Warbirds over Wanaka Trip 2008

Our Yak syndicate chief pilot (JP) decided he was going to drive down to Wanaka for the WoW airshow this year, so he was looking for a volunteer to ferry the aircraft down country. Well, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, I stuck my hand up straight away. I met up with seven other Yaks at New Plymouth and flew down to Wanaka with that group.

The route on the way down was Te Kowhai - New Plymouth (overnight) then New Plymouth - Paraparaumu - Kaikoura - Ashburton - Wanaka. The trip back was just a reversal of that. I didn't take the family camera as my nephew James was having a birthday party that weekend, so the only photo I have at the moment is of us getting ready to depart Te Kowhai (Rodney in the back seat.)

It was a good trip but 9.9 hours in a Yak-52 is enough to try anyone's backside endurance. Our newly installed Garmin Pilot III GPS worked a treat though.