On Apr 4, 2:28 pm, Marty Shapiro
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On Apr 4, 10:01 am, Marty Shapiro
wrote:
"chris" wrote
oups.com:

Will you fly with a new moon and CAVU weather, especially
over open
country? You've got the same problem. Does NZ permit night
flight without an instrument rating and/or being on an instrument
flight plan?

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Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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I am not sure if it's law or just our club, but even with a night
rating you aren't meant to do cross country flights. Stay within a
certain distance of the club. I think it's 25nm but not sure

That sure sounds like a club rule. But even limiting you to
25nm
doesn't guarantee you will always have friendly terrain underneath
you to land in an emergency, especially on a dark night.

If you are properly rated for night flight, this seems like
just
another senseless rule. I can see a club putting in a rule like this
for students and maybe even low time members, but for everyone?

My "favorite" club rule, and this was present at one time in
the rules
for at least 3 clubs at a nearby airport, was the one prohibiting
landings on runways less than 3,000' long. This airport's only
runway is 2,443' long. I always wondered where the club expected
members to return the aircraft while complying with this rule.

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Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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No, it sure doesn't guarantee friendly terrain. Which is why I
haven't got a night rating yet, I don't like that idea very much.

I heard once a good thing to do during a forced landing at night is to
turn your landing light on, if you don't like what you see, turn it
off again :-)

Absolutely!



Another reason I haven't gone for my night rating yet is this part of
the country is fog city during the winter, and it's more often than
not foggy at the airport. I don't like the idea of coming back and
being stuck unable to land. Apparently the tower watches for signs of
fog forming and tells anyone in the area to get their asses back
pronto. If they miss out there is a set procedure to fly to a certain
major airport which doesn't get fogged in, which is 25 mins flight
time away at a certain altitude. Don't like that idea either,
really... Especially if I gotta work the next day...

Wow, I thought I had made up some good excuses for missing work. :-)
That sure is good service you are getting from your tower. Sounds like you
have your own version of LA's "June Gloom".

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Silicon Rallye Inc.

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Most of New Zealand doesn't suffer from fog excessively, but the
Waikato region where I am based, although much better than it used to
be, still has some bad fogs.. Some winters, most days the fog clears
about 1pm and rolls back in at 3pm...

We actually had fog two nights this past week, and summer has only
just gone!!!