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Thread ID: 123102	2012-02-03 20:36:00	Red Checkers at NZWN	WalOne (4202)	PC World Chat

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1257250	2012-02-04 07:22:00	Went for Brevet Club scholarship in 1965 Cessna something, can't remember, in New Plymouth. Didn't win it, was the only female student. Still took lessons until 1966, never went solo. Lots of fun though! LL Well done for trying. You must have been flying from the old Bell Block field. On my epic solo cross country, I remember flying over Stratford in rain under low cloud at about 150 feet and following the railway line into Bell Block ...	WalOne (4202)
1257251	2012-02-04 08:09:00	I know what you 're saying. I hardly flew the V100 after my PPL and graduating to the C172 - cross country flying was always my bag. Reckon I must have the record - or a record - for the longest bone jarring PPL solo cross country in a V100: WN/OH/NP (b/l OH - ahem), NP-AR-WP (b/l WP - ahem), WP-WR-AR-HN-PM-MS-WN. I remember meeting Jim Fenwick at HN, who gave me some fail-safe advice which was never wrong: if on reaching 1000ft you can see the table mountain south of Taumarunui, you'll get through the middle OK. Never forgot that. :D Jim Fenwick he sure was experienced guess he would be too old to fly now. I learnt to fly at Te Kowhai never met him but I have his book which I used to study for the ppl subjects.	prefect (6291)
1257252	2012-02-04 08:23:00	Jim Fenwick he sure was experienced guess he would be too old to fly now. I learnt to fly at Te Kowhai never met him but I have his book which I used to study for the ppl subjects. Hi name was Ken. I worked for him for a couple of years. Died fairly recently. Both his sons entered flying and now their children are flying, one off carriers for the USAF. When did you learn to fly at Te Kowhai. If you remember the owner of the airfield, Max Clear he passed away a couple of months ago too.	tut (12033)
1257253	2012-02-04 08:51:00	Hi name was Ken. I worked for him for a couple of years. Died fairly recently. Both his sons entered flying and now their children are flying, one off carriers for the USAF. When did you learn to fly at Te Kowhai. If you remember the owner of the airfield, Max Clear he passed away a couple of months ago too. I went solo in 1996. My plane was kept in an old stable at Barry and Sallys used to taxi out and thru a gate onto the airfield if the wind was right slam the throttle open and commit some aviation. It was right on the approach so when I was working on it the other club members would give me the fingers over the side. I moved it up to Hobsonville and operated out of the glider club free hangarage in return for servicing the glider club TEA Fergi and the winch. Max of course built my microlight never forgot the call when he finished it and took it for its first test flight. Myself and Max once did a night flight in it with me holding an ex Kittyhawk landing lamp out the side. Sure sad about Max he was a good bugger, really helped heaps of young kids get the flying bug many are now pilots all round the place.	prefect (6291)
1257254	2012-02-04 11:00:00	I am a believer that rough weather makes flying fun, I have been up a few times for various reasons. One time I got an hours trial flight at kapiti. Deliberately used it when there was some epic turbulence coming off kapiti due to a southerly front. It was the most fun I'd had in ages, you'd struggle to take off getting bounced around in the turbulent air, make a right turn towards otaki getting punched up and down 500ft every few seconds and then turn across the hills. We got caught in a hurricane of a updraft near the hill, took us up a few 1000 ft in an extremely short space of time before we powered out and lost it all in the same way :D Unfortunately he only let me have one shot at landing and it ended up being a go around. Will be attempting to get into the aviation industry somehow this year, hopefully the Airforce will think i'm a star and accept me in (probably not, space is tighter than... a tight space :D ) If not RNZAF then i'll have to get a job and foot the $45,000 it takes to get your CPL+PPL these days and hope an airline takes me on. Tough industry nowadays. I thoroughly believe I should have been born 1930-40, then I would have been able to enjoy life, fly crazy, enjoy all the mechanical and scientific goodies that were around back in the day and eventually be ready to drop off at ripe old age. Only bad thing i'd have to endure is the terrible age of design called 1990-2002 where people thought just because it was made on PC it was clever. It wasn't. It was hideous. I can Honestly say I would give everything up to flick back a few decades. Then again, wouldn't we all?	The Error Guy (14052)
1257255	2012-02-04 20:18:00	Well done for trying. You must have been flying from the old Bell Block field. On my epic solo cross country, I remember flying over Stratford in rain under low cloud at about 150 feet and following the railway line into Bell Block ... Yes, Bell Block, a busy little airport in those days, all grass strips too. They had a very active Aero Club. I had to give up the flying, too expensive! LL	lakewoodlady (103)
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