Friday, August 31, 2007

Sep 2nd:VATNZ/VATPAC Joint Ops - Auckland to Queenstown

This combined event between VATNZ and VATPAC sees the Aussies cross to Tasman for a New Zealand domestic flight on Sunday 02SEP07, 0700-1000 UTC.

Your flight departs Auckland, NZAA for one of the most interesting approaches in New Zealand, QUEENSTOWN, NZQN. Due to the restriction requirements at Queenstown only one IFR departure and IFR arrival are allowed in the Wakatipu Bason at the same time so make sure you carry lots of extra fuel to complete holds or speed restrictions as it will be tight getting your aircraft into Queenstown! Also, due to real world restrictions prohibiting night operations in Queenstown, pilots are encouraged to set their Flightsim times to UTC not local time.

Full departure and arrival charts are available at the NZ AIP Website.
For excellent addon scenery for Auckland and Queenstown search AVSIM.com

Pilots are encouraged to book their intentions to fly on vRoute.info so that it displays on the VATNZ Website and in vRoute so that other pilots know of your intentions to participate and to encourage others to join in.

We look forward to seeing you flying in New Zealand, home to Middle Earth!

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