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by **creator2003** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:25 pm

LOL glad you guys had a good flight anyway ,auckland looked good today ,oh and you made it back to the ground LOL ,sweet ride along Jared ,maybe next time seeing ive now seen you get back on the ground witnessed by 3

glad you can fly better than you used to sim

by **h290master** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:31 pm

I think both andrew and me definately need to practice rock paper scissers lol

by **HardCorePawn** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:15 am

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 13 2008, 10:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
INVERTED ,intense peer pressure,, TIMMO .. surprised you did't try and get him to land on the ASB pad

Funny you should mention the ASB pad... we actually did have a discussion about this...

and mechanics bay, but the $1000 landing fee put me off!

by **Daniel** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:24 am

Nice pics Timmo

Good to see you still had a good flight despite not getting to Tauranga.

by **Naki** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:01 am

We had a fairly good turn out with about a dozen people (some came early and went earlier and others came later). Even somebody who dosen't belong to this forum turned up and another guy who is not a regular poster also turned up - hes designing an add onmodel (Europa homebuilt). Next time I suggest that we have a stack of PCs set up in the board room so we can check out other peoples set up.

by **Naki** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:11 am

HardCorePawn wrote:
QUOTE (HardCorePawn @ Jul 13 2008, 05:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah... sorry guys According to the forecasts and online ATIS etc... it should have been sweet as... TG was FEW at 3000'!??! and the area forecast looked OK...

One of the instructors has advised that next time, I should try the 'Colville Gap'... up towards the northern tip of the Coromandel Peninsula... a bit further to go up and around, but should be passable.

To rub salt into the wound, I was hanging around the club this afternoon around 1630... and watched one of the bayflight aircraft (KID) do a Touch+Go.... so obviously this arvo it had cleared enough for them to come over

I hope you got some enjoyment out of our tiki tour... I had a good time (I usually do when flying )... but personally I am a bit bummed to have missed the sim ride... I had even been practicing the heavy metal on FSX!

Apologies to the Daniel and Naki... and the Flight Experience guys... thx for all the organisational efforts... hope you all had fun!

Yea the Kaimais really cleared up later so I guess the Bayflight Cessna got over fairly easily later on. I am aiming for a another meet in November as the Classic Flyers is a great venue for us to use.

Daniel wrote:
QUOTE (Daniel @ Jul 13 2008, 06:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hey Guys,

It was a shame the Auckland guys couldn't come down.
It looks like there might be another meet possibly at Tauranga again in the summer.
We had a great day down there and it was good to get to meet everyone.
We forgot to take a group photo
Thanks for organising it Naki

Cheers
Daniel

PS. Your flying in the sim was awesome Naki

I am not sure about the FE landing myself - I certainly would of want of being a passenger with me at the controls!

by **Anthony** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:30 am

Thanks for posting the pics of the flight Timmo. Looks like a good flight even if you didn't get to Tauranga.
November sounds good Naki, I'll try to be there next time.

by **beaufighterguy** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:15 pm

Looks like it was good fun.

by **NZ255** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:19 pm

Beaufighterguy, can you shed some light on your photos? I don't get the signature one. I'm presumming it's supposed to be funny?

by **beaufighterguy** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:27 pm

NZ255 wrote:
QUOTE (NZ255 @ Jul 14 2008, 04:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Beaufighterguy, can you shed some light on your photos? I don't get the signature one. I'm presumming it's supposed to be funny?

No worrys,if you have seen fonejacker you might get it.
They're all people of witch a guy makes out to be while he prank calls them.
If you'd like to see a bit of it just search fonejacker on youtube.

Btw theres a few here http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6084&st=260
just go to the very bottom of that link.

by **Kelburn** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:00 pm

I could have come as I was seeing a mate off at Wellington and he printed his boarding pass of and he got two. One was for him back to Nelson and the other was for a Berry Andrew to Tauranga. We decided not to use (not that we would as I'd be stuck with no way to get back along with the problem of the legalities)

by **NZ255** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:07 pm

Haha funny as!

by **Alfashark** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:55 pm

Thanks Naki, for organising the meeting! Not a bad turnout at all, and it was good to put some names to faces at last

One unexpected bonus was after we went our separate ways, I wandered on down to the gliding club to catch up with a few of the lads and got roped in to setting up a sim computer for another club...
they got rather excited about the prospect of soaring around a highly detailed NZ, with accurate representations of the machines we use and the conditions we fly in - I'll keep you all posted as to progress on that

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:30 pm

Alfashark wrote:
QUOTE (Alfashark @ Jul 14 2008, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I wandered on down to the gliding club to catch up with a few of the lads and got roped in to setting up a sim computer for another club...
they got rather excited about the prospect of soaring around a highly detailed NZ, with accurate representations of the machines we use and the conditions we fly in - I'll keep you all posted as to progress on that

Every person i meet who interest i do the same , few customers on-site installing Alloy Joinery for double glazing ....... WINDOWS2008

Well done ALFA

by **victor_alpha_charlie** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:59 pm

Alfashark wrote:
QUOTE (Alfashark @ Jul 14 2008, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thanks Naki, for organising the meeting! Not a bad turnout at all, and it was good to put some names to faces at last
One unexpected bonus was after we went our separate ways, I wandered on down to the gliding club to catch up with a few of the lads and got roped in to setting up a sim computer for another club...
they got rather excited about the prospect of soaring around a highly detailed NZ, with accurate representations of the machines we use and the conditions we fly in - I'll keep you all posted as to progress on that

Yeah I had the same situation today- one of Dad's mates and also an ex-VA pilot was at our place and I showed him FS. He's a Jetstar A320 Captain based in Christchurch and was pretty excited at the prospect of having a bit of practice

by **GEEWNZ** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:17 pm

Naki wrote:
QUOTE (Naki @ Jul 14 2008, 09:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
We had a fairly good turn out with about a dozen people (some came early and went earlier and others came later). Even somebody who dosen't belipg to this forum turned up and another guy who is not a regular poster also turned up - hes designing an add on model (Europa homebuilt). Next time I suggest that we have a stack of PCs set up in the board room so we can check out other peoples set up.

Hi guys.
Nice to meet a few of you at the recent meet.
As NAKI has stated, I'm working on the development of a home-built Europa model, having been inspired by the series on SKY TV a few years ago - "A Plane is Born".

Still some way off completing the model, but here is a pic by way of a teaser...

Hope you like...

Cheers.

by **Daniel** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:40 pm

That's looking nice mate

Nice meeting up with you.
Looking foward to it being released. Have you got any shots of the panel?

by **Anthony** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:50 pm

Looks pretty good GEEWNZ.
I'd quite to get my hands on this when it's released.
Post more when you've made more progress.

by **Kahu** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:51 pm

Looking pretty good GEEWNZ

, it was a good meet up, hopefully next time we can have some computers set up showing what people have on their set up.

by **ardypilot** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:07 pm

Welcome to the forums GEEWNZ, did you model that Europa yourself? It looks very professional- I look forward to the release

Will it be freeware or payware and for fs2004 of fsx?

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