gtw
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by gtw on Dec 13, 2016 17:40:37 GMT 12
In Jan 1970 I ferried FU24 VH-EOF with 3 pax from Perth to Sydney via Melbourne, 9 fuel stops and 3 over nights. Changed pilots and bought a C182 back. Needed ear plugs needed.
Ferry time 20hrs
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 22, 2017 22:26:51 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 15:12:09 GMT 12
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Post by delticman on Oct 17, 2017 6:28:24 GMT 12
Watch Flight Aware before 11am, Fletcher VH-HVP is flying from Melbourne to Queenstown It was ZK-EUA in another life.
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Post by craig on Oct 17, 2017 11:30:32 GMT 12
Who's it coming in for
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 17, 2017 15:53:11 GMT 12
Be one of those geo physical anti magnetic ones with the big stinger out the back isn't it?.
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Post by delticman on Oct 17, 2017 16:29:20 GMT 12
Be one of those geo physical anti magnetic ones with the big stinger out the back isn't it?. Was, but arrived in Queenstown with a hopper this morning. Watch out for MRC blog sometime soon. Ray |
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 20, 2017 6:46:35 GMT 12
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Post by Dave.K on Oct 20, 2017 19:18:09 GMT 12
See in the top photo, the children are walking to the house not at all interested in the happenings over the fence...sign of the times!!
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Post by johnm on Oct 21, 2017 9:21:44 GMT 12
what would now be the chances of pulling up in a car ............ speaking to the loader driver ............ waiting for refueling .......... speaking to pilot ............... then bludging a half hour sitting in the passenger seat ?
I get the impression with the big companies (aerospread and superair) this is probably not company policy ?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 21, 2017 10:06:22 GMT 12
OSH would surely not allow that?
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 21, 2017 11:22:08 GMT 12
Its all 'elf 'n' safety these days...as the sign in the loaders window says.  |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 21, 2017 11:30:07 GMT 12
Yep....back in the “good old days” I spent many hours cruising around New Zealand skies in the cockpits of NAC and Air NZ airliners because I was cheeky enough to ask if I could ride up there. That was before 9/11, after which the cockpit door got slammed firmly shut and locked.
And likewise, during those “good old days” before OSH, I traded a ride in a locomotive cab from Gisborne to Napier and back on passenger trains for a ride in the right-hand seat in the cockpit of the last top-dressing DC-3 (ZK-BBJ) in New Zealand while several loads of superphosphate was spread over the hills of the Waimata Valley near Gisborne.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 21, 2017 14:35:03 GMT 12
You'd need a bunch of indemnity forms signed and witnessed plus a H&S workplace induction process before they'd even let you sit in the thing.
Now back in the day when I and a few ATC mates bludged a ride in an RNZAF Sunderland at Hobsonville . . . .
Seats? What seats?
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Oct 21, 2017 17:25:28 GMT 12
Yep, half an hour in the cockpit of ZK-EGK with Ash, spreading lime, as a 15 year old who happened upon the back-of-Hunterville airstrip with Dad, is still burned indelibly in my memory. God I enjoyed that!
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Oct 21, 2017 17:27:05 GMT 12
See in the top photo, the children are walking to the house not at all interested in the happenings over the fence...sign of the times!! ...or, having skipped school and spent the day watching the Fletch over the fence, decided it's time to go home as the school bus just went by... |
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bae
Flying Officer
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Post by bae on Nov 16, 2017 22:26:25 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 10:35:47 GMT 12
I just wanted to pop in and say that my life has 100% more Fletcher activity now that I'm working in Wanganui: one lunchbreak this week I was overflown by one which I think was doing some training, then I heard the sweet sounds of an IO-720 fly over work yesterday arvo.
It's good to be home!
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Post by oj on Dec 14, 2017 21:25:49 GMT 12
Aha,so you also like the 1_5_8_3_2_6_7_4 chorus!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 8:45:25 GMT 12
I spent the first three years of my life living in the old Wanganui Commercial Pilots School so I literally had it drummed into me!
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