Yesterday and today
YesterdayYesterday's weather was pretty much awful for VFR [Visual Flight Rules] flying, so there was no flying from the Club. There were a couple of IFR visitors. The first was this Diamond DA42 Twinstar, ZK-CTH, from CTC in Hamilton.The second was a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, ZK-MYH, registered to Air2There.com.Both of these aircraft were parked up outside the aeroclub. The Twinstar was held up for a couple of hours until the weather was at IFR minima for the flight...

Last weekend's visitors
Here are a couple of visitors from last weekend. The first is General Dynamics Allison Convair 440/580, ZK-CIE, registered to Air Chathams Ltd, of the Chathams Island. This aircraft was left at Wellington at the conclusion of a charter.The second is the RNZAF Boeing B757, NZ7572 departing Wellington. This is the biggest aircraft to regularly visit Wellington.

Gulf Air Airbus A340 departing Wellington
Well, I missed the departure, but Silke [Thanks!] has kindly given me a video of the event, so here it is.

Another Gulf Air A340 picture
I popped out to the aero club today, and seeing the Gulf Air Airbus A340 parked on the "freight" apron, I popped over and grabbed some more pictures. Here is one of the better ones.As I've said before, it's an awesome looking aircraft! Enjoy!

Gulf Air Airbus A340 landing at Wellington video
One of this blog's readers mentioned that there was a video of the Gulf Air Airbus a340 landing at Wellington [Thanks, Grayson]. I thought that some of you might be interested in this, so here it is: