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Shalom and greetings all my pals, Pete Ham, who is real life New Zealand pilot, is very very kind to take time from his busy schedule to look for his IRF charts from the past and found IRF charts for NZMC Mount Cook airport as seen below. Problem solved!! He said that doing an IFR approach to Mount Cook required a Glentanner/Mount Cook VOR/DME approach to MDA then proceed VFR 15.7nm to Mount Cook, or a Pukaki VOR/DME approach to MDA then proceed VFR 28nm to Mount Cook Regards, Aharon

Thanks for answers, FlyingKiwi Regards, Aharon

A very sweet looking machine. It seems to handle very well and is a steal at US$180K.

Fascinating stuff ....I love this place ! I've just learnt so much from a close up shot of prop contrails :bow:

It probably appears that it is solidly attached but it will be the master rod that you are observing. The other Conrods are called articulating rods and they attach to the base flanges of the master rod. It’s because you can’t have all of the conrods attached to the same crank journal individually (there is only one crank journal).

just a metre to the left, thanks, tail in :lol: HAHAHHA.... you've ruined the magik now tho :lol:

Yes, I mentioned on Facebook that if there's a small consolation it's that it's in the right place to get repaired at least!

And they also did this! Crikey what a bunch of lads...

Thanks Mike, didn't realise the Stealth Bomber would be noisy! I guess if you have the radar cross section of a small turkey it doesn't matter :) I used to have Caribous flying up my street at 500' AGL . Just a memory now, it's a solar panel farm these days How cool... and what a result

I've seen photos of old propliners transporting cattle in South America and they actually removed the passenger doors altogether and flew with them open. Only an option if you don't need pressurization of course! That is very interesting. Makes me wonder if DC-8-63F was going to cruise at 10,000 ft???? Anyway, the take off of DC-8 showed the doors closed Regards, Aharon

Well if it is up to me as Air New Zealand pilot, I would have .... what makes you think it was ever up to the Pilot, especially given it wasn't an emergency? I'd bet it was a pre-arranged commercial instruction

The Black Falcons practicing over New Brighton ...how to make spaghetti! :D Didn't know they were a Thing yet? I haven't followed them too well but certainly haven't seen them display.

Was just watching the girls at Hagley Oval yesty while we did the quality checks on the homebrew. No wonder Marty stayed in. I don't mind the heat, but the humidity is a killer, specially here, 90km inland, where we don't usually get it. ATB Mike

Thanks Mr B , some interesting times ahead. You will have to remove the wing centre section of the Herc. Don't think NZ roads would be wide enough !!

Great find Aharon, well done :rockon:

pS Aharon, found a copy of that B733 jumpseat post in the good old wayback machine doh duh doh duh doh why didn't I think of the web.archieve.org websit trick!!! Thanks for great report. I enjoyed it very much. I chuckled over the words "pilots spotted 737 size hole and flew through the hole in the clouds for sake of passenger comfort. Regards, Aharon

Radar88, WELCOME BACK to NZFF forums. Long long time no hear from you and your famous explanations!! Hope all is well with you!! Happy New Year to you! Regards, Aharon

"IF" .... anyone's interested the NZNAC DC-9-10 is now available from the HJG "FANTASY LIVERIES" downloads page (along with the earlier uploaded NZNAC BAC ONE-ELEVEN 400 too) .... Bear in mind please these files are "FS2004 native and FSX portable" only .... they may function in P3D V3 (not beyond this version though), but, I can't guarantee this as I've yet to have the opportunity to see/analyse this "for myself". The NZNAC BAe 146-200 couldn't be readied in time for HJG's December/Christmas release of just a few days ago though .... This particular...