Masterton and back

I was not expecting to fly today, but when the opportunity came up to head over to Masterton with another pilot and to fly back, I decided to take it. We headed over in Wellington Aero Club's Piper PA28-161, ZK-MBG.

Masterton itself is is a "large" rural town about 45 minutes flight time [in a light aircraft] to the north-east of Wellington and is a great place to visit for often un-congested skies, a nice airfield and with the possibility of seeing some fairly exotic aircraft from time to time. Nothing exotic was seen today but it was a nice flight anyway.

Photos are [top to bottom]the Rimutaka Ranges [including the Rimutaka Hill Rd] as we crossed towards Masterton, a couple of Masterton aerodrome as we joined to circuit and one of the aircraft. The final photo is of a Cessna 172S, ZK-NAV, registered to Nelson Aviation College, which was visiting Wellington.