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March 2013<br />
HAWERA AERO CLUB<br />
NEWSLETTER<br />
I T ’ S Y O U R A T T I T U D E T H A T C O U N T S<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 1<br />
Ivon Warmington Trophy
What a wonderful summer we have had, and<br />
I hope you have all taken advantage of the<br />
weather and been flying.<br />
The Scott’s Trophy was to be held on March<br />
17th, and with the club rooms decorated for<br />
St Patricks day, the drought was broken and<br />
the competition was cancelled.<br />
We are extending an invite to the Air Safari<br />
participants for lunch this coming Saturday<br />
23 rd to enjoy our hospitality. It would be<br />
great to see a good club turnout at the club<br />
to welcome visiting aircraft.<br />
Now we have a wonderful new indoor<br />
outdoor flow at the clubrooms, we have<br />
introduced summer barbeques. The first was<br />
on the Friday the 1 st of February and it was<br />
then decided to have them on a regular<br />
monthly basis. March the 1 st was our second<br />
barbeque and the news had spread far and<br />
wide and we had an international member<br />
attend. There was also a trophy on display,<br />
but alas not many local members were there<br />
to see it that night. The next night will be<br />
Friday the 5 th of April, put it in your diary<br />
now and come down and celebrate the last<br />
Friday of daylight savings.<br />
The AvKiwi seminar entitled “Get the Mental<br />
Picture” was held in New Plymouth on<br />
OFFICERS/COMMITTEE/STAFF<br />
Patron.........John Roberts-Thompson President............. Tony Muller Snr Vice President..... Graeme Bycroft<br />
Jnr Vice President Jim McKay <strong>Club</strong> Captain ........ Julie Ingram Vice <strong>Club</strong> Captain ...... Jacob Maddren<br />
Committee ..Ralph Gibson John Veldthuis Steve McKay<br />
John Frew Guy Oakley Ben Dickie<br />
Dave Hjorring Secretary............. Vikki Lynch CFI(NP <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong>)..... Wayne Harrison<br />
Email: secretary@haweraaeroclub.org.nz<br />
Website: www.haweraaeroclub.org.nz<br />
OFFICE HOURS TUES & THURS 11AM-3PM<br />
PH: 06 278 6301<br />
FAX: 06 278 6301<br />
STATE HIGHWAY 3<br />
PO BOX 316<br />
HAWERA<br />
Www.facebook.com/<strong>Hawera</strong><strong>Aero</strong><strong>Club</strong><br />
Monday the<br />
4th CLUB CAPTAIN’S CORNER<br />
of March<br />
with a good contingent of eight <strong>Hawera</strong><br />
members attending. We came away with a<br />
much greater appreciation of the term<br />
situational awareness and the importance of<br />
it to us as pilots.<br />
I hear through the grapevine that one of our<br />
members, (Who will remain anonymous ….<br />
Brendan Mulligan) got a ride in the rescue<br />
helicopter having broken his collar bone in a<br />
motorbike accident, it sounded like it was<br />
almost worth it. I hope Brendan recovers<br />
quickly so that he can return to flying with<br />
us.<br />
Last but not least I would like to extend the<br />
clubs congratulations to Nathan Busby and<br />
his partner on the birth of their first child. A<br />
budding new pilot for <strong>Hawera</strong> in 16 years<br />
time.<br />
That’s enough from me this month, catch up<br />
again next month with hopefully a<br />
contribution from our Instructor and our<br />
President to get their perspective on the<br />
club activities.<br />
Julie Ingram<br />
ja.ingram@gmail.com<br />
021 150 2351<br />
www.f lyingnz.co.nz<br />
See our <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />
online on FlyingNZ<br />
website.<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 2
HAWERA AERO CLUB FLYING HOURS<br />
<br />
December 2012<br />
Dual Solo<br />
Dual Solo<br />
Non<br />
Revenue<br />
Non<br />
Revenue<br />
Social Drinks<br />
Total<br />
UNB 8.4 3.5 2.1 14.0<br />
EOS 1.8 11.9 0.0 13.7<br />
LJW 0.0 1.2 0.0 1.2<br />
TOTAL 10.2 16.6 2.1 28.9<br />
January 2013<br />
Total<br />
UNB 7.7 8.9 1.1 17.7<br />
EOS 0.0 17.1 4.0 21.1<br />
LJW 0.0 3.6 1.9 5.5<br />
TOTAL 7.7 29.6 7.0 44.3<br />
Every Friday night<br />
Yes we have eftpos<br />
What’s Coming up?<br />
Regulars:<br />
Every Saturday Dargaville <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> invites<br />
pilots to Lunch at club.<br />
Third Sunday of every month everyone is<br />
welcomed to BBQ lunch<br />
March 19-29<br />
FlyingNZ Air Safari<br />
Starting Masterton & Finishing Motueka<br />
March 23<br />
FlyingNZ Air Safari<br />
Lunch provided for the pilots and trip to<br />
Tawhiti Museum<br />
March 29-31<br />
Classic Fighters Airshow<br />
Omaka-Blenheim<br />
April 6<br />
April 6-7<br />
End of Daylight Saving FlyIn<br />
Tokoroa <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong><br />
Balloons over Waikato<br />
Display by Red Checkers<br />
April 14 (Tentative)<br />
Scotts Trophy<br />
Hosted by <strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> from 7.30am<br />
April 27<br />
ANZAC Airshow<br />
Hood <strong>Aero</strong>drome Masterton<br />
June 1<br />
Women in Aviation annual Rally & AGM<br />
Wanaka<br />
For more information on any dates<br />
www.flyingdates.co.nz<br />
or Aviation News and Kiwi Flyer<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 3
Wings Over Wairarapa<br />
Wings over Wairarapa is a biennial Airshow<br />
at Hood <strong>Aero</strong>drome in Masterton. When the<br />
2011 show was held, we had been planning<br />
to fly in, and we had a full plane. The<br />
weather though had other plans and we<br />
decided to try again another year. That year<br />
was this one, 19 th January 2013. We left<br />
early in the morning from <strong>Hawera</strong> where the<br />
raising sun was orange (from the Australian<br />
fires maybe.)<br />
We flew along the coast past Ohakea and<br />
Foxpine, we crossed the range South of the<br />
Manawatu gorge.<br />
Yak 52’s<br />
The visibility on the Eastern side of the<br />
range was reduced. But traffic on 119.10<br />
was all heading the same way, to Masterton.<br />
Getting into Masterton was easy, all<br />
uncontrolled and everything worked as it<br />
should. We were parked on the Eastern side<br />
of the field<br />
and driven<br />
ov er to<br />
A i r s h o w<br />
side.<br />
We ha d<br />
time to look<br />
around the<br />
trade stalls<br />
and ground<br />
displays.<br />
They had a<br />
seven story<br />
hot a ir<br />
balloon that<br />
they could<br />
only have<br />
up for a<br />
Iwi the Kiwi<br />
short time as it started to get too windy ,<br />
but Iwi the Kiwi was a sight to see, although<br />
not actually flying. Iwi has a silver fern on<br />
front left side and on the other side a place<br />
for advertising measuring 23 x 23 foot.<br />
The Yaks put on a good display, if not<br />
slightly sporadic the first time they were in<br />
the air. But the real reason this was the<br />
popular Airshow that it was, was the fact<br />
that this was the last show the Mosquito<br />
would be at prior to the two week process of<br />
preparing Mosquito to be shipped to America<br />
in a specially designed shipping container.<br />
The Mosquito put on a good show, of<br />
course. There was also some great<br />
formation displays that had the mosquito<br />
leading.<br />
The jets also had a good formation display<br />
with three L-39’s a Strikemaster and two<br />
Vampire’s. We enjoyed watching the RNZAF<br />
displays with the Iroquois, Orion and 757.<br />
Unfortunately the red checkers weren’t<br />
there. We enjoyed our day and there were<br />
plenty of people from <strong>Hawera</strong> we spotted<br />
over there, but the best was to arrive at an<br />
Airshow is to fly in. We have valuable asset<br />
in our planes and taking them on a day trip<br />
to an airshow is a fun and educational<br />
experience. Next major airshow is Classic<br />
Fighters at Omaka over Easter. Flying into<br />
O m a k a<br />
Airshow is a<br />
bit more<br />
complicate d<br />
and is best<br />
y o u<br />
t h o r o u g h ly<br />
read the AIP<br />
supple me nt.<br />
With a bit of<br />
r e s e a r c h<br />
you’ll enjoy<br />
your flight.<br />
Jet Formation<br />
Mosquito leads the force<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 4
FlyingNZ Nationals 2013<br />
In November <strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> had a strong<br />
team compete in the Regional Competitions in<br />
Te Kuiti. Graeme Bycroft and myself (Julie<br />
Ingram) competed in the Ivon Warmington<br />
Liferaft dropping competition and came away<br />
with a win. Winning at Regional level gives<br />
you the opportunity to attend and compete at<br />
the Nationals. The Nationals this year were in<br />
Motueka, a nice close place for us to attend.<br />
Motueka <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> were very helpful and<br />
very friendly. They had members always<br />
happy to give us a ride into town for a<br />
donation to their new hanger fund.<br />
We flew down to Motueka on the Thursday<br />
morning arriving in time for lunch. We<br />
enjoyed a great meal on the Thursday night,<br />
all catered for by the club.<br />
Friday we had to be at the field early for the<br />
briefing. Then because our competition wasn’t<br />
till 4pm, Graeme decided he needed to get<br />
into town for a breakfast of Eggs Benedict.<br />
Breakfast eaten we returned to the airfield,<br />
because it was almost lunch time and we’d<br />
ordered lunch!<br />
We had to get ready for our competition, I had to<br />
get my harness on and we had to take out all<br />
loose items and remove the door.<br />
Our competition is the Ivon Warmington trophy,<br />
where the pilot (Graeme) flys an approach at 200<br />
feet and informs me (Julie) when he wants the<br />
raft pushed out the door. When the competition<br />
was over it was also the end of the full day of<br />
competition flying. We had two excellent speakers<br />
at the Friday night dinner, with Graeme planning<br />
