Originally Posted by
Uncle Chop Chop
I hear there' big new jeta1 tanks installed at NZMC......
Yes, One oil company pulls out of NZMC, and takes all the equipment with them, leaving nothing but mini tankers...
Pioneer have scored a contract with a UK based tour company to fly pax from NZMC to NZCH (or elsewhere), with tours coming through the area usually every second or third day. So the big tanks maybe just for a Convair??
Plus with NZUK not an option (due to minimum runway widths not being enough to carry a DHC-8) if NZMC gets those good strong Westerlies the MacKenzie country gets (87kts recorded on the ground around that area about 2 to 3 weeks ago). Its certainly not like the good old Mt Cook days with 748s flying in and out of there...
If anyone was going to look into something like that, you might want to fly something a tad smaller first, then move into the DHC8-300s...