Bluegrass Airlines, January 2011

Mount Cook Airlines by Allan Lowson

(picture copyright Bjorn Larsson www.timetableimages.com)

Mount Cook Airlines is currently a subsidiary of Air New Zealand operating internal flights within New Zealand as one of three companies forming Air New Zealand Link.

The original airline grew from a group of companies founded and operated by the Wigley family to encourage tourism to the Mount Cook area of South Island. The airline had several false starts before establishing regular scheduled flights in 1960 with DC-3s as shown in these routes.

These routes were taken from a timetable from 1963 which is displayed on www.timetableimages.com .

As the flights run down Lake Pukaki, I have included the overhead bearing for Pukaki airfield to keep the route – it is not a stop. An airfiled at Cromwell is listed in the timetable as an alternate for Queenstown, but it is not available in the default fs9 airfields so we have not included it here.

Christchurch – Dunedin Route (MC1 & MC2) – Mon,Wed,Fri

Heading	Distance	Down	City Name	ICAO	Up	Heading	Distance
260	0	1040	Christchurch	NZCH	1645ar	-	105.0
181	105.0	1150lv	Mount Cook	NZMC	1545lv	082	28.2
230	28.2	-	(Pukaki)	NZUK	-	001	75.4
132	75.4	1245lv	Queenstown	NZQN	1450lv	051	81.9
-	81.9	1330ar	Dunedin	NZDN	1400	311	0

Christchurch – Invercargill Route (MC3 & MC4) – Sun,Tue,Thu

Heading	Distance	Down	City Name	ICAO	Up	Heading	Distance
260	0	0940lv	Christchurch	NZCH	1645ar	-	105.0
181	105.0	1050lv	Mount Cook	NZMC	1545lv	082	28.2
230	28.2	-	(Pukaki)	NZUK	-	001	75.4
235	75.4	1155lv	Queenstown	NZQN	1440lv	051	55.3
153	55.3	1230lv	Te Anua/ Manapouri	NZMO	1405lv	056	59.7
-	59.7	1300ar	Invercargill	NZNV	1330lv	332	0

(picture copyright Bjorn Larsson www.timetableimages.com)

Flight Simulator Files

A repaint for the default DC-3 in a Mount Cook scheme is available in Mcdak.zip from the download section at www.fs-snowman.com, where you can also get a Mount Cook DHC-6 by Markus Hellwig.