on putting big wheels on 172 and moving nose<br />
wheel to tail with plans to land it on big rocks in<br />
river beds. Saturday was a rest day, we were<br />
meant to fly to D’urville Island but the wind was<br />
wrong, so we headed to Karamea for lunch then<br />
Murchison and back to Motueka. That night was<br />
prizegiving and guess what…We Won!<br />
First Time <strong>Hawera</strong>’s won that trophy!<br />
Motueka Airfield<br />
Murchison<br />
Karamea Hotel<br />
Saturday Night Smiles<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 5
Working Bee for Ranchslider<br />
The idea of a putting a ranchslider/stacker<br />
door in the club house was formed quite<br />
some time ago on a Friday night. Slowly the<br />
idea was thought through and decided that<br />
we could do it and it would improve the<br />
clubrooms. I was taken to the AGM and<br />
followed up at the following committee<br />
meeting. Graeme had a sound plan and the<br />
plan was put to action with plans done by<br />
….. The first working bee was on Friday 7th<br />
and Saturday 8th, with a great turn out of<br />
members to help and great progress was<br />
made. The<br />
old window<br />
w a s<br />
r e m o v e d<br />
and the<br />
door was<br />
put in. The<br />
p r o j e c t<br />
couldn’t be<br />
e n c l o s e d<br />
until the<br />
c o u n c i l<br />
i ns pe c to r<br />
had been<br />
to check<br />
the work.<br />
It passed!<br />
The cladding went on at the next working<br />
bee on Friday 14 th December after work and<br />
more good progress was made.<br />
Graeme put in a lot of solo work on<br />
Saturdays and Sundays between then and<br />
the last working bee that was on Saturday<br />
2 nd March. That working bee was to get the<br />
painting done, there was a lot more painting<br />
and work there and finally we were making<br />
progress. Graeme and I headed to Mitre 10<br />
to pick the paint for the interior wall, we<br />
thought we would make it obvious that we<br />
had painted the wall and pick an outrageous<br />
colour! The job is almost completed now<br />
with just some more finishing paint work to<br />
do and we have a brilliant door to enjoy, I’d<br />
like to thank all the helpers over all days.<br />
Thanks to Graeme Bycroft, Christina Bycroft,<br />
Guy Oakley, Terry Ingram, Julie Ingram,<br />
Wilt Hodges, Peter Williams, Jacob Maddren,<br />
Rochelle Fleming & Andre De’Ath, great club<br />
spirit everyone!<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 6
Correcting Errors in Official Documents<br />
61.29(e) An incorrect entry in a logbook may be altered only<br />
by putting a line through the entry and by adding the correct<br />
information either beside the entry or on a new line.<br />
Rule 61.29(e) provides for the correction<br />
of a logbook entry. Correcting fluid (e.g.<br />
twink), stickers or labels do not meet<br />
this rule requirement.<br />
This is the official rule set by CAA, if you<br />
make a mistake in any official document like<br />
your logbook and the aircrafts Technical Log<br />
you need to rule a straight line through it, the<br />
mistake still needs to be readable.<br />
DON’T USE TWINK<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Online Booking<br />
There has been much talk over a number of<br />
years that there needs to greater access for<br />
pilots to the club aircraft and one of these<br />
ways is to have a better more modern<br />
approach to the booking system. We are<br />
going to trial Google Calendar to see if it will<br />
be suitable for our needs.<br />
We are hoping that every member that will be<br />
using the booking system will use their own<br />
login, which is a gmail account, if you have<br />
an android smartphone you will already have<br />
one.<br />
The <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> calendar will be shared with<br />
your gmail account and then when you make<br />
a booking it will be possible to see who<br />
makes, modifies or moves a booking.<br />
The example of the diary below is an example<br />
of last weeks diary and how it looks when the<br />
date has past.<br />
To make this work every flight will have to be<br />
in the diary. After talking to other clubs that<br />
use google calendar that’s the one thing that<br />
they found as the biggest issue. For example<br />
someone is at home and they check the diary<br />
and find, the plane they want is available and<br />
book it, drive to the club to use and find that<br />
someone has already taken the plane and not<br />
booked it.<br />
This is a very exciting advancement in the<br />
club and we need everyone to support it, if<br />
you have any suggestions to make it work<br />
better we’d love to hear them.<br />
So all you need to do is get a gmail account<br />
and inform us.<br />
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 7
<strong>Hawera</strong> <strong>Aero</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Incorporation 8