Gareth's Southern Odyssey (1)

I met Gareth Arscott and his wife at Kaipara Flats airfield last year, when they popped in to see some flying that was going on.  Gareth is a very keen aircraft photographer who mainly posts on Flicker, and I introduced him to the NZ Civair blog.  From Auckland Gareth and his wife flew to Queenstown and then proceeded to visit many aerodromes in the South:

A flight up onto the Tasman Glacier from Mt Cook Airfield is a true bucket list experience, and Gareth flew up there on 16/11/24 in Inflite Ltd's Pilatus PC 6 Turbo Porter ZK-MCN painted with Mt Cook Helicopters and Ski Planes titles.

 

There was an interesting sky up in the Southern Alps.

Then the flight back to Mt Cook Airfield was in Inflite's AS 350 B2 Squirrel ZK-HBT5.

Thanks for the photos Gareth (and for those to come).