Hi everyone.
Thanks for all the advice. We took a rental out of the city and made our way up to Poplar Grove. Unsurprisingly (For midday on a cool Tuesday) not a lot of movement there .. so I stuck my nose into the Flying school and got the address of Jim Kidd’s hanger to go and have a chat (and look over Paul Heinrich’s rebuild). On the way out the door I bumped into Blake Thomas who with his Steve and Tina (Mum and Dad) run the engine shop -and whole airfield
Well... 7 hrs later after the best airfield tour ever, a few beers, good stories, and several new friends, we rolled out of there back ‘home’ to the city determined to return next time. Iv already filed my FAApaperwork to get a US conversion to my NZ licence so I can get back to do some flying. I may even try and haul my engine back in a suitcase or two to have it Overrhauled at Poplar Grove...
Sorry to Bill Rusk, FancyPants,Paul and Cubscout whom I missed but I’m sure we will cross paths again. Also have to apologise to the all the folks at the airfield who’s afternoon of productivity was blown the moment 3 Kiwis turned up crawling over their aircraft, cars, toys and privacy with our un-intelligible conversation. Good times.��