Porirua Air Cadets
PLTOFF Chris Asbery A number of cadets volunteered to man the Bunnings Porirua community BBQ on Sunday 13th May to raise funds towards their unit activities. After a quiet morning business picked up and peaked around lunchtime before dying off towards the end of the day. Being Mother’s Day, plus the rather poor weather probably didn’t help sales, but … Read more
During the Easter 2012 school holiday, LAC Kadin Fowler was selected to attend the Junior Leaders Course at Ohakea – he reports on his experience:- “I was glad and surprised that I had been selected to attend the junior leaders course, the only person in fact who had been selected from my squadron. The junior … Read more
During the second week of the Easter school holidays, Corporal Asbery attended the Senior Leaders course at Ohakea, he reports:- “The senior leaders course is a leadership course and for the central region is held at RNZAF base Ohakea. The course runs for 1 week and we stay in individual barrack rooms for the duration … Read more
Over Easter Corporal Asbery was given the opportunity to accompany No. 1 Squadron on their trip to the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow as a last minute replacement due to an illness with another cadet – he reports on his trip:- “We began the trip on Wednesday 4th April with a ride on the Interislander, I … Read more
Annually ANZAC Day is a busy time for No. 41 Squadron. This year the squadron attended 4 ANZAC Day ceremonies around Porirua to honour those who have gone before. An early start around 4.30am meant the cadets and officers were able to assemble at Porirua RSA for a little bit of marching practice, to help wake up, … Read more
On Saturday 14th April Flight Sergeant Brown, Corporal Asbery, Leading Air Cadet Haenga-Sutton, Cadet Bassus and Cadet Shannon rendezvoused with Pilot Officer Asbery and a contingent of cadets from both the Army and Sea cadets to distribute poppies and collect for the 2012 Poppy Day Appeal at the Farmer’s Market in Cobham Court in Porirua. … Read more
A rather dark and early start saw nearly 30 cadets assemble at TS Taupo at 0630hrs for a quick headcount and to assign transport across the various parents cars before we all headed north for the Ohakea Airshow. The drive was easy until we were diverted around the 3 sides of Ohakea air base where … Read more
Report by Pilot Officer Asbery and Sergeant Jess Toohey:- Once per term No. 41 Squadron has a “let your hair down” fun evening that is called Superclash! This is basically a non-uniformed evening of games and fun, sometimes with a competitive element between the different flights within the unit. This time the cadets arrived in … Read more
Over the weekend of the 23rd to 25th of March, Pilot Officers Asbery and Brown from No. 41 Squadron attended the Central Area ‘Range Safety Officer’ (RSO) course at RNZAF Ohakea. Here they were taken through the drills, preparations and skills required to safely take cadets target shooting on a range. After a morning of … Read more
We are planning to attend the Ohakea Airshow as part of the 75th Anniversary celebration of the RNZAF as a unit at the end of March. Below is a exert from the media release for the event:- Modern day aircraft from six nations will join Mustangs and Spitfires of the past at the Royal New … Read more