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Post by oj on Mar 20, 2016 21:01:20 GMT 12
I hope this not just a wind-up over a Kava ceremony.
Or a chewing sugar-cane buzz.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 31, 2016 19:13:11 GMT 12
Tauranga woman achieves pilot firstPosted at 1:36pm Thursday 31 Mar, 2016 Tauranga Flight Lieutenant Penny Khull is the first woman to qualify as an NH90 pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Penny, who is currently deployed in Fiji, says that seeing Fijian children waving and shaking hands with grateful villagers through the cockpit window of the New Zealand Defence Force's NH90 medium utility helicopter are among the highlights of her deployment so far.  Flight Lieutenant Penny Khull, the first female to qualify as an NH90 pilot in the RNZAF. (Photo: Supplied) “This is the first time I've been deployed on an operation overseas. It has been a great learning experience as I haven't operated in these conditions before with heavy loads and a very humid climate,” she says. “The children waving at us and villagers shaking my hand through the cockpit window after we deliver aid to their communities make this deployment pretty memorable for me. It also gives me a reality check of what we are here for.” A long-time dream for Penny, she says she was hooked on the idea of being a pilot since a young age. “For my sixteenth birthday, my two sisters bought me a trial flight on a Cessna, and I loved it and have been hooked since then.” An alumna of Tauranga's Otumoetai College, Penny qualified for the RNZAF University Scheme and enlisted in February 2010 after completing her degree in management studies at Waikato University. Penny says the RNZAF training gave all students equal opportunities to complete it and fulfil their potential, and she encourages young women to follow their dream and not overlook a career in aviation. “I never felt that I was treated differently and the training was no easier or harder because I'm female. Like everyone else, I worked hard to get the results. “The best advice I can give is just go for it. You never know what you can do until you give it a shot.” www.sunlive.co.nz/news/122938-tauranga-woman-achieves-pilot-first.html
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 31, 2016 19:14:19 GMT 12
I reckon it must be a revelation to the Fijian children to see a female pilot flying a big helicopter, great stuff for sure.
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Post by beagle on Mar 31, 2016 21:19:27 GMT 12
I reckon its a revelation to find something modern, well post 1960's in Cambridge
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 2, 2016 13:40:00 GMT 12
Beagle, you've become the typical insular one-eyed Cantabrian?
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Post by beagle on Apr 3, 2016 19:15:40 GMT 12
never, just an Otagorite living in rolleston
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 6, 2016 19:21:55 GMT 12
The NH-90s are still in Fiji. Has Canterbury returned yet? I know that HMAS Canberra has.
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Post by isc on Apr 6, 2016 21:23:38 GMT 12
They better tie them down, this cyclone is up to 3 now, but there has been a lot of rain. isc
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 6, 2016 21:30:23 GMT 12
If the hangar (?, maybe a warehouse?) is pulled apart, how much is tying them down going to help?
The Facebook caption mentions putting containers across the doors.
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Post by TS on Apr 6, 2016 22:24:54 GMT 12
Easy come easy Goooooo for that lot if it does.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 6, 2016 23:35:56 GMT 12
Huh? There's another storm there??
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 7, 2016 6:17:00 GMT 12
Yes, although it seems to have gone past to the south now.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 7, 2016 8:03:32 GMT 12
OK.
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 7, 2016 18:18:26 GMT 12
And back in use.
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