Sunday, March 18, 2007

Dropping by to see Martha

Well it was a windy old day here in Wellington, just the kind of day you are glad you are not flying in a small coffin shaped chunk of metal.....

We were at Te Papa, it being wet and windy. My cellphone rang and a friend, who happens to hold a pilots licence, lets me know that the weather is due to clear up and he'll see me at 2pm at the Wellington Aeroclub. He says it might be a bit rough but she'll be all right...

He was right. It was an interesting take-off, a bumpy ride and a great landing (although every landing when you touch down on the wheels and not in a ball of flame is a good one). We flew over Marthas home town of Petone and waved; not sure if you were in but we waved anyway! There were some boats in the harbour and we got a great view of the South Island but it was hard to hold the camera steady by that point.

I'm trying to post the video from You-Tube but it might defeat me this evening....it'll appear below if I can get it working......



Damn, Wellington is a neat city even if it is windy.

8 comments:

  1. Ah, we were out, otherwise I'm sure we would have waved. Next time eh?

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  2. Ha! That was me, confusing eh?

    Martha

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  3. JUST TO CONFUSE THINGS FURTHER, I'M SIGNING IN AS GLEN, BECAUSE HE SAW (oops. caps lock on while I'm not looking) - he saw your plane! Well, we think it was yours. Flying lowish over Petone just before we went out.

    Cool eh?

    He couldn't tell for certain from the clip if he could see himself... but he reckons about 5min in you were over our house...

    Martha

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  4. That would have been us! We were quite low and did a series of steep left hand turns to bring us over the Avalon Studio. How neat! We were overhead from about 2:15pm to 2:40ish.

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  5. Yep, definitely, he said he saw you going over and back.

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  6. Yay! I'll pack a parachute next time and bring in the Milk Tray.....

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  7. Hi ya! Thanks for stopping by my dusty ol' blog. I'm so lazy...

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  8. Pleasure! Life keeps us all busy and I ain't exactly blogger of the year either!

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