New Zealand! What A Place!!

[Dave71K]

[center]I almost didn't take the 'bug down to New Zealand and WHAT a mistake that would have been!

All I can say is it's breath taking! Straight up the most amazing place I've ever been flying.
There's fjords followed by valleys, followed by mountains and more valleys, it's a fast jet pilots heaven.

If you haven't flown there yet I recommend you get your self and a fast jet to Queenstown Airport NZQN take off and enjoy the amazing landscape!

Anyway here are a few shots I took there.














Seriously can you believe this landscape!

[todayshorse]

'Watch the mountains!' - Even though the hard deck for this hop is 10,000ft [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif]

[andy190]

Great shots. It looks even better in real life. Unfortunately you chose the wrong plane. The views would have been better in a piper cub. There is some really great scenery for nz here. I

[Dave71K]

[quote]Great shots. It looks even better in real life. Unfortunately you chose the wrong plane. The views would have been better in a piper cub. There is some really great scenery for nz here. I

[andy190]

[quote]I think it depends what your into I much prefer seeing scenery whiz by at 300knots than toddling along in a Cub.

That maybe a British thing though because most of our valleys are full are RAF/USAF jets practicing low level flying!

This video is a pretty good demonstration of what I'm talking about

[F35LightningII]

I've never been so happy I live in NZ. 

[Club508]

Amazing shots!  You really caught the scenery!
And I am SO going flying there!
That's exactly what I'd call paradise!  I simply LOVE flying things through mountains, following rivers, etc.!  I think I'll go have me some fun in my new upgraded C208B.

And as of my preference, I really don't tend to care so long as it's not going so fast you have to overstress the aircraft to follow something and that it atleast has enough power to follow a river up a mountain.