Wellington - Tauranga Return x2

[victor_alpha_charlie]

I got lucky
Dad was flying today with fairly light loads, so I had a 5:30 start this morning to go with him on 2 Wellington - Tauranga returns in VA's Dash 8. The co-pilot was a new guy, Andrew, who is a kiwi that has just come back from the Caribbean flying as Chief Pilot for an airline in Antigua flying Islanders. I talked to him today about it and he's flown to all the famous airports, including St Barts and St Maarten each twice a day. I took a few pics on the way.

Excuse any of the blurry ones

Watching the sunrise on our positioning flight to TRG:





Mt Ruapehu glowing, with the crater lake too.









On the way back:










On the ground after the trip:







Just had a nice new interior put in:

[deeknow]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Jun 15 2008, 09:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Dad was flying today with fairly light loads, so I had a 5:30 start this morning to go with him on 2 Wellington - Tauranga returns in VA's Dash 8.

Fantastic pics, what an awesome place to be at sunrise huh, those early shots over Tongariro park are stunning.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (deeknow @ Jun 15 2008, 09:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Fantastic pics, what an awesome place to be at sunrise huh, those early shots over Tongariro park are stunning.

Cheers for the comment!
It was incredible, didn't discourage me from being a pilot at all!
Sorry there aren't more pics, I was enjoying the ride too much

[Ian Warren]

Love ya pics ... on landing ... What a brilliant day in Wellington

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 15 2008, 09:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Love ya pics ... on landing ... What a brilliant day in Wellington

For once
Cheers Ian!

[Naki]

Awesome pics VAC - thanks for posting

[AlisterC]

Cheers Tom! Very nice shots Having bright, shiny and clean aircraft is important to passengers

[Daniel]

Lucky Thing
Thanks for sharing all those pictures. You would have had a great time.
All the planes looking super shiny

Daniel

[Anthony]

Nice pics Tom thanks for sharing.
I'd love to be in your shoes - lucky.
Nice bit of self promotion there

[kiwibarguy]

Great Shots. How lucky you are! Thanks for sharing them!

[BK-117]

Really nice pictures. Your so lucky to be able to do that!

[jastheace]

great pics, now how to get flight sim to look like that???!!! that nice shiny plane proberly adds a few knots speed and reduces fuel usage a little bit two, we have a pilot here who has just got his plane (piper pa-31) repainted, and he said that the new paint job added 4 knots and has reduced fuel burn by about 2 litres an hour

[ardypilot]

Wow, Ruapehu looks amazing in that early morning light- worth missing a lie in for ay?

Oh and the finals shot into Wellington is great too, love seeing a pilots perspective that I can compare to FS.

[Mattnz]

So lucky

Great pictures, Tom. Great shots of Ruapehu from the air

[Kelburn]

great shots.
Glad to see you put school before all else (same for me though tonights a disaster)

I started doing some maths homework which will end up taking an hour but then I had to fix the internet which boiled down to a faulty phone jack (I needed to switch to the second one) that took a grand total of nearly 50mins.
I still need to practice Trombone and Bass (combines 60mins) plus I need to do lots of Graphics and History work (a total of up to 5hours!!!!!) Man am I stressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Kelburn @ Jun 16 2008, 06:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

great shots.
Glad to see you put school before all else (same for me though tonights a disaster)

Nah, I just ended up mucking around on FS. Screw homework

[FlyingKiwi]

Cool shots, I like the landing sequence. The light on Ruapehu looks pretty stunning too.