170 kilometers in New Zealand

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170 kilometers in New Zealand

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<div id="1606135297"><i>Flying into the mountains on the South Island</i><br><p>Ian Clark <<a href="http://ozreport.com/emailer.php?toName= ... "><Ian></a>> writes:</p><p class="BN">John Smith, Matt Barlow and I managed to fly cross country from Coronet Peak in Queenstown, New Zealand yesterday (22nd Nov).  John and I flew most of the way together to Lake Ohau (130 km) while Matt was about 45 minutes behind us and managed to land at The Hermitage – Mt. Cook (170km).</p><p class="BN">Below is the link to the Ayvri track logs.</p><p class="BN">It was probably the most awe inspiring flight I've had here in the south island of New Zealand with very strong climbs (1600 ft/min) up to 9500ft, large lake crossings and flying into mountain ranges that just took my breath away.</p><p class="BN">Interesting to see that Matt took a very similar line to John and I and was getting climbs in almost identical places despite only having had a brief discussion beforehand on what the goal was (which very generally was to fly 100 miles or break the NZ distance record (202km)).</p><p class="BN"><a target="_blank" href="https://ayvri.com/scene/r7j0ovdvjy/ckht ... ></p></div>
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Great flights over spectacular country - & I liked the visualisation on the replay - it told thousands of words!.. :-) :D
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Nice to know that John Smith is still flying, after his enforced hiatus.
I had wondered if the New Zealand CAA would try and blame this one on him!

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More on that soon.
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