NZFF

Sunday Night Ops
Auckland and Napier
Sunday 07th April 2013 1900-2230 NZST / 1700-2030 AEST / 0700-1030 UTC




East Coast Month

For the month of April we're focussing our attention on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Every week we will be visiting one of the airports in this sunny, stunning region.


Auckland and Napier

First up is Napier: largest population centre on the coast, and home to one of the busier regional airports in the country. With the offset runway 16 approach, the nearby Pacific, and the mountainous terrain just north of the field, this is a great airport to fly into or control.

Pilots should start at either Napier or Auckland and fly at least one return trip to the other airport and back.

Flight time each way should be around 45mins, so a return trip should be easy and flies over a wide variety of terrain.


Flight Routes

• Auckland to Napier (AANR1):
  AA H372 TULMI Y888 MOOSE H372 NR
• Napier to Auckland (NRAA3):
  NR H211 GENDA Y733 LEGER H182 AA

For more information, including airport charts and position details, check out the event page.

Excuse my ignorance, is this for commercial type operations or do you allow VFR GA to fly in the vicinity of those airports? (with proper coms and procedures obviously)

Timmo, you can fly what you like mate. It's true that most of the fliers tend to be in commercial aircraft and flying IFR but there's plenty who like to fly VFR in anything they prefer, GA, choppers, millitary stuff, you name it. Also, although the event is a point to point there's no reason why you can't fly in/out of just one of the two airports, or even just do circuit training. The cool thing is having trained controllers online and other aircraft using radios so you have an idea about what to expect from them.

Cool I just don' think I'll have time (and likely knowledge!) to do any proper commercial stuff but it might be useful for the controllers and other guys that are flying the routes to have to contend with a bit of circuit traffic etc...It'll be a good excuse to brush up my radio telephony!