Porirua Air Cadets
Notices that relate to Training in the squadron
Cadet Sean Eagles reports on his flight at Kapiti Districts Aero Club on the 22nd Feb. Even though I have had a few flights already I still had a nervous feeling. But when I got in the air it was really cool. I flew past the Waikanae River mouth and did revision on turning, ascending … Read more
CDT Nikki Hurnen reports on her second flying lesson: It was about 1600hrs when we took off from Paraparaumu Airport in a Cessna C-152. We headed up to about 2000 meters and then the pilot gave me the controls. We flew around over the city to start the lesson then headed out to Kapiti Island. … Read more
Members of the Squadron are currently deployed on Exercise Cadet150. Photos and stories from the Exercise can be found at www.cadet150.com. Today stories were run on both TVNZ and TV3. The link to the TVNZ story is here. Leading Air Cadet Grace O’Neill reports on the Sea Elective: On the 24th of January one of … Read more
LAC Matthew Brooker reports on the recent RNZAF Sponsored RNZAF Museum Trip: On Monday the 20th of January CPL Drummond, WO Fowler, UO Asbery, UO McLeod, PLTOFF Brown and me went on a day trip to Christchurch to visit the Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum. We flew down at 1015am on the Air Force … Read more
The planned activities for 2014 have been added to the Events calendar. Please note that the NZCF activity dates from 1 July 2014 have not been released yet.
Exercise Kiwi marks the end of year for No. 41 Squadron and is the only non-educationally focused and purely fun camp of the year. This year fellow ATC units from Wellington, Lower Hutt, Kapiti, Palmerston North and Sea Cadets from Porirua and Levin were all invited along too. A total of some 120 cadets and … Read more
Today the shooting results were released for the National Shooting Competition, the Wallingford Shooting Competition. Team A of No. 41 Squadron finished third nationally and I am pleased to confirm the awarding of Marksman badges to LAC Ngaro T. (86) and CPL Ogilvie (80). Team B was 11th Nationally (6th in Central Area) and Team … Read more
On 9 September 2013 the Squadron held its termly Superclash event. Part of the event involved the cadets shaving balloons…
Leading Air Cadet Grace O’Neill reports on the Squadron shoot held 28 July 2013: On Sunday the 28th of July, 12 cadets went shooting including me. At the start I must admit I was doing horrible but slowly started to improve. Outside in the waiting area most people were talking with the very nice journalist. … Read more
CDT Walker reports on her first flight with Helipro on the 15th June 2013. It’s 2.15pm on the afternoon of Saturday the 15th June and I’m in the cockpit of one of the smallest aircraft (Cessna C-152) that I have ever seen! After we reached 1000 feet, we headed out to Kapiti Island. It is … Read more