CANCELLED - Black Sands Fly-In at Te Kowhai

[Dave Homewood]

Due to Covid restrictions and ongoing uncertainty around events in our region, the SAA Waikato Committee has decided to postpone the Black Sands Fly In originally scheduled for November 13 and 14.

It has been rescheduled to the weekend of
12th and 13th February 2022
At Te Kowhai Airfield.

This will allow time for the Covid situation to improve and also the situation around access to Raglan Airfield, as we still want to include fly-aways there in the programme. The chosen weekend has good tides to allow beach flying on Saturday afternoon if conditions allow.

We appreciate the enthusiastic support of Te Kowhai Airfield Ltd in making this possible. More details will be published nearer to the revised date.

[Bruce]

the Info pack for this event can now be downloaded here:

drive.google.com/file/d/19AE92V8wW7bsviNTT1fz-Jd7Nhlu_BnO/view?usp=sharing

The programme includes:

• CAA Seminar on ADS-B and Subsidies.
• The famous Beach landing workshop
• Food Truck lunches
• Saturday Evening Barbecue - With drinks supplied!
• General Knowledge Teams Quiz Night
• General fly-arounds exploring the area.

We would invite all aviators to come and enjoy this weekend at a very "Recreational Aircraft-Friendly" rural airfield. Camping is available "under the wing" or in the Motorhome park. You are welcome to arrive on Friday afternoon.
Avgas is available on site.

To help the organisers plan and to advise if there are any changes or cancellations, we encourage people to complete the pre-registration online form here: forms.gle/L36uN7wHwpZrgAkE8
We look forward to welcoming all aviators to Te Kowhai!

[Peter Lewis]

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend this year.
My plan to ensure that as many event dates as possible clash seems to be working well.

[Bruce]

Sadly, with the change to RED level in the Covid framework, the Waikato Chapter Committee has made the decision to cancel the Black Sands Fly-In at Te Kowhai scheduled for February 12th and 13th. The intention is to hold the 2022 event at the traditional time in early November, circumstances permitting. The programme should be based on the existing plans, so it should still be a great event to come to. We look forward to seeing you there in November.