May 23 2005
Trainee flying instructors will this week learn how to teach navigation and mountain flying during an exercise over the South Island.
The four trainees, flying the CT-4 Airtrainer, and their instructors will fly the length of the South Island making overnight stops in Dunedin, Stewart Island, Queenstown and Christchurch.
The students are all pilots, learning to become qualified flying instructors at the Central Flying School based at RNZAF Base Ohakea.
Weather permitting, the aircraft are scheduled to making the following stops during the navigation exercise.
Date Stop One Stop Two Overnight
Mon 23 Wigram Dunedin
Tues 24 Omarama Invercargill Stewart Island
Wed 25 Invercargill Milford Sound Queenstown
Thurs 26 Ashburton Wigram
Friday Return to Ohakea
ENDS
For further information please contact Danielle Coe, Defence Public Relations
04 496 0286 or 021 676 338