Helicopter offends mountain. Pilot fined.

Posted on April 9, 2013 by KG

FFS! More pandering to primitivism:
‘A commercial pilot was today fined $3750 for the “gravely offensive” act of hovering a helicopter over the summit of Aoraki/Mt Cook on Christmas Eve in 2011.
….In the summary of facts read to the court, the Department of Conservation (DOC) said the 3754-metre peak represented, to Ngai Tahu, “the most sacred of ancestors, from whom Ngai Tahu descend and who provide the iwi with its sense of communal identity, solidarity and purpose”.
“who provide the iwi with its sense of communal identity, solidarity and purpose”? I thought the welfare system and the rip-off-whitey industry was supposed to do that?

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57 Responses to Helicopter offends mountain. Pilot fined.

  1. Brown says:
    April 9, 2013 at 14:10

    If we could only shed this bollocks like Mt Cook shed a bit of itself a few years ago. Woosh, all over. The judge may believe this stone age nonsense (as aside from the legal breach) but to articulate it in public as well takes stupidity to a high level. I despair as to when or where is it going to stop and the damage it will cause along the way.

    • KG says:
      April 9, 2013 at 14:22

      It will only stop when people grow a pair, refuse to be silenced by the cowards who use the “racism” epithet to silence dissent and DEMAND it be stopped, Brown.

  2. Kiwi Dave says:
    April 9, 2013 at 14:16

    “In passing sentence, Judge Joanna Maze said the offence was “seen as one of sacrilege to those to whom Aoraki/Mt Cook is of central cultural importance”.

    So we now have state enforced religious laws?

    • KG says:
      April 9, 2013 at 14:20

      Yes, you do. Endorsed and promoted by yet another judicial activist scumbag. :evil:

    • thor42 says:
      April 9, 2013 at 16:33

      “So we now have state enforced religious laws?”

      A very good point – looks like we do.
      If I were that pilot, I would use that argument to appeal the sentence. What the F**K business is it of the state to decide that something is “sacrilege”?
      I wish the pilot had told the judge to “go f**k herself”.
      Politically-correct bitch.

  3. WebWrat says:
    April 9, 2013 at 14:39

    I hovered over the top of Cook one morning in a Cessna 185! I guessed the wind at about 80 knots …. closed the throttle and soared the summit ridge for about twenty minutes.

    Did you know climbers aren’t allowed to eat their lunch on the top of Cook either?

  4. KG says:
    April 9, 2013 at 15:06

    Drop me at the top, and I’ll piss on it, Wratty. :twisted:
    That 185 must have an L/D ratio of about 1:1 :mrgreen:

  5. the conservative says:
    April 9, 2013 at 15:20

    If it weren’t in New Zealand I would think it was satire.

  6. KG says:
    April 9, 2013 at 15:25

    It’s a sad fact that the place has become self-satirizing, Conservative.

  8. Oswald Bastable says:
    April 9, 2013 at 17:28

    Thanks- now I have to go rub salt in my eyes! :shock:

  9. Oswald Bastable says:
    April 9, 2013 at 17:46

    Here is another one for our ‘special’ people:
    Put down anything you may be holding and don’t eat, drink or smoke whilst watching!

    http://youtu.be/y4PzthZ0Pyo

  10. KG says:
    April 9, 2013 at 17:52

    Gaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!!! That particular marrrdi is close to the top of my list for…um…remedial treatment.
    The fat, smug, invincibly ignorant racist bitch. :evil:

    • Darin says:
      April 9, 2013 at 22:43

      A pump up sprayer and some Para would do wonders for the weed problem and for that matter the lefty problem too. :twisted:

  11. Paul Marsden says:
    April 9, 2013 at 18:56

    WTF..??!! Just couldn’t believe I heard this absurd nonsense correctly until I checked here.

    Judge “Yeah right” Joanna Maze, needs to be hung, drawn and quartered. If Maze is the benchmark by which we measure the calibre of the judiciary in NZ, she has just made them a bigger laughing stock than they already are.

