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Fly with the Airplanes ( Auckland Airport) Traditional Cache

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TheCur8or: As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 11/27/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a awesome place for plane spotting, the planes on approach fly directly overhead, the location of the cache is directly under the fly path of landing airplanes, they are that close you can nearly touch them.

At this place you will have a different view of the planes than from the two plane spotting car parks further up the road.

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Auckland Airport welcomes you
 
Welcome to Auckland Airport, New Zealand's gateway. We’re the first to welcome you to our beautiful city, the last to farewell you from the islands of New Zealand. E nga iwi o te ao katoa, Haere mai ki te whenua o Aotearoa

Auckland Airport (formerly[when?] Auckland International Airport) (IATA: AKL, ICAO: NZAA) is the largest and busiestairport in New Zealand with 14,006,122 (7,769,207 international and 6,236,915 domestic) passengers in 2011.[2] The airport is located near Mangere, a residential suburb and Airport Oaks, a service hub suburb 21 kilometres (13 mi) south of the downtownAuckland city centre. It is the central hub for Air New Zealand, a New Zealand hub of Virgin Australia, and a focus city forJetstar Airways.

Auckland Airport is one of New Zealand’s most important infrastructure assets, providing thousands of jobs for the region, and is the country’s second largest cargo port by value, contributing around $14 billion to the economy, and catering for over four million visitors each year, resulting in a 70% share of New Zealand's international travellers.[3]

The airport is the fourth busiest in Australasia after SydneyMelbourne, and Brisbane airports. However, internationally, the airport is the second busiest in Australasia as Melbourne had just 6,213,479 international passengers in 2011.[4] The airport has been rated in the top 3 worldwide for airports handling 5–15 million passengers annually.[5] It was also voted the 8th best airport in the world in 2011 at the World Airport Awards.[6]

It has a capacity of about 45 flight movements per hour,[7] using a single runway which is fully Cat IIIb capable (at a reduced rate of movements). A close by taxiway was upgraded for use as a runway when the main runway requires maintenance or for use during emergencies, but it does not have sufficient separation distance to operate simultaneously with the main runway. In November 2007 work began on a new northern runway, to be built in several stages and to be used mainly by smaller airplanes, freeing up capacity on the main runway. However, the project was put on hold for at least 12 months in October 2009, and deferred for a further few years in August 2010 following consultation with airlines and a review of capacity management options. The timing of the recommencement of construction of the second runway will be demand driven relative to the capacity of the existing runway.

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You are looking for a nano cache, hidden in plain sight, this camouflaged cache is like the planes " ready to take off "

Please take a rollingpin or splitpin to roll the log sheet after wards, bring you own pen.

Parking is plenty full on this quit side road.

Happy hunting

More flight information, get the plane spotting app, it's an amazing app which enables you to see in real time where and what the planes are, gives a lot of flight information, have a look at

/a>http://fr24.com/-37.13,174.04/7

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