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Thread ID: 127776 2012-11-13 19:59:00 New Zealand Intl Air Show WalOne (4202) PC World Chat
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1312266 2012-11-14 20:27:00 I seem to remember reading that it was to be at Ardmore. rnzaf.proboards.com
It it's at Dairy flat then it's only going to be small planes.(Does it even have a sealed runway?) pity as we've changed some schedules to go to this but now I may not even bother..
paulw (1826)
1312267 2012-11-14 20:29:00 Dairy Flat runway is concrete, but it is not a huge expanse for wider undercarriages. R2x1 (4628)
1312268 2012-11-14 20:39:00 An empty DC3 can get in and out of Dairy Flat and that's about it. From thread in link of my previous post.
:)
Trev (427)
1312269 2012-11-14 21:00:00 May be the organisers are copying the Yanks ... they organise an event and call it International but they don't invite the rest of the world to participate :D WalOne (4202)
1312270 2012-11-14 21:02:00 I flew into Dairy Flat once, the circuit direction in VFG was one way and planes were coming in the other way. Called on unattended and they said locals came in this way but visitors came in other circuit direction.
Same at Te Kowhai the boss would come out and say fly right hand circuits today a neighbour over there is complaining about the noise. Of you go but visitors are coming in in the other direction. Whenuapai was a worry to they said you shouldn't join overhead when parachuting was taking place and if you joined down wind the ****ing chute planes would cut you off in their spiral show off descending dives to join.
Seems today its sorted out CAA vector article lately said fly left always unless a real good reason.
Sometimes I think I am lucky to be alive especially the first time I landed in Ardmore with about 8 planes in the circuit.
prefect (6291)
1312271 2012-11-14 21:10:00 Sometimes I think I am lucky to be alive especially the first time I landed in Ardmore with about 8 planes in the circuit.

So you're the guy who did that standard circuit rejoin and cut into the middle of the downwind leg scattering about 3 other aircraft in all directions :D
WalOne (4202)
1312272 2012-11-14 21:13:00 8 planes at in the circuit at Ardmore meant it was night in the 60's - 70's.
Blow the Vector articles, sometimes you have to just straighten up and fly right.
R2x1 (4628)
1312273 2012-11-14 21:17:00 One of them in the circuit was Paul Holmes heap of **** biplane.
I had a microlight and the circuit height for them was 500 ft so you had faster planes overtaking you in the circuit above you. I can remember heart beating pretty fast sometimes when plane said it would be somewhere on the circuit and you couldn't see it.
prefect (6291)
1312274 2012-11-14 21:35:00 I can remember heart beating pretty fast sometimes when plane said it would be somewhere on the circuit and you couldn't see it.

Especially if it was Paul H in the same circuit. Paul H - the same intrepid aviator who went for a joyride through the Wellington Control Zone without ATC permission, and on occasion beat up the Warbirds hangar at Ardmore ...

:D
WalOne (4202)
1312275 2012-11-14 23:43:00 May be the organisers are copying the Yanks ... they organise an event and call it International but they don't invite the rest of the world to participate :D

Like????
paulw (1826)
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