The lovely weather over the country due to the mid-winter high also attracted several members of the Northern Aviators Club for lunch to Pauanui yesterday. Neil Wright had a spare seat in his Allegro 2000 ZK-DCU and so we set off just after 10am from Kaipara Flats airfield in spectacular conditions. We headed in a fairly direct course around the Eastern tip of Waiheke Island and across the Firth of Thames - that is a lot of over water flight but as usual the Rotax didn't miss a beat. It was the first time I had flown into Pauanui and it is very scenic:
Downwind around the Tairua Hill, which I see is actually Mt Paku with Pauanui behind.
Then line up on Runway 25 over the beach. I had arranged with Richard Currie and it was nice to catch up with him briefly. I guess all the aircraft there were old hat to him but it was nice for me to see some different aircraft that had flown in for lunch.
Bill Izard had flown up from Taupo in his Falco ZK-TBD in 37 minutes!
It was the first time I had seen Gary Thorne's RV 12 ZK-VGT, up from Rotorua.
It is a while since I have seen a Tecnam Astore, and we only have 3 of them. Here ZK-RGH in spectacular metallic blue.
And the highlight of the day! A Jodel, being Barry Divehall's D 11 ZK-KCD up from Tauranga.
Thanks for the great flights Neil.
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