    God, give me strength! (AND we pay these morons..??!!)

  12. KG says:
    April 9, 2013 at 19:14

    :shock: I don’t even want to think about that….

  13. dondiego says:
    April 9, 2013 at 20:03

    A Warrior of the Week nomination. I thought this would be a good thread for it.
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8528092/Harawiras-nephews-in-court

    Got it from a commenter an John Ansell’s blog~

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      April 10, 2013 at 04:45

      “defence counsel indicated the case against Mau Harawira would likely be resolved with police when they were back in court later this month”

      Meaning, defence counsel intends to bully the police into surrendering and withdrawing the charges. The Hatfield ‘family’ must remain beyond the law at all times.

      “Mau Harawira is alleged to have entered the property through the front deck and located the victim in his bedroom, slapping him and throwing him to the ground, the summary said.
      Enesi Taito is then said to have come through the front door and he and Mau punched and kicked the boy’s head and torso as he lay on the ground, curled in the foetal position and trying to cover his head with his hands.”

      The article implies charges of the nature of assault. Given the two paras above, why were the fucking savages not charged with home invasion? (A: see my comment above).

  14. KG says:
    April 9, 2013 at 20:10

    And working Kiwis pay for these walking dog turds……I’m willing to bet not one of them has a job.

  15. Paul Marsden says:
    April 9, 2013 at 20:20

    There must be more to this story unless we have the dumbest judge in NZ presiding over this case. The pilot must have committed an offence under some statutory regulation, so A) What is it? and b) If he was rescuing say, some mountaineer from the same mountain, then I assume that would be a defence for his actions?

    Enlighten me please…?? (Meanwhile, I remain enraged!)

  16. nominto says:
    April 9, 2013 at 21:16

    I think the actual Helicopter itself will need counselling ….
    ‘that big scarey mountain ……forced to hover there against it’s will.’.
    there must be an ACC form somewhere..
    poooooor poor helicopter..let’s have a real gushy sympathy story on prime time TV.
    signed : Stop Helicopter Insensitivity Teamhttp://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cry.gif

  17. Oswald Bastable says:
    April 10, 2013 at 04:51

    Anyone else notice that the fine was the height of the mountain in metres?

    Plus how do you get into the hover at 370o metres? (For those who know anything about the physics of flying rotary winged aircraft…)

  18. KG says:
    April 10, 2013 at 05:20

    My understanding was that in fact it was a trick photograph, Os, and that the guy wasn’t actually hovering over the summit.

  19. KG says:
    April 10, 2013 at 05:24

    ‘… At the time he claimed another pilot in the area had suggested that if he was to fly level with the summit he could get photos “to look like he was flying over the top of the mountain”.

    He denied landing on or hovering over the summit, claiming it would have been easy for someone to doctor the photos to make it appear he had landed…’

    Yet he entered a guilty plea. ??

    • Oswald Bastable says:
      April 10, 2013 at 05:27

      Plead guilty and ‘get off with a fine’ or risk his license, perhaps?

      • Oswald Bastable says:
        April 10, 2013 at 05:30

        My understanding is that it is near impossible to hover at those altitudes in that thin air.

        Something is not right here.

        • mawm says:
          April 10, 2013 at 10:57

          The judge perhaps – determining the outcome based on ‘sensitivities ‘ rather than fact.

  20. MvL says:
    April 10, 2013 at 05:44

    A couple of things are not right here………
    1. DOC are braying..
    Acting Aoraki area manager Ronan Grew said the department would not ” tolerate such flagrant disregard for flying rules in the park and near this culturally important mountain. :twisted:

    2. A pilot speaks..
    You can’t hover at that height. It’s impossible to hover a helicopter out of ground effect at a height of close to 9000 feet,” he said yesterday. “But people keep going on about it. They seem to love the word hover when talking about helicopter operations.
    All Here.

