin dreamt of flying. Later, studying biochemistry at the University of Otago, Glenn and his friends fantasised about flying home to their flat after long nights at the local hotel. While his flatmates let the thought pass, Glenn began a lifetime’s work researching the potential for personal aviation devices. In 1998, after years of refining and redesigning his secret invention, Glenn founded a company in Christchurch with the specific goal of researching and developing a jetpack that could fly 100 times longer than the Bell Rocket Belt (26 seconds). Glenn and his team of innovative engineers achieved that goal in 2005 with “Prototype 9”, laying the foundations for a viable pre-production prototype to be developed. The Martin Jetpack was unveiled in July 2008 at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture in Wisconsin, and the Martin Jetpack became international front-page news. Earlier this year, the Martin Aircraft Company signed a $12-million joint-venture deal with an international aircraft company, to build Martin Jetpacks with the aim of making 500 units generating annual turnover of $100 million within three years. The jetpacks will be sold to emergency response organisations, such as police and military, providing a quick way of getting aid and relief into disaster-hit areas. You’ll be able to order one later this year at a cost of around NZ$70,000.

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From Gavin Grimmer . . .

On Saturday 7th June, 1947, one of our club members, 23 year old John Dennis Tacon, set off from our field for Taupo in one of our Tiger Moths ZK-AJV that was painted bright yellow. Although there were many supposed sightings of him, he disappeared without trace.

I spent quite a bit of time researching into what could have possibly happened to him using various means and came up with two possible scenarios, based on elapsed times, for him to be where many of the sightings were. Many of the times don’t match up, but I’ve found this is very common when people are asked to try to remember something a day or two later, of an event that was not important at the time they observed them.

In 1947, seeing an aeroplane flying past probably would have been rather a major event for a lot of people, but needing to know the time a day or two later would have been the last thing on their minds. This makes it very difficult to accurately track the movements so all you can do is work out different scenarios and see if they fit the overall picture. I came up with two scenarios that seemed to fit. One was where AJV ended up in the Tarawera area.

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You’ll note that I have the track circumnavigating Lake Taupo and this I did purely based on the premise that as young fellow very enthusiastic in aeroplanes, he quite likely went for a bit of a tiki-tour and what better place than around Lake Taupo. It is possible that he landed somewhere instead as there is quite a bit of time needed to make up the large time difference between the sighting at Pohokura and next few in the Taupo area. In the other scenario, I tied it all back to the report of “the plane was seen to fall on the Taupo side of the Titiokura Ranges between 11.00 a.m. and 11.30 a.m.”, which to me seemed like an unusual sort of sighting, so I based this scenario on maybe all the sightings towards Tarawera were of another Tiger Moth, and Dennis was actually trying to return home when he went missing. In writing this, I see there is another scenario that maybe he landed at Rangitaiki, waited awhile, and then tried to return home. That would make all the sightings around the Taupo/Tarawera area that of another Tiger Moth, of which there were a lot of after the War.

West of the Titiokura Ranges would place this aircraft in the vicinity of the Mohaka River and unfortunately it is not mentioned where the observer of this report was standing when they saw it. I presumed that this person was close to the Napier/ Taupo highway and so this is where I placed the end of the track shown in the Google Earth image shown above. This scenario is strengthened by a report given by a Southland farmer and his wife, Mr and Mrs Goodlet, who stated that they had seen a Tiger Moth at about 11.00 a.m. from the Napier/ Taupo road, that it was flying very low. After they first saw it, the aircraft banked and then proceeded east towards Napier. Once again there is no mention of where on the Napier/Taupo road this was! Another report was from a pig hunter, somewhere in the Tititokura Ranges, heard an aeroplane flying at what he guessed as tree-top height at about 11.00 a.m. He said it was poor visibility and low cloud at the time.

