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Went down to the lake front this morning because I knew there'd be a couple of helicopters leaving at 10:30 or thereabouts - brought my camera (afterwards I went to the rescue helicopter open day - so it wasn't really luck I had my camera in the car I suppose... ), anyway - pictures;


HRO on a pad


ZK-EFI, which was also there


ZK-FEO, which was way out in the lake...


And the legendary VAS


Another water-craft right next door


Close up of HRO


EFI departing, having been pushed out - and right after this shot it started its engine


Taxiing (?) out of the gate (?) area


Speeding up a little bit, the wind was a South-Westerly, so it went out for quite a bit then took off across my field of vision


IBA coming in from the airport (I saw it there as I drove into town)


Landing next to HRO


HRO and IBA - see the my end note for what I have learnt


IBA lifting off with 3 pax on board


Flying out for a trip to Mt Tarawera


HRO also lifting off - heading over to Mt Tarawera with IBA


It looked a bit unseemly a couple of times as it flew away from its pad


Empty again...

What I learnt was, don't ever try and take photos just about into the Sun! Looking down the jetty you are looking North-East, and as it was morning the sun was glancing off the water and going all over the place. I've had to tweak a couple of the images to get them to look ok .

Thanks for looking,

Alex

Looks busy there, Good photography

Matthew

P.S. I wonder what would would happen if you cleared a duck for takeoff

Nice one Alex, I like the VAS operation...

~ZK-KAG~

Cool pics, it looks real busy down there.

Nice photos, I must go back down there soon.