The New Sports Cruiser

[cambridgedan]

Hey guys

have you seen the new sports cruiser before,
they are the next generation training plane, and they look sweeet to. And the best part if flys really good, much better than the 152 that i have been training in.

this is the only pic i have on me at the moment, ill add some more tonight.

What do ya think??

[flightnse]

Im In love

[deeknow]

QUOTE (cambridgedan @ Apr 7 2009, 12:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

have you seen the new sports cruiser before

Very nice. That looks suspiciously like the Waikato Microlight club strip on Collins Rd in Hamilton. I was there on the weekend for their open day, the following two similar beauties were parked up there too, love the RokoAero NG4 in the first pic, even comes with Winglets




There's a bunch of other pics here from the day here if anyones interested, including a few of some of the awesome RC aircraft out there, amazing displays of aerobatic trickery.

[cambridgedan]

yup thats the stratus quite a nice plane to fly, thats one of the only ones in the world at the moment.
lots of room inside, and confortable, we took it down to Ashburton for the flyin and i nearly fell asleep in the sun, (I was copilot lol)
that first pic of the sports cruiser was taken when we got to collins road, we had been up at Whitianga.

here are some more pics of the Sports Cruiser,

IN Whakatane



Masterton Airshow




Masterton with our car





THE STRATUS

Ashburton


Ashburton with the Sprots Cruiser


Flying Back From Ashburton




A couple of SCs parked at Foxpine


The New Sports Cruiser parked at the Collins Rd Airshow


Lining up for a low approach and overshoot at collins road which we got in trouble for hehe







Thats just a couple of the pics that ive got from traveling around with Aerosport Aviation,

www.aerosport.co.nz if ya wanna see more.

cheers

[ZK-MAT]

Is that Collins Road, Hamilton? I grew up on Rhonda Ave from age 4 - 16 ... never knew there was an airsptrip alongside the road!

[cambridgedan]

QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Apr 7 2009, 06:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Is that Collins Road, Hamilton? I grew up on Rhonda Ave from age 4 - 16 ... never knew there was an airsptrip alongside the road!

Yea it is collins Road Hamilton, there is kinda an airstrip its more of a paddock though and its private.
But the Microlite club fly out of there

[deeknow]

QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Apr 7 2009, 06:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Is that Collins Road, Hamilton? I grew up on Rhonda Ave from age 4 - 16 ... never knew there was an airsptrip alongside the road!

Hey Mat, I'm a fellow Melville-ite, didnt actually grow up there but went to Melville Finishing Academy - as we call it

Yeah, its parallel with Collins rd just around that first right hand bend after you cross the railway lines. Pretty hairy approach over a high hedge as that pic of Dans amply demonstrates. Saw some pretty crazy bouncy landings there on the weekend

edit: the surface is very paddocky, on Saturday one of the ultralights came in, bounced, landed again and smashed the carbon-fibre wheel guards off, pretty exciting for the punters

[ardypilot]

I'm not generally a fan of the light sport craft as they usually have huge unproportional glass bubbles sitting on top of tiny engined thin fuselages, but that RokoAero NG4 looks sexy as- what sort of TAS can you get out of them?

[cambridgedan]

QUOTE (deeknow @ Apr 7 2009, 08:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

the surface is very paddocky, on Saturday one of the ultralights came in, bounced, landed again and smashed the carbon-fibre wheel guards off, pretty exciting for the punters

I did hear somthink about that wen we flew in. A bit like at the festival of spped web the jabbaeo shed the fly wheel as it was comming into land

[squirrel350]

And the biggest b@lls up on the weekend was me not speaking quick enough when asked who was going to see the RC display so I had to babysit the Bell for well over an hour and before I got to see anything we were called out to a job so not happy plus a lil green around the gills from a few drinks Saturday nightr when Loren decided he would show off to the RC boys.

SQ350