New Zealand's Newest Corsair Pilot

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Congratulations to all the newly-minted pilots, and bravo to Mike and his team!

[Dave Homewood]

Well done to Dean Beverley for also gaining his Corsair rating. Top work!

[l29]

I'd say well done to the owner for letting people use his machine, a example for others to follow!

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Hear hear Jared! It's terrific to see.

For those who aren't on Facebook, the training programme run by Frank Parker has resulted in the following pilots gaining Corsair ratings (my sincerest and humblest apologies if I've forgotten anyone):
Dean Beverley
Dave Brown
Bevan Dewes
Pete McCombe
Liz Needham (possibly the only female Corsair pilot worldwide?)
Sean Perrett
Ryan Southam

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Turns out there was one more: this was posted by Mike Jones this evening!!

We did indicate that our Corsair Rating program had finished but we had one special Rating underway!
Today we celebrate Graham Bethell, our long serving warbirds Mustang pilot has earning his Corsair rating.
Almost 80 years ago today Grahams father Francis Peter Bethell got his Corsair rating.
His father was as 1 of about 1000 pilots seconded to the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm serving in combat in Fairy Fulmars, wildcats and Hellcats serving 3 combat tours on carriers before being rated in the Corsair while serving as an instructor at RNAS Yeovilton.
Special thaanks to Frank Parker for managing our Corsair Rating program.
NZ Warbirds Association Inc
Classic Flyers NZ

[ozfuryfan]

Zac, Judy Pay has a Corsair rating here in Oz, she flew the Hoskings dash 5 FAH 603 a few years ago, great to see so many ratings in NZ recently!

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Ah! Good catch! Thank you.