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Post by Ykato on Jun 10, 2013 14:54:58 GMT 12
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Post by Ykato on Jun 10, 2013 15:26:05 GMT 12
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Post by corsair67 on Jun 10, 2013 16:17:08 GMT 12
Yeah, airports and their flightpaths can be noisy places to live near - who'd have thunk???  A bit like motorways, schools, swimming pools, shopping centres, hospitals and other important community, transport and social meeting points: can we start complaining about those too? |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 10, 2013 17:00:09 GMT 12
"People will be feeling extremely distressed at the thought of it. We all live a quiet, rural lifestyle and never envisaged 100 helicopters a day. Helicopters are so noisy," the Paremoremo resident says"
Isn't Paremoremo a maximum security prison for the criminally insane?
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Post by ngatimozart on Jun 10, 2013 20:24:10 GMT 12
NIMBY syndrome. Not In My Back Yard.
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jun 10, 2013 22:03:10 GMT 12
An air base being used for aircraft. Completely unacceptable.
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Post by Eng on Jun 11, 2013 13:15:47 GMT 12
Well I guess they finally ceased night flying at Wigram! Took an earth quake to do it  :-0 |
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Post by Eng on Jun 11, 2013 13:16:15 GMT 12
Well I guess they finally ceased night flying at Wigram! Took an earth quake to do it :-0 |
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Post by TS on Jun 11, 2013 14:18:41 GMT 12
You know what REALLY PISSES me off!! When people go and build or buy a house near an Air Base or Civil Airfield. Then after about a year or two the brain cell must kick in and start to think that things are a little noisy. Well DUUUHHHHH Hello people wakeup!! For one the airfields/bases where there first with nobody around them,as it was for Whenuapai. Now I wonder how long it will be before the new residences of Hobsonville will start to complain about WP?  I had a mate that did just that at NE so he got what for from me. He finally saw my piont of few and shut up about it, he actually enjoys it now.  |
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Post by Eng on Jun 11, 2013 14:54:32 GMT 12
Haha . I know what its like . One only had to do a turn at Wigram in the ops room when night flying was on .
They would ring up and complain vociferously . The ops team even got to recognise the regular callers . When I was based at Hob and lived in West Ak my neighbour saw me over the fence me mowing my lawn after lunch and mentioned the fact that I seemed to get an awful lot of time off. I couldnt bite my tongue and asked him where the hell he was at 2 oclock that morning while I was out in the Tasman looking for some bloody idiot yachtsman who had activated his beacon accidently. These days when I hear a fisher man dragging his tinny across the shells down at the ramp I turn over and wait patiently for his out board to start. Age mellows :-)
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Post by raymond on Jun 11, 2013 21:36:25 GMT 12
I can recall a story I'm sure it was an Ozzie airbase. There was a local who was a bit of a thorn in the side always complaining to all sorts of people ESP about aircraft noise. He decided to sell up so the base cdr decided that his pilots needed to do some touch and go practice just when the auction was starting......
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 11, 2013 22:34:27 GMT 12
The same thing at Dunedin, when land at the end of the runway was being sold off for housing by the council the aero club ensured there were lots of aircraft in the circuit during the auction too.
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Post by conman on Jun 11, 2013 22:49:41 GMT 12
A few years ago we had one of the neighbours at our Airfield at Drury stand in front of our tow plane to try and stop us flying, complete nutter !
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Post by Eng on Jun 14, 2013 19:00:43 GMT 12
Perhaps its a good thing that there are people living next to airbases!!!!
The story goes that many years ago when Dakotas were flying out of Whenuapai ( remember those? ) A pilot was
briefed for night flying circuits. He was given a newbie navigator who had just arrived on squadron for his conversion.
It seems that he was still to learn his cockpit drills .
Apparently (so the story goes )the pilot elected to do a one engined approach and the nav duly feathered the enging.
So far so good . The pilot requested unfeathering and the poor nav feathered the remaining one resulting in a lack of lift.
The Dak put down in the mud and the aircrew climbed out on top. The pilot informing the nav as to his parentage.
The control topwer recievd a phone call from a civlian neighnour and was told that an airforce plane had crashed into the drink
off Herald ( Pine) Island.When she was asked how she knew it was an Air Force plane she replied that she could hear them swearing.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jun 15, 2013 10:12:48 GMT 12
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Post by camtech on Jun 15, 2013 10:23:22 GMT 12
True story!! Dakota NZ3549 (40 Sqdn) ditched near Hearald Is 16 November 1950 after single engine approach when operating engine was inadvertantly shut down.
Somewhere I have photos from NZ Weekly News. If i can lay my hands on them, I'll post them.
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Post by general on Jun 24, 2013 22:51:47 GMT 12
Pure gold.
Love these tales that highlight Service .. . errrmmm, idiosyncracies.
Cheers!
Ross
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jun 25, 2013 18:52:40 GMT 12
John King's book about NZ Aviation Tragedies (Accidents(?), I've got it here somewhere) covers that event, including pics of it semi-submerged.
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Post by pjw4118 on Jun 26, 2013 15:59:25 GMT 12
Back to the future, remember the rumours about Singapore F16s being based there. I live close by and would happily have them crack on their afterburners over the tree huggers in Greenhithe. They choose to build under the flight path so enjoy the noise boys . But thats not the logical approach these days . Build , complain and change for "my" sake,,,,,and they succeed. Look at the poor old speedway people at Western Springs.
Any way, one under used aerodrome with lots of space , ground and air , is Kaitaia. I bet their cash strapped economy would welcome the million a week a big flying school would bring in.
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Post by Ykato on Aug 23, 2013 15:18:36 GMT 12
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:-0
Great story!
