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Mercury Bay Flyer January 2019 Editor: Wally Pendray
021 907 782 email: [email protected]
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Flying Activity: December is one of the busy months of the year for everyone with the approaching Festive Season
capturing most of our spare time. Rainy days before the
Christmas break curtailed much of the flying but post Christmas
gave us the flying weather to get airborne again. Five Whitianga
aircraft made the dash to the NAC BBQ lunch at Whananaki
making it one of the
biggest arrivals up
there to date with
around 27 aircraft
arriving. Thank you
Martin for the
invitation lunch and
success in keeping the weather fine!
The fine weather also encouraged
many Whitianga visitors into the
air with their friends who own
aircraft here as well as a number of others who took the Trial Flight options available through MBAC.
The Christmas Parade for
Whitianga also involved
another exercise with our
RV 12 being loaded onto
Dale’s low loader trailer,
after the wings were
removed by our volunteer group of enthusiasts, and then towed
in the Parade by the Mercury Bay Area School bus driven by Head Master John Wright, to capture the
association that the school has with our MBAC mentoring group in building RV12’s.
Christmas Light Festival Paeroa
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Departure Lounge Cafe
Closed until further Notice ….
OPEN to
suggestion
as to how
to move
forward
from our
current
position.
Expressions of interest sought via [email protected]
Notices from committee:
Hangarage seems to be the main topic these days so get those
requests in if you are wanting / waiting for hangarage for your aircraft.
Works have commenced and great progress made before the
Christmas break.
New Taxiway
signs have been
placed to assist with entry into the refuelling / apron
area. A is now closest to the Clubhouse and B is further
out by the hangars to the east. C is the furthest away from
the Clubhouse, but the first one when leaving the landing
runway 22.
C should only be used for entry to the hangars associated
with this taxiway as soft ground off this entry, towards the Clubhouse, could cause aircraft to get bogged.
MBA flew 24.2 hours in December. A little better than normal!
Roof on!
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Clubhouse Carpark has now been resurfaced wih a
hotmix asphalt coat ready for summer traffic.
Driveway repairs have been completed beside the main
hangar where a burst water main required the new
concrete to be broken to carry out the necessary
repairs.
TCDC District Plan Variation 2 has been published.
https://www.tcdc.govt.nz/dpv2
Mercury Bay Aero Club is now on Facebook so check out the recent happenings.....and future events!
Flight Club Ball Room
Amy can be contacted via phone (021 899 634), email
or via her webpage www.flightclubballroom.co.nz
New Members
New members Geoffrey Hill, David Morris have joined the MBAC this month so please welcome them
into our world when next you see them on the airfield having fun.
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Flying Events
http://www.aviationnews.co.nz/other/calendar/ This is a good list of the must do s this summer flying season
http://www.flyingnz.co.nz/
Hauraki Aero Club
Wings &Wheels
26 January 2019
Thames
Aerodrome
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Whitianga Aviation Events
The Great Northern Air Race is lunch stopping
again this year in Whitianga on 27 January as they
race each other around the upper North Island.
A fun event for those who wish to participate but
also a spectacle to see the arrivals and departures
as they all top up their fuel tanks and eat their
lunch on the stopover.
Annual inspections are well under way as all of our aircraft owners are getting their
inspections carried out in time to enjoy the summer fun of aviating here and there.
Jim hard at work on PA 18
annual inspection
Pete getting it together with V8
now installed and running
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Mercury Bay Model Club
And the rebuilt DC3 now seems to be the FlyDC3 mascot !
The MBAC website allows you to view
the pictures within the newsletter in larger
sizes if you are not receiving them on your
tablet. Remember to check your browser
view if you are unable to download the newsletter on your tablet.
Daylight saving has arrived – yippee! Let’s get out there in our flying machines!
Next Executive Meeting - Saturday 19 January 2019 at 0930hrs
Please Support Our Sponsors:
Whitianga Waterways – www.whitiangawaterways.co.nz
Avsure Insurance – www.avsure.co.nz
Hart & Associates Ltd – Chartered Accounts – www.hartal.co.nz
Wayne is making great progress on the Kittyhawk
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Stop Press
Have you purchased your new VNC charts?
https://shop.aeropath.aero/password
Alternatively, Air Navigation Pro from https://airnavigation.aero/ or
https://www.ozrunways.com/
Are a great way to electronically navigate this great country of ours….
What about that other APP you meant to down load ?…
https://www.airways.co.nz/media-centre/media-statements/pre-flight-info-in-pilots-pockets-
through-ifis-mobile/
New Headgear and shirts now available from Tony Turner 027-314-1826
(Sizes available T Shirts $35 - 2XL, XL, L ,M) Caps $20
Passenger announcement:” Ladies and gentlemen if you wish to smoke, the smoking section on this
airplane is on the wing and if you can light ‘em, you can smoke ‘em!”
Contact Wendy 0210695227 [email protected]
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“Welcome aboard Southwest Flight 245 to Tampa. To operate your seat belt, insert the metal tab
into the buckle and pull tight. It works just like every other seat belt and, if you don’t know how to
operate one, you probably shouldn’t be out in public unsupervised!
Happy Summer Season
Mercury Bay Summer Concert
This event is a BIG one for
WHITIANGA.
It may put pressure on the parking arrangements for
those of you who are flying in, as that is the same day
as the Great Northern Air Race arrival and so the fuel
pumps must be easily accessed for all aircraft.
Last year had Air Race aircraft coming off runway 22
and stopping at Taxiway B as they exited the runway.
We may need to keep overnighting aircraft for the
Summer Concert further way towards the AIRPARK
area as there is ample room on the grass fingers/aprons
that can be used for parking.
This
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Parking available here on the Airpark aprons.