    • Brown says:
      April 10, 2013 at 06:02

      If directly over the peak as claimed its in ground effect. A few more jobs need to go at DOC I think if they have time for this nonsense.

  21. Octagongrappler says:
    April 10, 2013 at 08:04

    It is kinda Ironic that maardi do some of the most offensive things, yet they are able to enshrine mystical/mythology into our laws and politicians… :evil:

      • mawm says:
        April 10, 2013 at 11:03

        Good one!

        “Samuel Francis argued that the problems of the managerial state extend to issues of crime and justice. In 1992, he introduced the word “anarcho-tyranny” into the paleocon vocabulary. He once defined it this way: “we refuse to control real criminals (that’s the anarchy) so we control the innocent (that’s the tyranny).” http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_mail.gif

  22. Barry says:
    April 10, 2013 at 13:41

    This Mt Cook garbage is just another example of how low NZ has sunk. It’s not like a serious country any more. It’s had this done to it by its politicians. The whole nightmare is past the point of no return, most decent people think – some of them think that a civil war with fighting in the streets, for us to take back our country from the part-maoris to whom it has been illegally and immorally and corruptly given, is inevitable now. It’s a textbook example of a once-decent white Western country committing suicide (suicide by politician) by cutting its own throat.

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      April 10, 2013 at 15:02

      It’ll never happen, Barry (fighting in the streets, that is). Kiwis have been conditioned over a century to meekly accept whatever the government does to them. It’s a crying shame what’s become of a once-proud and -great little nation.

      • Barry says:
        April 11, 2013 at 12:08

        Gantt, I’m sorry to say that I think you are correct. Our little country has become a textbook case of suicide-by-politician – a lesson in a how a country cuts it’s own throat.

        • Barry says:
          April 11, 2013 at 12:11

          Please ignore the apostrophe in “it’s”!

          • KG says:
            April 11, 2013 at 12:26

            No Apostrophe Police here, Barry. :lol:
            We care not about spelling or any other technicalities–it’s the thoughts that matter.

  23. john says:
    April 10, 2013 at 16:28

    Their “ancestor” is a hunk of rock??
    Kinda figures. :roll:

  25. KG says:
    April 11, 2013 at 12:28

    Bastards. Half a century of dole payments, housing and medical care courtesy of the taxpayer are obviously insufficient.
    That’s the problem with breeding an entitlement mentality.

  26. mistress mara says:
    April 11, 2013 at 15:10

    On the Harewira charm school dropouts going to a nearby Blockhouse Bay beach …. a few kms from AK city … by chance I had a wee look at that beach last week thinking it might be nice for a spot of fishing for a few tiddlers, peace, sea air, general contemplation . a root around rock pools and a gin. It’s tidal and the tide was out so one had to walk a fair distance past the mud flats to open sea. I decided against this given the general nature of the bros loitering about looking bored and wired, the Macca meal leftovers, KFC boxes and the general air of uncertainty. I’m more game than most old sheilas but I’m not stupid. This part of Auckland, among others, is stuffed.

  27. KG says:
    April 11, 2013 at 16:09

    Yet another part of NZ rendered off-limits by brown thugs, Mara. :evil:

  28. mistress mara says:
    April 11, 2013 at 16:49

    YEP. :sad:

  29. mistress mara says:
    April 11, 2013 at 17:08

    Upon reconsideration, fuck it, I’m going back. I will let you know how the fishing goes.

  30. KG says:
    April 11, 2013 at 17:39

    Just take care, eh? :sad:

  31. Cadwallader says:
    April 12, 2013 at 15:18

    I cannot begin to imagine why sticking a helicopter atop Mt Cook can be offensive t anyone…trick photography or not. Stupid dumb Judge.

    O/T Have a look at Lindsay Mitchell’s blog…Viscount Monckton gets into dribbly manipulative academics. (OK He gets in to lying Uni staff.)