I have only been up the Desert Road corridor once before, so it was good to see it again. Last time was clear skies. This time we flew up and back down with a bit more cloud and a bit of rain, although neither of them affected the flights.
It's a magic flight along this corridor, squashed between pieces on military airspace over the Waiouru training area, although I wouldn't want to be here in low cloud or poor visibility! In these first two photos, it's only the tops of the mountains that are obscured. The corridor itself was quite ok.
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| Mount Ruapehu |
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| Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Tongariro |
A few nautical miles north of the Desert Road corridor is the town of
Turangi. There is a small grass airfield [ICAO designator is NZTN] just
out of town, as shown in the following photo. I haven't been in there yet - maybe another day.
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| NZTN - Turangi airfield |
The ultimate destination for this flight [prior to returning to Wellington] was Taupo airport. The pilot who flew up and another passenger picked up a Piper PA38-112 for the return trip and I got to fly the Cessna 172N, ZK-EKE home.
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| NZAP - Taupo airport |
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