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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 28, 2023 13:01:53 GMT 12
Sounds good George, keep me up to date please.
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Post by planewriting on Jan 28, 2023 16:12:18 GMT 12
George, I am intrigued by your wish to get a flight in the DC-3 to Whanganui. Air Chathams has a DC-3 (ZK-AWP) and they do operate scheduled flights on their timetable to Whanganui but they do not do scheduled DC-3 flights to Whanganui. Could you elaborate?
Auckland Airport should be back to normal services by tomorrow. Yesterday's weather event was like none other experienced at Mangere and matters were not helped by the damage to lights by a landing aircraft the same day. On that basis I'm pretty confident it will be business as usual when you arrive in New Zealand.
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Post by gtw on Jan 29, 2023 15:18:01 GMT 12
George, I am intrigued by your wish to get a flight in the DC-3 to Whanganui. Air Chathams has a DC-3 (ZK-AWP) and they do operate scheduled flights on their timetable to Whanganui but they do not do scheduled DC-3 flights to Whanganui. Could you elaborate? Auckland Airport should be back to normal services by tomorrow. Yesterday's weather event was like none other experienced at Mangere and matters were not helped by the damage to lights by a landing aircraft the same day. On that basis I'm pretty confident it will be business as usual when you arrive in New Zealand. |
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Post by gtw on Jan 29, 2023 15:41:31 GMT 12
Very simple I flew DC3 VHMMM at West Australia 1965 to Dec 1966. Interesting trips like Perth to Port Hedland. Leave at 8pm with two stops and one night
thru a thunder storm for 2 hours. Log book says 2hrs IFR and total of6hrs night. I have read a book (Fate is Hunter) We arrived at Port Hedland about 3am.
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Post by delticman on Jan 29, 2023 15:46:39 GMT 12
Very simple I flew DC3 VHMMM at West Australia 1965 to Dec 1966. Interesting trips like Perth to Port Hedland. Leave at 8pm with two stops and one night thru a thunder storm for 2 hours. Log book says 2hrs IFR and total of6hrs night. I have read a book (Fate is Hunter) We arrived at Port Hedland about 3am. If you had come down from Auckland yesterday, it would have been in an ATR-72. Chat's do flexible very well. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2023 18:33:48 GMT 12
George, I am intrigued by your wish to get a flight in the DC-3 to Whanganui. Air Chathams has a DC-3 (ZK-AWP) and they do operate scheduled flights on their timetable to Whanganui but they do not do scheduled DC-3 flights to Whanganui. Could you elaborate? I've heard chatter that she is coming down in February. |
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Post by gracecowper on Oct 1, 2023 19:17:49 GMT 12
Hi I am trying to find a number of veteran top dressing pilots and i found this thread most helpful If there anyone that can help me find the following pilots additional to the list above: John Barr Paul Fenton Ashley Haycock Brian Goodwin Charlie Anderson Ivan Olsen John Arends Mike Cronin Richard Cowper Peter Doyle Don Judd Don Sanders Sam Lourie Murray McFarlane Gary McNeil Brent Nottage Jim Reid Any help would be most appreciated, My dad is Richard Cowper - happy to answer any questions |
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