Saturday, October 15, 2016

Traumahawk time

After 5.5 years [!!], I finally got back into a left hand seat of a Piper PA38-112 Tomahawk for a quick dual flight. The flight consisted of a flight out to the southern Wairarapa area, for some stalls, turns, a simulated forced landing then back for a couple of circuits. Throw in a surface breeze gusting up to 30 knots with a bit of crosswind at times, it was a lot of fun and a good workout after so many years of not flying this type.

Technically I need to do a few solo circuits to be considered current, but that can wait for another day [the weather was not flash in the circuit]. Anyway, here's a picture of ZK-TAW after it was parked up in the hanger after the flight.

Piper PA38-112 Tomahawk, ZK-TAW, operated by Wellington Aero Club

3 comments:

  1. Cool! You been gone a while !!

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  2. Flew some of my Ab Initio training in TAW in Napier, back in the mid 90's. Nice to see it's still going strong!

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