Club News

WAK is bak, again.

ETN is away, pending replacement of its camshaft, one of a batch of faulty ones delivered for the Continental engines used in Cessna 206s.

CHO on-line.

RNX ^? returns, re-engined.

New C-cat instructor.

21-Apr-2009 AGM 7pm at the club. See http://groups.google.com/group/wakatipu-aero-club/browse_thread/thread/6d319278599f3869#

PPL & CPL passes

ETT refurbished

10-Mar-2009 ZK-RNX retired

The well-liked RNX ^?, one of our Cessna 172s, has had to be returned to its owner as the engine has gone over the life permitted for aircraft used for training. We hope to see it again once its engine has been replaced/overhauled.

6-Dec-2008 New B-cat Flight Instructor

We warmly welcome Roydon Wells to the Wakatipu Aero Club. Roydon has been instructing in Invercargill and holds a B-category flight instruction qualification. This means he can conduct just about any training we might require from trial flights and ab initio PPL training through to BFRs and CPL exercises. He arrives just in time to help us cope a little better with the usual increase of activity over the Summer months. Already we've been struggling to meet demand from members owing to lack of instructors and we are still recruiting for at least one more instructor. But your chance of having an instructor to fly with has now greatly improved. Phone and book or come in and have a chat with Roydon.

25-Nov-2008 In-house OCA Examiner

Commercial pilots need to pass an operational competency assessment (OCA) annually with the organisation for which they fly. Julianne Kramer is now licensed to assess the operational competency of commercial pilots. No longer will the club have to use an external assessor for the pilots of our airline, Air Wakatipu. And we are able to offer OCA's to other local operators.

25-Nov-2008 New commitee member

Ray Crow has been co-opted onto the Committee.

Nov-2008 Alex Turnbull CPL

It's all happening to schedule (and quicker) for Alex!

Oct-2008 Rats and ships

Matt Cameron is now flying the Cherokee 6 for Glenorchy Air but is still to be found at the club and he remains a valuable committee member.

Jennie Rolston bravely stayed the winter but she is unfortunately no longer instructing except possibly on an occasional basis. She will be flying out of Te Anau, where she lives. That commute was just too much.

Sep-2008 Another aircraft

ZK-RNX ^? is now one of the aircraft on line at the club.

24-Jul-2008 Matt Murphy PPL

Congratulation to Matt Murphy on passing his PPL flight test today!

03-Jul-08 Another OCA

Congratulations to Ray Crow on passing his OCA, keeping up the recent run of successful flight tests at the club.

14-Jun-08 WHY’s back with a new windscreen

When ZK-WHY came online with the club in March this year everybody who flew it made the same comment: “great plane just a shame about the windscreen”. Well WHY has been in maintenance for the last week and now has a new windscreen.

ZK-MDR has been withdrawn by its owner. We hope to see it back one day.

14-Jun-08 Two OCA's and a PPL

Congratulations to Andrew Elcock on passing his PPL flight test this week. Peter Daniell and Matt Cameron also passed their OCA's so are able to come online with Air Wakatipu as commercial pilots.

01-Jun-08 Open Day 2008

11-May-08 Welcome to Jennie Rolston

We are very pleased to welcome Jennie Rolston to the club. She is a B-category flight instructor who has instructed in Invercargill and, more recently, in Fiji. Jennie is able to provide for most members' training needs, from ab initio PPL instruction, through to BFR's, as well as training towards CPL and the C-category flight instructor rating.

07-May-08 Russell Barker First Solo

Congratulations to Russell Barker on his first solo. Something he has been looking forward to for a while, Russell took to the sky himself in ETT this afternoon.

25-Apr-08 CPL For Ray Crow

After unfortunately narrowly missing out on the first attempt Ray got back on the horse right away and made the trip to Dunedin for another CPL flight test, which he passed, congratulations!

28-Mar-08 Flight Test Successes

Congratulations to Matt Cameron and Peter Daniell on passing their CPL flight tests. Also to Julianne Kramer, our newest B Cat instructor!

15-Mar-2008 Members' achievements

This week congratulations are due Alex Turnbull, who passed his PPL flight test, and also to Debbie MacColl, who flew solo for the first time.

14-Mar-2008 Warbirds volunteers required

12-Mar-2008 WHY and MDR Online

04-Mar-2008 New Addition to the Fleet ZK WHY

19-Feb-2008 Tiger in Town

31-Jan-2008 Upper Von BBQ ^?

30-Jan-2008 Recruiting flight instructors

28-Jan-2008 Cheaper flying

24-Jan-2008 First solo - James Marett

24-Jan-2008 Citabria and Tecnam back on line

24-Jan-2008 Jag Air our new neighbour

15-Jan-2008 Membership Secretary

15-Jan-2008 Warbirds over Wanaka

15-Jan-2008 Sale of ZK-ETT