Floatplane in Porirua?

[Jenks]

Just got home from work (early today ) and was driving north along the stretch of motorway between Porirua and Paremata roundabout when I heard an aircraft very close.

Couldn't work out where it was until I saw it VERY low ahead of me - flying north directly along the centreline of the motorway. Hard to estimate height, but I'm guessing not more than a couple of hundred feet up... at most

Once it got to the roundabout it banked left and headed towards the South Island. Lost sight of it at this point, but it appeared to be heading away south somewhere and gaining altitude.

Did anyone else see/hear this. I can confirm that it was a Cessna floatplane (easily close enough to see) but couldn't see any colours or markings as I was directly behind it, and trying to concentrate on driving safely at the same time.

I know there was a floatplane operation that operated between Porirua and Picton briefly but was under the impression that it ceased operating a while ago. Can anyone fill in the blanks?

Another aircraft to create AI for maybe

Steve

[squirrel350]

Have had the same sort of incident here in NZHN we were going for a late night drive not far from the city when we had a Freedom Air A320 or 737 not sure which it was fly really low over top of us I got straight on the phone to AirWays who said the pilot was having difficulties in the horrid weather we were having that night including a tornado that ripped through the city but had landed safely he was speeding over top and had a fairly steep banking turn in progress and we thought ****** but breathed a sigh of relief when we heard he landed safely altough it was a fairly bumpy one.

SQ350

[Jenks]

In bad weather maybe following roads is valid, but it is a beautiful sunny day. Plenty of room over Porirua Harbour to take off and climb out - so I'm wondering why fly at low level down the middle of a busy motorway

[mailman]

Mexican drug runners perhaps?

Mailman