Various other movements

Along with the more "unusual" movements today, I captured a number of "run-of-the-mill" aircraft.

Top to bottom are:

Cirrus SR22, ZK-YUG
Air New Zealand Boeing 737-300, ZK-NGJ
Air Nelson Bombardier DHC-8, ZK-NEU
Polynesian Blue Boeing 737-800, ZK-PBF
Helilink Agusta A119, ZK-ITR

Wellington to Christchurch, return

I had a business trip to Christchurch today, and so [as usual] I took my camera along, just in case I saw something interesting. I flew on an Air New Zealand B737-300 to Christchurch and a Mount Cook Airline ATR72 from Christchurch back to Wellington.

Here are the [better of the] photos I got. The first is of a Polynesian Blue B737-800 at Wellington. It came out surpisingly clear considering it was shot through glass. The next are a few pictures of Wellington City as we climbed out - the Basin Reserve [can anyone advise why the Basin has rugby posts on it? I though only cricket was played there], WestpacTrust Stadium [aka the Cake Tin] and then looking back to Wellington [we took off on runway 34, right to left in this picture].

The last image was of the inside of the ATR72 this evening. Both trips were fairly uneventful apart from a little turbulance both ways, and one of the Mount Cook hosties trying to convince a dance troupe to give us a demo in flight [they did wave their arms around a bit and got a clap :-)]!

One thing that was reinforced again, is that it is sooooo hard to get a good picture whilst climbing at several hundred knots, with turbulance and cruddy aircraft perspex to shoot through :-(

(Thanks to ZKARJ for the correction to the original version of this post)

One of my favourite spots

Here are some pictures I took today of arrivals into Wellington from one of my favourite viewing locations, in Evans Bay. Evans Bay is at the northern end of the airfield and provides unobstructed views of the approach path [although no view of the landings or the departures - there are plenty of other good places for that!].

Here are some of the better photos I managed to snap. Top to bottom are:

Air New Zealand B737
Polynesian Blue [Pacific Blue] B737
Sounds Air Cessna Caravan
Air Chathams Convair

Polynesian Blue

Here's a picture of a Polynesian Blue [aka Virgin Blue] B737-800 taking off at Wellington today.