DUCT TAPE - BEATING THE BRUIN

This is an amazing story - during a fly in fishing excursion in the Alaskan wilderness some fishermen left a chilly bin containing bait in the locked plane. The bear ripped it apart. The pilot used his radio and had another pilot bring him 2 new tyres, 3 boxes of duct tape, and a roll of sheet plastic. He patched the plane together, and flew it home!

A DAMN FINE DAY

The parents have arrived for the Xmas break and today the son and heir passed his Helicopter B Cat instructors test . He is the only one so we are very, very proud.

COMPETITION IN THE FRIENDLY SKIES

Yee bloody hah! Finally some competition in the skies around the provinces. Pacific Blue is set to fly We have been gobsmacked by the cost of flights to Invercargill and Queenstown over the past year. It means we give all our spare cash to Air New Zealand instead of spending it in local shops. And the planes are pretty cool too -the Brazilian-built 104-seat Embraer 190 E-Jets.
While we love Air New Zealands on the ground service and the cabin crew are tops, they fall woefully short in getting bags off the plane and the snacks are crap.