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Tiki Tour

3/12/2014

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The 'meeting of the waters' - the discoloured Kawarau flow joins the clearer Clutha water at Cromwell township.
Yesterday, I did a couple of cross-country flights in our Skyleader GP One demonstrator light sport aircraft. 

It was neat on one flight to stooge around over areas such as Bendigo + Thomson's Gorge in the Dunstan Mountains, the Omakau/Ophir twin towns in the broad Manuherikia Valley and the extensive gravel tailings from the old Earnscleugh gold dredges. After a brief landing at Alexandra (NZLX), I climbed over the Cairnmuir Mountains, past the Nevis Road which winds its way up to Duffers Saddle and then followed the Bannock Burn down to Cromwell.
Alexandra (with NZLX airport at top right)
Clyde Dam + the man-made Lake Dunstan
Frasers Dam with Remarkable Mtns on skyline
Long 'finals' from Tarras into Wanaka runway 29
I must admit to having a nostalgic moment above the 'meeting of the waters' at Cromwell. Before Lake Dunstan drowned the Cromwell Gorge in the 1980's and submerged the historic Cromwell road bridge, I kayaked the mighty "Cromwell Gap" rapids. All you see now is a placid lake, but then it was a churning mass of white-water. I still remember the adrenalin rush + the power of the water, but today I was calmly observing from far above.
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Low flying, advanced stalls, etc

1/12/2014

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Our GP One in the line-up outside U-Fly Wanaka's hangar
Every few weeks when the spring gales relent a bit, I come up to Wanaka for a couple of days flying in our Skyleader GP One light sport aircraft. 

On one flight today Vince, one of the U-Fly Wanaka instructors, came with me and we did advanced stalls. With some persistence we got the GP One to slightly drop a wing in a very nose-high 'power on' stall. Otherwise it's very benign and controllable in the stall.

We also did some low-level slow flying to simulate being forced down by bad weather. Again the GP One behaved nicely in turns and cross-winds.
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