Wellington flyin

[steve wenban]

Hi All

The palmerston north crew are hoping to fly at wellington on the 27th 28th of december weather permitting, any takers from wellington.

dave

[Flywellnz]

I just found this thread - what happened? Did you contact any of us from the Wellington area?

Maybe we should descend on the Palmerston North slope sometime! (we will ask first though)

Regards
Gordon :)

[pope]

The flying day was blown out, the wind was from the right direction but would tear the wings off as you tried to get a slopie out of the car, so we headed back up the coast to Shannon and put in a great afternoon.

Maybe we could contact you if we are going to have another wellington day.

cheers
dave.

[Flywellnz]

Well you missed a great day, last Saturday! Lots of people showed up, some flew then left, others carried on talking and flying. Some nice scale gliders had a great time. I flew my Polatis and Renegade. Two Primary Gliders flew nicely in the light to moderate breeze.
A Mig 3 from the SPAD plan was flown - model has a corefute fuselage and EPP wings (5% RG15). Flew well though apparently it likes more wind.

Pete W, Joe (and Jan) Wurts showed up after lunch. Joe was flying a nice moulded glider. He started by exploring the lift band before showing us how fast this thing could go in the lift! Joe was using a very interesting turn technique - almost a reverse roll on the LHS (boy that wing must have lots of carbon in it!)

We all knew that Titahi is not good for Dynamic Soaring - lucky that Joe did not know that as he went right ahead and did it! (we knew he would!) No radar gun present but 2 - 300 km/hr would a be reasonable guess. The model absolutely flashed around! Joe was careful not to allow the model to build too much speed (said that he likes his model) Another of his rules is to limit DS's to 15min sessions! Afterwards he dropped the flaps and cruised into a hand catch!

[pope]

Sounds like a great day, shame we picked the wrong one.
Is there any chance of getting a contact number for someone so if we decide to come down we might have an itea if the conditions and if anyone will be flying.

cheers
dave.

[steve wenban]

Yeah round September would be good Dave ;)
SteveW only allowed to pack one plane DOH!!!

[Flywellnz]

Hi Dave - re contact no - I'll pm you or something.

Titahi conditions - I use the metar for Mt Kaukau. Knock about 5knts off the Kaukau reading and you will be close for Titahi Bay.
The metar reading can be got from here: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml Code for Wellington is NZWN
Current reading is this: NZWN 111900Z 02016KT 40KM SKC 17/11 Q1019 NOSIG RMK KAUKAU 35028KT . The bit you want follows the Kaukau, and means the direction is 350 degrees (slighly west of North) and windspeed is 28 knots. Make that 23knots or 30 - 35km/hr at the Titahi cliffs!
The metar can also be found on Leo's weather site's
http://www.wmac.org.nz/trenthamweather/

And a web cam points towards the back of Titahi Bay from his Whitby house:
http://www.wmac.org.nz/trenthamweather/

The will be local flyers at Titahi most flyable weekends, or whenever they get the chance. It is a WMAC designated flying site and we have permission for our activities there, so we prefer to know who is there. Occasionally guys will turn up and fly without communicating, checking frequencies etc. You will be welcome of course.

Regards

[pope]

Thanks for the info gordon,

It will be a great help, I will also add a thread when we are going to have another trip. Should be soon.

Regards
Dave.

[pope]

hi Steve,

? only one plane

[steve wenban]

yeah the boss has spoken lol
dont know which one yet maybe the Salto.
SteveW

[pope]

I can prob. knock something together or I should have quite a fleet

dave.

[flyonline]

Steve,
any SI action, or all north Island?

ps don't forget to put the boot in, and be ready for the "under-arm" bash

[steve wenban]

The Carbon bird will be coming and Daves new toy a Swift Just read back though this thread ,sorry I put the welly boys noses out of joint never mind ;) . Only flying the north end on this trip to see Dave. hope to get some Dsing in as well as some Front side work around the places that Dave flys. Friday week cant come fast enough :) I should be up for a rest as the weekend before we leave the WSSS has another tree cutting day on the slope and it will open up the south face for DS action :) should be good for some big speeds
SteveW
P.S seeing as we have to catch the train to the airport glad I only have the one big box to carry plus bags.