Saturday, January 05, 2013

Over the Wairarapa and a gyroplane

What a fantastic day today has been. The weather has been absolutely perfect with little wind and lots of sunshine. Too good to stay on the ground.

This morning I was invited to go along for a ride in the Club's Piper PA28-161, ZK-MBG, an offer which I happily took up. Kai and I headed off up the Hutt Valley to Masterton, stopping just long enough to pay the landing fee and then heading back to Wellington flying overhead Martinborough and the southern Wairarapa's Lake Onoke. A great trip to be sure. Of course, I was having so much fun that I didn't bother to take any photos...

On arrival back in Wellington, we parked up and then saw a Magni Gyro M-24 gyroplane, ZK-MWR, turn up. It would be extremely rare to see one of these aircraft at Wellington, and it was very interesting to see [photo below]. It turns out I last saw this aircraft in Wellington in June 2010.

Anyway, that's it for today, although it looks like another trip tomorrow with Kai, probably including Paraparaumu, Foxpine, Wanganui and Hawera or Stratford. All going well, there will be more details tomorrow evening!


4 comments:

Nicks BIGSKY Aviation said...

Go Stratford first then only 6 minutes to Hawera on the way home

Rodney said...

Yeah, maybe. It will likely come down to whether we have enough time...

Nicks BIGSKY Aviation said...

Watch for Gliders SD

Rodney said...

Thanks Nick. As it turns out, we only went up as far as WU, still a good day's flying :-)