What a busy day today! After getting out to the aero club around midday, I got in 3 Young Eagles flights with 3 passengers on each flight. Two of the flights were up to the Hutt Valley and the third to the south-west coastline.
After that, I took 3 club members [students] on a ride over to Omaka where a number of other club members were having some fun with competitions. On arrival, I realised that I had left my camera back in Wellington [DOH!] so no photos, but fun none-the-less.
All of these flights were in Cessna 172 ZK-FLT.
It was a perfect day for flying - hardly a bump anywhere, although the wind changed quite a bit. The first YE flight took off on runway 34 with a landing 0.4 hours later on runway 16. For the trip to Omaka we took off and landed back again on runway 16, although only just, with a change of runway about a minute later [seems that some Boeing pilots are not keen on 10 knot tailwinds... and understandably so I suppose].
All in all, a fun day of flying. 1.4 hours with the Young Eagles, 1.3 to Omaka and back.
Just a shame about the lack of a camera :-(
4 comments:
Next time you're flying to Omaka, remember to get your camera a return ticket. Seems to be a recurrent problem!
:-) I had just survived the YE flights.. maybe my brain was a little fried??? ha ha ha!
Do you normally charge the young eagles their share of the flight, or do you do it for free?
Hi Aaron,
It varies. First flight for a new YE is "free". Sometimes they get "free" flights because of help they provide around the club, such as on our open day.
Other times the YEs cost share.
Either way it is good to encourage the YEs into aviation.
[oh yeah... "free" in quotes - either the YE cost shares or the PIC pays all :-)]
Cheers!
Rodney
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