some good reasons why not to fly into wellington
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:39 pm
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some good reasons why not to fly into wellington
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:02 pm
Harden up........thats normal......its a bit like the Aucklanders getting worried about a tiny little earthquake
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:03 pm
I know 
have experienced this type of flying first hand
have experienced this type of flying first hand
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:08 pm
Its like that flying into Queenstown too...
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:10 pm
An autoland system wouldn't be able to cope apparantly....
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:12 pm
first time i visited my mate in wgtn hetook me to the airport and we sat at the end of the runway to watch the planes trying to land
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:54 pm
whats wrong with those landings? thats normal isnt it?
looks fun to me..
shows how good the pilots are tho aye?
looks fun to me..
shows how good the pilots are tho aye?
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:01 am
Man they are old clips . All the old 737's from Air NZ and good old anset . Look pretty typical for welly thou but the last one got a bit of a dump .
Chris
Chris
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:36 am
Landing in welly has produced a bad memory for me.... 
Coming in, it was so windy that the pilot had to fly in at about a 45 degree angle to the runway, then turn and drop at the last minute. I swear the wing touched the ground on the way in...... We heard later on that the plane had to be "repaired" after that, so we had to go on a different plane to Auckland...... scared the crap out of me, but hey, I was only 11 at the time. Mum admitted much much later that she thought the wing touched as well, and that it was the last curtain call.........
Coming in, it was so windy that the pilot had to fly in at about a 45 degree angle to the runway, then turn and drop at the last minute. I swear the wing touched the ground on the way in...... We heard later on that the plane had to be "repaired" after that, so we had to go on a different plane to Auckland...... scared the crap out of me, but hey, I was only 11 at the time. Mum admitted much much later that she thought the wing touched as well, and that it was the last curtain call.........
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:52 am
First time coming in to Wgtn was on a Air New Zealand Force (RNZAF) Andover. The pilot run out of runway and just dropped it from about 6 feet, lucky they got big shocky's.
The other time was on a Air NZ, pilot came on the PA and said "Hangon, this is going to get rough". A lot of white knuckles as the plane did snakey's down the runway. A lot of praying and promises to God, Alah, Budda and anyone else that was listening.
The other time was on a Air NZ, pilot came on the PA and said "Hangon, this is going to get rough". A lot of white knuckles as the plane did snakey's down the runway. A lot of praying and promises to God, Alah, Budda and anyone else that was listening.
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:31 pm
1979 1980 was not unusal for the airport to be closed to civvie flights then half an hour later we would come in and land, yep 45 degree touch downs were only slightly more common than slamming them onto the deck from 6 feet