When people say they’re flying in New Zealand what they usually mean is that they’e flying in South Island. So I thought I’d give North Island a go.
I dug out my PAC 750 XTOL - it seemed the appropriate choice, you might even call it a local legend - and flew from the northernmost airfield in New Zealand, Waitiki Aerodrome (NZWQ):
which for some reason has its airfield on top of a hill and all its parking spots well down that same hill, and travelled 108 NM to Whangarei (NZWR), with its altogether more conventional parking:
