Omaka Trip # 1

I was planning to do a bit of strip training on Sunday, but unfortunately weather and planning conspired to prevent that from happenning.

It was good enough to go flying though, and despite 20-30 knots on the ground, with a reasonably strong north-west flow upstairs, we jumped in our Cessna 172 [ZK-ETK] and headed off to Omaka. Omaka is west of Wellington and so it was a slow trip there, but fairly quick on the way back.

Once at Omaka I pulled off a fairly good landing and parked up at the aero club.

Photos from the flight [next post will contain more] are:

Cessna 172N, ZK-ETK, Wellington Aero Club
Cessna 172S, ZK-SAN, Soundsair Ltd
[this is the same aircraft I used for my Avskills strip flying course back in January. Click here.]
Robinson R44, ZK-HDD, Skyline Helicopters Ltd
Cessna 150D, ZK-CHM, Soundsair Ltd
Piper PA38-112 Tomahawk, ZK-EIY, registered to a Blenheim address
Piper PA18A-150 Super Cub, ZK-ERB, Marlborough Aero Club

Omaka for lunch: Aug 2009: #2

After a quick bite to eat at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, we headed back to our aircraft for the flight back to Wellington. Before taking off, I snapped photos of a few of the aircraft that happenned to be there - mostly visitors in this case.

Here they are, top to bottom:

Piper PA28-180, ZK-DFL, registered to Kapiti Aero Club
Cessna 172N, ZK-KAS, also of Kapiti Aero Club
Hughes 369HS, ZK-HER, of Cloudy Bay Helicopters
Nanchang CJ6, ZK-JQS, of Omaka Real Flying Club
Falconar F-12, ZK-DBI, registered at a Rolleston based syndicate
General picture of the flightline back towards the Marlborough Aero Club hanger and clubrooms, including Piper PA38-112, ZK-EIY, registered to a Blenheim based owner