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Post by Brett on Aug 21, 2014 12:37:58 GMT 12
The Pither replica from the Croydon Aircraft Company will be attending.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 21, 2014 20:38:26 GMT 12
Hood Aerodrome Masterton 16, 17, 18 January 2015
Wellington Anniversary Weekend
10 Days Left for Earlybird Tickets Use the code Wings2015 at Ticket Direct by the 1st September to get your 15% Earlybird Discount on tickets. We've made a few announcements regarding the programme for 2015 and we'll be announcing more in the next few newsletters. It's safe to say that with confirmation of the replica 1910 Pither Monoplane and the RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aviation Systems) trade show you'll certainly get the opportunity to "Experience 100 Years of Aviation". -------------------------------------------------------------------------  10 Days Left to Buy Earlybird Tickets Use the code Wings2015 at Ticket Direct to get your 15% Early Bird Discount on Tickets. Offer ends 1st September 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------  Wings on Social Media We're a social bunch at Wings Over Wairarapa and you can join us on Facebook, Twitter and soon on Instagram. #wings2015 and #wingsoverwairarapa --------------------------------------------------------------------------  Awards Success We are excited to announce that Wings Over Wairarapa 2013 won the Vibrant Gold Category of the Wellington Gold Awards for best Wellington Event. We beat out stiff competition from many other fantastic Wellington events including Beervana and AMI Round the Bays. Congratulations to the entire team involved and to all of you who came to the show and contributed to its success. Thanks also to Wellington Airport for sponsoring the award. --------------------------------------------------------------------------  Pukaha Mount Bruce Show your Wings Family ticket at Pukaha Mount Bruce, National Wildlife Centre between now and the 23rd Jan and two kids go free. Pukaha is New Zealand's most successful wildlife and captive breeding centre. Located 20 minutes north of Masterton and approximately 1.5 hours north of Wellington, it's also home to Manukura the little white kiwi. *You can go as many times as you like from now until the 23rd Jan 2015 with a paying adult. --------------------------------------------------------------------------  Corporate Tables Wings Over Wairarapa is the perfect opportunity to host your clients and colleagues. See our corporate flyer for options for a totally unique entertainment experience. Email Sara Orsborn for more information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Market Village We have a variety of trade, aviation, food and wine village sites available to those interested in showcasing their products at Wings Over Wairarapa 2015. We already have a fantastic range of sites coming but still have some covered and uncovered spaces available. Sites are limited and demand will be high after the successful 2013 Show when we hosted over 24,000 visitors. For further information email Sally Barrett our trade site coordinator. --------------------------------------------------------------------------  Sponsors & Partners Welcome back to Trust House, The Dominion Post and The Hits Radio Station who have all returned as Gold Sponsors for 2015. We have such a fantastic range of sponsors and partners and we couldn't run Wings without them. You can find out more about all our sponsors here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For all general enquiries: Event Manager: Jenny Gasson Phone: +64 (0)22 090 3864 Postal Address PO Box 450 Masterton, New Zealand |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Aug 21, 2014 21:31:28 GMT 12
There's a possibility I won't be at Wings Over Wairarapa 2015.
It's a peak time of the year for annual leave and I've normally not jumped in over a year ahead to book leave for that time of year, tending to leave it for workmates who have school-age kids, especially as I always grab Easter (and a week or two either side of it) every year, which usually means I'm grabbing school holidays time.
Last Wings Over Wairarapa coincided with a four-day Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday rostered long-weekend off (we get every third weekend off in that manner), so for the first time ever I purchased a Gold Pass and went to all three days. Usually I just take a lieu day off on the Sunday and go to the airshow on one day only. That is what I was planning to do next year; however my boss has decided to be a prick about things and refuse to grant me that single lieu day off, claiming that some of my outstanding lieu days have been sitting there for three years or more, so why should he give me that day off, then have overtime come out of his wages budget to pay another driver to work on penal rates on a day off to cover me. In the past, annual leave and lieu days off were authorised by locomotive crew rostering staff in Auckland, but now it all has to be approved by one's rail operating manager.
Well stuff him....if he is going to take that attitude, then I'll just leave those lieu days parked there accumulating at the rate of 8 days or more a year. After all, they are like money in the bank, increasing in value year by year as my hourly rate of pay goes up with pay rises, so I WILL get paid for them eventually and it WILL cost the company a lot more, and be a liability on their books in the meantime, something the bean counters are always screaming about. Two can play his stupid game....I'll continue to put in for leave in blocks of a week or two (or three) more than a year ahead, and sometimes up to two years ahead (he hates that) to get the annual leave I really want, and I'll just let the lieu days build up to a few months worth, and let the bean counters put the heat on my boss over it.
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Post by ErrolC on Aug 21, 2014 21:47:02 GMT 12
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Post by Mustang51 on Aug 22, 2014 8:42:42 GMT 12
Kiwithrottlejockey, I understand just what you are saying there. Had the same problem a few years ago wanting one day off which was refused then putting in for enghteen months Long Service to cover that day.... strangely the single day was granted! Fortunately now my Wings trip is locked in as is Omaka due the fact that my new boss is aviation fanatic. Looks like Wings is starting to come together. I know Tom, John and the boys and girls there do a fantastic job and the place has a great "feel" about it.
