Saturday afternoon saw the regular navaid inspection activities being undertaken at Wellington.
At it's simplest, it appears the navaid inspection involves checking that navaids are calibrated correctly, using an aircraft, in this case a Piper PA-42-1000 Cheyanne, appropriately registered ZK-FIS and registered to the Airways Corporation of New Zealand [provider of all ATC and AFIS/ FIS services in New Zealand].
Inspection runs consist of a number of approaches testing different navaids and appear to all be conducted at fairly high speed and definitely not configured for landing... 😀 Looks like fun times for the crew, although I imagine hard [and exacting] work also!
I'd be very keen to find out more, so if anyone who has any first-hand knowledge of this if happy to provide some details, I'd be keen to hear from you. Perhaps I could put up a post providing more details of this essential calibration service.
Anyway, here are a couple of photos on ZK-FIS as it overshoots after an inspection run.
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| Piper PA-42-1000 Cheyanne, ZK-FIS, registered to Airways Corporation of NZ |
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| Piper PA-42-1000 Cheyanne, ZK-FIS, registered to Airways Corporation of NZ |
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Super aircraft, spent time watching it fly past my house and get shots as it did. Love the sound too!
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