New Glider

**bobsmith** · 14th May 2006, 14:24

Damn I knew I shouldn't play the guess what aircraft this is.....

I just learnt to differentiate between A320 and 737 and they come to Palmy daily and I watch them take off and land all the time.

**Jantar** · 14th May 2006, 14:26

Try flying in Central Otago next time you're down this way. See http://www.cofc.co.nz/

**R6_kid:Me** · 15th May 2006, 10:23

terbang, by your type ratings i'd guess you either did some time in britain, or did you get those working with ansett/Air NZ back in the 80-90's?

**terbang** · 15th May 2006, 10:45

Originally Posted by gareth_d

terbang, by your type ratings i'd guess you either did some time in britain, or did you get those working with ansett/Air NZ back in the 80-90's?

Both actually,10 years with Ansett NZ and also 1 year with British Airways and another with Swiss Airlines.

**GNR** · 17th May 2006, 18:22

o o another pilot here, IM going for my CPL in chch,
doing some aerobatics soon

,

**Macktheknife** · 17th May 2006, 18:31

I am humbled I have only just started in gliders only done 3 flights, 2 up, but I can see how I might want to get into this more. I just need to find some more money, wifey says I should sell one of the bikes.... mutter mutter.

**bobsmith** · 17th May 2006, 19:35

Originally Posted by GNR

o o another pilot here, IM going for my CPL in chch,
doing some aerobatics soon

,

Cool, I was supposed to start on aerobatics before my CPL test but the school couldn't source an aerobatic aircraft and now I'm 10 months overdue for aeros, cant wait!!!, the school just sourced a Robin for aerobatics so it should be fun.

what have you been flying? I've been flying cherokees for last 150hours or so and just started flying the piper seneca V, will be doing my IFR rating on the seneca.

Ooohhh my type rating on a seneca V tomorrow... I'm getting nervous...

**GNR** · 18th May 2006, 18:45

im a cessna man, learnt on a C150, now i fly 152, and as much as i can the 172, Soon i'll be getting a ratin/check out on a 172 RG - retractable gear, oooooo, can wait to fly that.

Do u fly full time?

**bobsmith** · 18th May 2006, 21:33

I suppose sort of - I'm enrolled at Massey for their Aviation "degree"...

I wouldn't say too much in case someone from massey reads this but it's a big joke.

I think the flying training is to a fairly high standard, but the fact that they call it a "degree" is something I'm disgusted about... I used to atten a REAL university before I moved here due to their marketing... I should have known better than to fall to their marketing but at the moment it was the only place I could pay for my flight training with student loan.

**GNR** · 20th May 2006, 17:36

oh yer fair enough,
im not going to get a loan, i work full time mon-fri, then fly in the weekends at a good price.
oooo did some aerobatics todays, my face was in a perminant smile the rest of the day, was so much fun, can't wait for the next lesson

**marty** · 21st May 2006, 09:58

ooohh massey. still the topic of the month on pprune.....? there was a massey twin in parked up in nzhn yersterday.

would be nice to be jetting round. have to make do with aztecs and commanches atm. can't wait to get rated in my new toy though

and blue sky here today - maybe aeros before lunch

**bobsmith** · 21st May 2006, 10:06

Massey always seems to be on pprune, stopped reading there since, well, I think massey is shitty enough as it is and I don't wanna kill all of my spirits...

Oohhhhh your profile says Pitts Special??? Yummmm

**Jantar** · 21st May 2006, 11:27

You can all have your Aztecs, Commanches and even your Pitts. I'm heading out of here for an hour or two in a PW5 before i have to submit myself to the back seat of the Twin Astir for the rest of the afternoon.

**bobsmith** · 21st May 2006, 11:35

Damn you lucky bugger...

Yeah, I would much rather be flying something with one or more stupid propulsion engine on it... The only gliding experience I've ever had is when I encountered a lee wave action in a cherokee and I had the power completely closed to idle with the nose down to just below yellow line and still climbing at 700ft/min... DOH!!!!! Luckly the controller on ohakea control was feeling nice that day.

Now only if I was out that day on a glider......

was going to have a look at the gliding club yesterday but my day sorta got all stuffed up and was stuck running errands all day...

**marty** · 21st May 2006, 14:11

so terbang - you're on JNC/JNO et.al? some of them are getting pretty tired huh. worked in hngr 1 (off charlie 5) doing overnight checks on them, and did a month in chch doing a return to lease C check on a QF 733 that had to have over 300 hilocks pulled out of the wing for corrosion! i've seen the light though and have moved south - the commute was killing me.

still reckon the 73 is cooler than the bus though.

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