NZFF

Heres some photos that I have taken over the last few years while I was a passenger on various aircraft. No time for taking photos when flying


Flying around Omaka on a club trip. I believe this was the hills south of the airstrip


Just about to cross the coast at Vernon Works. Note the black sky!!


We ended up getting turned around a couple of times. Township of Rarangi.


Leaving Kaikoura after a very enjoyable NZAWA rally


The weather closed in on us really quickly around Clarence and we were about to make forced landings several times but the cloud opened up enough to get us through to the sounds where the cloud base was quite high. There was never any real danger to us or the aircraft. We were talking to Woodbourne all the time and there is miles and miles of beach to the north of Kaikoura to land on.


Heading out into the straight.


Sun starts to break through the clouds


Flying into the zone through the Sinclair sector on left base for runway 34


On finals into WLG


Another day, another flight back from Omaka on a lovely Friday afternoon. Right hand circuit for runway 16. This time in a PA38


Another view of the airstrip on the same day.

Hey chopper nut, did you say you did some airstrip training?

Not in those photos. I did do some strip flying at Omaka yesterday though

Great shots, especially those of Wellington.

yeah but Omaka isn't really like strip training...I mean somewhere like Chateau (on ruapehu)...like the ones included on the RBE topo

We were doing very short field landings at Omaka, its the closest thing that we can get in WLG B)

Thats a good thing about being able to do training around the Waikato, all sorts of obscure airstrips....... NZES (Wharepapa South) is a fav, first you must find it, then once youve found it, getting in and out is fun, it is possible, but if you do performance calculations, they will always say you cant get in or out........ an anomaly some would say...

Love your shots, especially the NZWN appoach one. Thanks for posting

Cheers, I was over in Omaka a couple of days ago and it was one of those times where I wish I wasnt busy flying so I could take some more. It was such a fantastic day over there.