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Speaker 1: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well? Thanksully,

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Speaker 1: Yes it is playing a few of them carving up

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Speaker 1: the skies above Ashburton this week for something called the

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Speaker 1: acro Fest. Andy Love is the man who helps spin

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Speaker 1: the propeller on this morning.

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Speaker 2: Yea it mate, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: Not the first time that Ashburton's played host to this event.

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Speaker 1: A remind us what it is?

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Speaker 2: It's south On Acrofest. Yes, it's hosted by the New

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Speaker 2: Zealander A Better Club and we help We get assistance

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Speaker 2: from the New Zealand war Bird Association with the setup

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Speaker 2: of the event, approval and things. And we're hosted by

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Speaker 2: Mid Canary Ara Club in Ashburton. So the event started

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Speaker 2: a Marker and Marlborough in twenty fifteen and we've been

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Speaker 2: in Ashburten since twenty twenty. And boy, oh boy, the

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Speaker 2: weather that is something else this week. It's stunning, absolutely

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Speaker 2: beautiful down here.

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Speaker 1: I heard a bit of the Ruckers yesterday and it

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Speaker 1: was just glorious. Once we shake the cloud today looks

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Speaker 1: pretty similar to hot work of anything. What makes Ashburton

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Speaker 1: in particular such a great spot for this?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's absolutely magic. So it's basically my home arefort

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Speaker 2: I'm from Lincoln, Christ yes, and I've got I'm based

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Speaker 2: down here, so i helped mc canary Era CLA with

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Speaker 2: constructing and things from time to time. And it's just

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Speaker 2: a very quiet general aviation airfield. It's far enough away

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Speaker 2: from big, big places like crash stations to need and

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Speaker 2: to have really good airspace, and so it's like an

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Speaker 2: upside down wedding cake in terms of when you're flying around,

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Speaker 2: how much height you can get before you're in controlled airspace.

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Speaker 2: It's quite it's peaceful. It's still good, like the council

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Speaker 2: still do well out of it in terms of landing

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Speaker 2: fees and movements. But it's just an airfield that seems

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Speaker 2: to tick over and it's just so peaceful, like I'm

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Speaker 2: here now and the light westerly breeze just quiet, peaceful

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Speaker 2: and really good community here at the airfield. And also

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Speaker 2: all our neighbors, everyone who lives around the airfield are

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Speaker 2: really supportive of what we do and it's just a

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Speaker 2: really magic spot.

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Speaker 1: Well that's me lucky enough to live just a couple

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Speaker 1: of blocks away, so I'm getting a free show of

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Speaker 1: sorts here. How many pilots and planes have we got

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Speaker 1: in town for it.

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Speaker 2: We've got we've got seventeen pilots competing. A few of

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Speaker 2: those are in two classes where Itch brings it up

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Speaker 2: to twenty entrance. We had actually twenty one pilots registered

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Speaker 2: and all ready to come down. Unfortunately a few with

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Speaker 2: you know, these things happen with broken aeroplanes and one

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Speaker 2: or two family sicknesses and and things like that. But

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Speaker 2: we yeah, we've got a tremendous interest in this event.

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Speaker 2: It's actually it's the event is as big as our

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Speaker 2: Nationals which is up in the Wairappa every year, and

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Speaker 2: it's it's a really grown a lot of good volunteers

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Speaker 2: and just amazing people. We've got participants from Tiana, from

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Speaker 2: as far away as Auckland and even further.

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Speaker 1: Do buy Do buy, Oh my goodness, that's a long

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Speaker 1: trip in Assessna. That that person from Tiana? That is

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Speaker 1: that a stuntman. Ivan Kripner is mister.

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Speaker 2: Krypner just a few minutes ago. Yeah, Ivans Ivan's back

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Speaker 2: flying unlimited in his pits and he'll be also displaying

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Speaker 2: at Wanaka and we're doing his solo display again at

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Speaker 2: one of his freestyle.

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Speaker 1: Is a freak immune to the effects of g force.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right here. I've been doing a long time.

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Speaker 2: You haven't kind of got wings of the water as well.

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Speaker 2: The floatplane business, they've got two stunning Cessna's and they

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Speaker 2: do a commercial and said down downtown O. So he's

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Speaker 2: having a week off to go and fly abouts instead.

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Speaker 1: So am I correct them saying there was some competition

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Speaker 1: yesterday and a bit more to come today, So if

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Speaker 1: we do want to catch a glimpse, what are we

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Speaker 1: in store for?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right to our pilots. A cold computer briefing

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Speaker 2: is eight o'clock and the flying will start from about

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Speaker 2: nine point thirty and it should run through to lunchtime.

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Speaker 2: We're quite a big segment to get through this morning.

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Speaker 2: It's just over the airfield on the northeastern side, so

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Speaker 2: that basically there's a really good area public car park

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Speaker 2: and things and all around the southern side of the airfield,

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Speaker 2: but also at the Ara Club car park where you

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Speaker 2: can see the whole thing and you're at a safe distance.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely come and have a look. And so we'll be

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Speaker 2: circulating all morning. Unfortunately, we had a couple of airplane

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Speaker 2: issues yesterday, so the afternoon's going a bit slow going

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Speaker 2: with only one or two airplanes being shared with it

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Speaker 2: some of our junior pilots. Three of my students are

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Speaker 2: here actually competing for the first time, which is super exciting.

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Speaker 2: So the morning will be fully jam packed and the

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Speaker 2: afternoon will be fully steady. Because it has been so good,

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Speaker 2: we actually haven't we're not running late, so normally normally

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Speaker 2: we run really late into Saturday, but now we're actually

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Speaker 2: going to have a slightly smaller program Saturday, but will

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Speaker 2: feature our Formulut Freestyles, which is where Ivan and the

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Speaker 2: South and a few others will be tearing around with

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Speaker 2: the smoke systems going with music and all the rest

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Speaker 2: of it. So that's Saturday, about midday to one o'clock