Gday---Gidday!!!---yeah I was down at Mainland yesterday and they seem a great unit. They have Cessna 152s and a beautiful Piper Seneca 3 turbo for multi IF training. Another great option if you really want to hone your flying skills is the Wakatipu Aero Club in Queenstown. These guys are pretty hot and send alot of pilots onto their first flying job with the likes of the Milford pilots, whereby incidently the hands on flying in second to none. To fly with any of these operators you need a 50 hour mountain flying course from the aeroclub. They are a great organisation with good people, accomodation is easy to get and so are part time jobs and hey- you're in Queenstown New Zealand...Look them up on Google---Wakatipu Aero Club Queenstown...good luck.