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Press Release – Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of NZ Kpiti, 15 December 2020 – Rolling closures at Kpiti Coast Airport will impact the safety of pilots and small aircraft travelling New Zealand who rely on the airport for safe harbour in poor weather and other events when travelling between the North …
Kāpiti, 15 December 2020 – Rolling closures at Kāpiti Coast Airport will impact the safety of pilots and small aircraft travelling New Zealand who rely on the airport for safe harbour in poor weather and other events when travelling between the North and South Islands.
Steve Brown, President of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of NZ (AOPANZ) says the rolling closures raise unintended safety concerns and will impact pilots transiting through Cook Strait who use Omaka in Blenheim and Kāpiti Airport in Paraparaumu as the staging points for their travel around NZ.
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 11:08 am
Kāpiti, 15 December 2020 - Rolling
closures at Kāpiti Coast Airport will impact the safety of
pilots and small aircraft travelling New Zealand who rely on
the airport for safe harbour in poor weather and other
events when travelling between the North and South
Islands.
Steve Brown, President of the Aircraft Owners
and Pilots Association of NZ (AOPANZ) says the rolling
closures raise unintended safety concerns and will impact
pilots transiting through Cook Strait who use Omaka in
Blenheim and Kāpiti Airport in Paraparaumu as the staging
points for their travel around NZ.
“Although the
rolling closures have been made with safety assumptions, it