March 6, 20242 yr Probably not a big deal for many but I live in Porirua, New Zealand so a C5 Galaxy almost never comes here. Last night my 9 year old daughter came into my room to say good night but out of the corner of her eye she said, 'Look Daddy there is an airplane coming straight for me!!!' so I got up to take a look and off to the horizon was an airplane, not out of the ordinary other then the only planes to fly into our local airport are A320's, Dash 8's and ATR's for the most part, This was after dark so no way to tell what it was other then the lights on this one didn't look like an A320. So instead of saying Go To bed its just a plane I told her she could watch it fly by. To me surprise as it got closer you could tell this was really big. So it flew past and I put her to bed. Out of curiosity I checked Flight Aware and it was Flight Number RCH125, operated by Air Mobility Command 125 of the US Air Force and was a C5 Galaxy. Too bad it was too dark to see it I am just glad my daughter shares my enthusiasm of Airplanes and spotted this was out of the ordinary. In the morning when she woke up I educated her about the C5, she is delighted she spotted one. Not sure what this ones mission is usually they fly into Christchurch for Antarctic Missions, not Wellington this doesn't happen very often. Edited March 6, 20242 yr by Matthew Kane Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
March 6, 20242 yr More than likely it was a weather or ops divert from Christchurch. I used to fly C-141 missions to NZCH once upon a time, and I seem to remember that we used NZWN as an alternate when flight planning. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
March 6, 20242 yr Author 3 minutes ago, Bob Scott said: More than likely it was a weather or ops divert from Christchurch. I used to fly C-141 missions to NZCH once upon a time, and I seem to remember that we used NZWN as an alternate when flight planning. That would make sense, I couldn't find any reports on a mission to Wellington, if it was a planned flight the plane spotters would have been aware of that Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
March 9, 20242 yr nice spotting.. yeah its hard to spot in the dark!! darrensfs9site.weebly.com @darrenvox My Youtube Channel
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