Welcome to the Tauranga Aeroclub

Here at the Tauranga Aero Club we can provide you with the flight experience of a life time, from your first introductory flight lesson through to a magical scenic flight that you will remember for a long time. Located at Tauranga in the spectacular Bay of Plenty we have it all, superb scenery, magical seascapes, steaming volcanoes, pristine beaches and a favorable climate and environment for flight training. For more information please phone 07 575 3210 or email flytac@xtra.co.nz.

TAC News March 2010

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Well done Team!

Nat-Team

Fantastic results from the FlyingNZ Nationals at Hastings this last weekend

Wigram Cup  (club team event)

1st   (John Brunskill, Lyndal Huxford, Daniel Campbell and Daniel Firth)
Daniel Campbell and Lyndal Huxford both 1st in their events

North Shore Trophy  (for the aero club with the most points overall)

Basic Aerobatic trophy:  David Campbell

Primary Aerobatic cup:  Trish Stephens

Forced Landing trophy:   John BrunskillJunior Navigation trophy:   Paul Taylor

Formation 3’s   John Brunskill, Shane Anderson and David Campbell

We also picked up 2 x 2nd places and 5 x 3rd places

Then because the Australian champions were here this year a team was selected from the winners of NZ champs to fly against them and our Formation 3 team and John Brunskill who had won the Forced Landing were in the team. The New Zealand Team won by a margin of 3 to 1. So consequently we won the Wings Trans Tasman cup as well.

Great day at club circuit comps

circ-land

Last Sunday we had the Open Circuits and landings , the weather was fantastic and a strong field of 26 contested the competition. Results were as follows

1st Dave Campbell                                 Private Owners     1st Dave Campbell
2nd Andrew Thompson                                                         2nd Shane Anderson
3rd John Brunskill                                                                  3rd Dick Hansen
4th Aidan Campbell
5th Wayne Jenner
6th Daniel Campbell
7th Shane Anderson
8th Shane Robinson

SAA WEEKEND 5/6/7 FEB 2010

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saa-feb

We just hosted the annual Sport Aviation Associations meeting during Waitangi weekend. This is held every two years at Tauranga with Ashburton hosting them on the alternate year. The club was extremely busy cooking breakfast from Friday through to Sunday mornings, hosting a Kiwi Spit Roast Wings Award Dinner on the Friday night and a BBQ for 200 people for the Gala Dinner and prizegiving on the Saturday night.

The SAA had their AGM on Saturday and two fly-aways – one to Matamata on Friday which was a plane ‘efficiency race’ and on Saturday 32 planes went to Galatea to participate in the SAA competitions and visit the local Beer can museum. Several members from out of town set up camp on the airfield. Most members agreed that it was an excellent weekend. Fantastic weather throughout meant a large attendance, with an especially large crowd attending the airshow which the SAA has always hosted during their weekend in Tauranga

Congratulations

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Three new PPL’s in December / Jan. Ian Lloyd, Russel Borman and Dave Tipper. Well done guys we’ll see you at the bar!