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As many of you know, I have a website: www.findlostaircraft.co.nz and I spend many hours researching and actually searching for missing aircraft and you can read a lot of this on the website. I also have written and published a sequel to Richard Waugh’s book “LOST…without trace?” which is a very extensive account of the 1962 mysterious disappearance of DH Dragonfly ZK-AFB and the resulting largest air search in the southern hemisphere. My book “TRACED…yet still missing!” is the result of a very intensive 18 month period of my life, of researching and actual searching for this Dragonfly and other aircraft, and can be bought via my website, or simply direct from me. Anyway, due to my website, last Friday (23/08/10) I got home to find an email from a gentleman and this is part of what he had to say: “Something I wanted to mention, although you may already know of it. One day an old friend of mine mentioned that in his younger deer stalking days he had seen the wreckage of a biplane ( an old moth he said ) in the area of bush on the north side of the Mohaka river near the Willow Flats area.” I naturally got back to him and found out more details and got a very small, defined search area from him (his friend died three years ago!), and thought, “Wow, this would make the mother of all Club days – a ground search for one of our long lost aeroplanes!” Sunday saw Avon and I in the area after a 1 1/2hr drive but was disappointed when I discovered that the area is very difficult to get to. It originally appeared to me on Google Earth that there was a public road just above the area, but this turned out not to be correct. I spoke to some of the locals and got whatever information they were able to give, although none of them had heard of this sighting before. I’ve found that some people come across things in the bush and just presume that everyone else knows about it! I’ve yet to follow up on the information that I’ve got, but I’ve currently been to Aerial Mapping and ordered photos taken in 1949 and lower level ones in 1962 and hope to find something of interest on them. I worked out how to overlay digital versions of these photos on Google Earth so that they can be examined more closely. The area is on Crown Land although to access it, you need to cross privately owned properties and I would first have to trace the owners and gain their permission. There is a possibility that walking along the riverbank could access it. If you are interested in joining in on what could be an exciting, but physically challenging ground search (if I’m able to tee it all up), please send me a quick email ([email protected]) to register your interest. If this does turn out to be our long lost Tiger Moth ZK-AJV, then it would appear that on attempting to return to our airfield, Dennis has found that his track was blocked by cloud along the Titiokura Range and he has attempted to follow the Mohaka River out to the sea (an option that I know others have done in the past) and either he has run out of fuel (if he’d been flying the whole time, i.e. hadn’t landed anywhere), or more than likely flew into the ground in the murky, marginal weather, as I note that if he was at very low level in this area, then he would have had great difficulty navigating the tight bend in a very narrow valley above the river.

This was pretty daring. Just one little ripple or downdraft etc, and it would all be over! Early morning anglers are treated to the spectacle of four T6 Harvard Aircraft from The Flying Lions Aerobatic Team water-skiing across the Klipdrift Dam near Johannesburg South Africa. Arnie Meneghelli from Academy Brushware, owner of the aircraft, had this to say, 'What we did today I believe is a world first. It illustrates that South African air show pilots are amongst the best in the world.' This unusual act, approved by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and supported by Castrol Aviation, was meticulously planned and took place under the watchful eye of divers and

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From Bruce and Wendy Worsnop . . .

Wendy and I wish to thank your club members for the hospitable and generous

microlight open day hosted by the Club recently, with free rides I must say was so

good.

An initiative which certainly engenders good feelings with all, and for we as green

horns was just so nice to be able to mix and participate with out the feeling of being a

nuisance.

Wendy, who is hoping to acquire her own aircraft soon, found the day extremely

valuable, helping her to ascertain what to look for.

As the owners of “Kowhai Airfield NZKY” we always welcome visitors to use our

facility.

A phone call can help as stock are often present, but they can be moved from the air if

a “good beat up” is done forcing stock from the south edge near the road toward the

northern hill area which they will naturally go to.

So thank you all again, especially the owners who so

generously and kindly took us up flying.

Yours sincerely

Bruce and Wendy

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Contact List

PATRON Cyril Whitaker

PRESIDENT Bruce Govenlock 06 879 8860

VICE PRESIDENT Neil Lawrence 06 876 8933

SECRETARY Justine Fisher 06 879 8466

TREASURER Steve Shepherd 06 845 3002

CLUB CAPTAIN Chris Rawlings 06 870 0110

VICE CLUB

CAPTAIN Stephanie Eilers 06 879 8860

COMMITTEE Steve Algar 06 843 4052

Bruce Chambers 06 874 9894

Phillip Gray 06 871 0081

Gavin Grimmer 06 879 4950

Clem Powell 06 842 2212

Jan White 06 879 9493

John Clare 06 877 3990

Marty Lloyd 027 443 6094

RNZAC CONTACT Kevin Lloyd (Cook Strait Rep)

Max Dixon (Instructor Council)

CHIEF FLYING

INSTRUCTOR Max Dixon 06 879 6461

EDITOR Sue Dixon 06 879 6461

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