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1. 06:02 AM - Re: Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/14 - 2/21 (Pete)
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3. 01:28 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/14 - 2/21 (creightonious)
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/14 - |
2/21
Nice! Sounds like it woulda made a sweet youtube vid :)
PeteZ
> On Feb 20, 2022, at 1:19 AM, Area-51 <goldsteinindustrial@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Were on a road to nowhere.... today started early with a no fuss planned fly-in
fly-out breakfast... it was a great flight in, no traffic as expected, showers
and low level cloud to weave around.. 125nm into 153nm destination low lying
cloud started getting thicker and lower as the sky to the north started turning
dark grey... into the first valley we went to check it out and decided to
pull the mission, leaving a handful of more curious aviators investigating possibilities...
out we flew the way we came in and back past abeam a very busy
local grass strip full of pilots peeing before heading back home... with about
60L of fuel left the europa just kept going... eventually nature dictated a forced
landing at a lovely airfield where we peed on a shrubbery and that felt
so very good to do... full power down 15 and heading out over rising ground was
not difficult for the europa, and we went the rest of the way back to base...
the adventure continued at rounding out hitting s!
> ome lift just when you are not needing it, so back up into the sky we went, full
power and observing 1000min at 80kt IAS; very impressive for 80hp and two
up... second approach was successful and we were backtracking soon after to pack
the cruise missile away with the help of the fully engineered rail system completed
after a week long very long construction just the day before.
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| Subject: | What did you do with your Europa last week |
Had a "boy's own" adventure last week flying from Omaka (top of the South
Island) to Wairoa (east coast of North Island) 2.2 hrs.
Conditions were perfect for such a flight with most of the North Island leg
flown VFR on top of a broken 3500 foot cloud base at a ground speed of 140
- 150 kts due to the Southerly tail wind.
Transiting through the Napier Class D airspace was straight forward with no
major diversions being required. Near Lake Titira an amendment to the
clearance was required to allow a descent through the closing cloud gaps to
continue the remaining flight at 3500' below the base. A nice landing on the
sealed 1370 meter Wairoa airstrip followed. After a Cafe" lunch and
encounter in town I continued on to Gisbourne where the Airfield is famous
for having a rail line crossing the main vector on its southern side. No
problems there with trains or planes with ZKMEE being accommodated on the
grass GA parking area next to the commercial apron.
The next day it was back in the air to reverse the track through the Napier
airspace to the small country Town of Dannevirke. Dannevirke has a generous
grass airstrip of 1200 meters in length and friendly company at the
aeroclub. For this trip I carried a fold up electric bike which I have found
very handy getting from airfields into town. After another overnight stay I
continued the return flight back to Omaka this time to building North
Westerly pre frontal conditions (rough!) via Wellingtons Hutt Valley and
Paekakariki and then VFR flight following across Cook Straight back to my
home airstrip an Omaka.
Ian McClelland
Blenheim
New Zealand
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/14 - 2/21 |
On Monday I flew from Key West KEYW to Punta Gorda KPGD Where I have a hangar.
Due to a lot of things I hadnt been able to get up there on a weekday in order
to get my new hangar key and badge.
I was unable due to the lack of a passport.
Who knew that Punta Gorda is a sovereign foreign country?
The flight was pleasant, though and if the crosswind ever gets less than 15kt (KEYW
has 1 runway, east west) maybe Ill go up again. With my passport this time.
Creighton. A-009
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Creighton Smith
A 036
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