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Post by scrooge on Aug 22, 2014 9:57:30 GMT 12
Interesting thing accumulated days in lieu, when my mother left her work she had so much owing to her that it showed up as a note in that years financial accounts as a liability (to the business). Keep going KTJ, you too could get an honourable mention.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Aug 22, 2014 15:32:42 GMT 12
Over the past few years, quite a few of my workmates have put in for leave, then after being knocked back have told the company they now have a choice....“either grant the leave or watch me f*ck off overseas”, whereupon the company has tended to back down due to the severe operating staff shortages, and the fact that those rail operating staff shortages are world-wide. One workmate in Wellington accumulated 5½-months of annual leave and lieu days, then told the company that either they let him take the whole lot in one hit, or he would hand in his notice and have it paid out, whereupon he would go and work for another rail company overseas. He got his 5½-months of leave in one hit, although it caused big problems for the rest of us.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 22, 2014 17:39:44 GMT 12
Puts grumpy old fart hat on . . .
Isn't interesting how those who rejoice when they (or someone else) plays hardball with their employer, forcing them to back down, yelp like a smacked dog and howl unfair when their employer does something similar to them.
. . . takes grumpy old fart hat back off.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 22, 2014 17:41:05 GMT 12
Meanwhile, back to discussing the airshow....
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Post by Mustang51 on Aug 27, 2014 9:27:18 GMT 12
All booked and ready to go.... what do you mean its not till January? Guessing that there shall be some sort of meeting there of the forumites and hopefully I can get some space to attend.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 27, 2014 17:27:41 GMT 12
I would really like to have some sort of evening gathering, not just to meet up with people but also to mark 10 years of the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum (the anniversary of which falls on February 26th, 2015, so close enough).
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Post by suthg on Aug 27, 2014 19:56:21 GMT 12
So if there is something like 15-20 people, it would be good to have a room to ourselves so long as there is no charge for running the bar service in that room. I know our Tokoroa Club here in town provides someone out of the general bar staff in that situation, also provided we have a meal at same venue - and yes, it would be great if Ando could join us!! KWTJ may be able to suggest a place? The Horseshoe Tavern Steak Bar is under restoration at the moment but would be crowded and noisy with plenty of Jo Public if it was open again.
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Post by Mustang51 on Aug 29, 2014 8:42:23 GMT 12
Many thanks for the kind invitation. Hopefully I can get some time as the prep etc soaks up quite a lot of it beforehand with last minute changes, background stuff etc. All we can now hope for is good weather from Thursday to Monday morning. Tom and John are flat out with their final arrangements and it should be e great show even without the Moz. In my mind's eye I can still see that machine in that beautiful curved bank around the commentary box !
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Post by haughtney1 on Sept 5, 2014 17:14:26 GMT 12
Hey Guys, I'm after suggestions as to where to stay (within an hours drive on the day) I'm toying with the idea of trying to see 2 of the 3 days of the show. Likely I will fly into AKL and then hop on a domestic flight to WLG and drive from there, any other suggested methods of transport, or perhaps easier ways of getting down to Masterton? and perhaps what will be the better days? All of course subject to leave etc etc but any suggestions gratefully received :-)
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Post by suthg on Sept 5, 2014 23:39:27 GMT 12
The Marquis of Normanby Hotel in Carterton was a classic night's accommodation - 90 years old and often the RNZAF Heli ground and flight crews stay there including the Seasprite boys and gals. There is a nice breakfast restaurant 50m down the road and some steak houses around too. Only 15mins from Hood. Small rooms for $90 but as I said, a bit of a classic and right on the main street on a corner. It wasn't booked out when wife and I booked in January last year. I could be staying there again next year, although my passenger this time says he has something ok in Masterton. www.staynewzealand.co.nz/snz/index.php?id=258Their own website appears to be down.  |
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 6, 2014 7:46:50 GMT 12
Hey Guys, I'm after suggestions as to where to stay (within an hours drive on the day) I'm toying with the idea of trying to see 2 of the 3 days of the show. Likely I will fly into AKL and then hop on a domestic flight to WLG and drive from there, any other suggested methods of transport, or perhaps easier ways of getting down to Masterton? and perhaps what will be the better days? All of course subject to leave etc etc but any suggestions gratefully received :-) Google says Upper Hutt is an hour's drive from Masterton. Assuming you don't want to drive over the hill more often than you need to, I'll leave it to locals to suggest places in the Wairarapa. Don't forget the dedicated trains for the airshow ex-Welly, especially if you end up with a single day visit only. Google now automatically suggests train/bus and flight options when you asks for directions. When I was checking driving times in relation to getting down for the TVAL Weekend shows, it helpfully suggested flying to Paraparam and driving from there! Pity the flight takes longer than AKL-WLG, let alone the drive! |
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Post by haughtney1 on Sept 9, 2014 19:45:11 GMT 12
Thanks guys, now all that needs to happen is that I get the leave I asked for, the missus is happy for me to disappear for 5 days…..and it doesn't rain! What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by nuuumannn on Sept 11, 2014 13:24:09 GMT 12
Classic! Q: What happens when you spay a cat? A: it's backside gets bigger and it slows down. Q: what happens when you Spey a Phantom? A: it's backside gets bigger and it slows down! Errol, all this is true, but you know this whole thing at the airshow is going to give the press and public so much joy. You know as well as the rest of us that the New Zealand public wants to believe what has been said about Pearse sooooo badly, that these things are going to crop up ad nauseum and the debate will continue forever.  |
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Post by baz62 on Sept 11, 2014 16:50:50 GMT 12
Errrr what?  |
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Post by TS on Sept 20, 2014 13:48:43 GMT 12
Ok on the flyer for the 2015 air show there is a picture of the P40 in RNZAF livery  Is that an artists impression or is she going to appear this summer looking like that... Hope so.  |
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