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Two "new" aircraft 25 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
Two more aircraft to photograph today. The first is a Grumman American GA-7 Cougar, ZK-CGR, which is newly resident in Wellington [previously the North Shore Aero Club]. I have photographed this aircr...
Admin: Rodney's Aviation Ramblings updated to include Flightradar24.com data! 24 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
This post is to advise that Rodney's Aviation Ramblings has been updated to include a new "Flight Radar" page! The "Flight Radar" page uses the Flightradar24.com service to display ADS-B equipped tra...
A "vintage" Cessna 172E & night flying 24 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
Today's visitor is a Cessna 172E, ZK-OMR, registered to the Marlborough Aero Club [based at Omaka aerodrome]. The aircraft was first registered in New Zealand in December 2012 after being imported fro...
The world's shortest commercial flight? 15 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
Quite possibly it is! Watch this video from Matt Dearden's excellent Bush Flying Diaries, Indonesia blog, one of my favourite blogs, and well worth a video if you're into aviation, especially bush fl...
A Cheyenne and a Diamond 11 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am
Today was dull and gloomy and this afternoon it started raining... so no VFR [Visual Flight Rules] flying to speak of today. There were two visitors of note - an Australian registered Piper PA42-1000...
Mount Cook ATR72 10 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Prior to today's flight, I took another photo of one of the new Mount Cook/ Air NZ ATR72-600's, ZK-MVA, in the awesome All Black livery. If you want to see a number of stunning photos of the other AT...
Another day detached from the ground :-) 10 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am
I wasn't planning on it, but I got to go and get current flying the Club's PA28-161, ZK-MBG, today. I've had a couple of recent dual flights [one daytime, one night time flight] so this was a chance t...
RNZAF C130H Hercules 3 Aug 2013 | 12:18 pm
Today was a bit quiet, but I did see [initially hear!] This Royal New Zealand Air Force [RNZAF] Lockheed C130H Hercules, NZ7004. It was lightly loaded on departure [in so far as a full load of passeng...
Night flying this evening! 28 Jul 2013 | 02:26 pm
Earlier this week I was asked if I wanted to go night flying on the weekend. Somewhat surprisingly :-) the weather turned out really good and so tonight I got my chance to get my night rating underway...
Another Massey Diamond 28 Jul 2013 | 01:53 pm
Just a very quick post this time... there's a reason which you'll see in the next post. Today's visitor was this Massey University School of Aviation Diamond DA40, ZK-MTH. Unlike its counterpart from...
