Sunday, September 15, 2013

Local flight to Palliser Bay and Castlepoint

Yesterday the weather was fantastic, today not quite so good. Today was windier but it was good enough today that I could go for a local flight to Palliser Bay and around to Castlepoint with Megan and Matiu along for the ride. Today's aircraft was the Aero Club's Piper PA28-161, ZK-MBG.

We had a brisk southerly, but that was no problem since we were able to stay south of most hills and so missed the bumps. This was a big bonus because the only sick bags on board were clear plastic bags, and I was not wanting to see any stomach contents... In the end nobody needed to use one of the bags, so that's a good result :-)

I didn't take any photos of the flight, but Megan has kindly sent me some of hers. The first is a certain cool dude, all suited up in a lifejacket and about to get on board, approaching Turakirae Head on the way back and lastly, big smiles at the end of the flight!

BTW - best question of the day... "Do we have parachutes?". Sorry, but no...




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