Incredible how a new incoming government can simply wipe out a fighter wing and all the support and investment made so quickly and without contest. Unfortunately, there will never be a new fighter wing. The investment is just too massive!

I had a media flight in probably the mid 90's in one of these. It was the best thing I ever did in a g suit lol. All very low level Invercargill to Qtown, Te Anau, back up high & then strafed the Stewart Island school a few times, some aeros over Foveaux Straight and back to Invers in 55 Min. The Pilot was Brendon someone, I forget. Thanks bud

Got a good look at the Macchi in the mid 90"s, I asked one of the pilots if they were as good as the skyhawk pilots, he laughed and said getting there.

Amazing that when these aircraft could at least have replaced the ancient Strikemasters at Ground Training Wing, some clown decided it was all too hard. Apparently they didn't want to change the existing training, but given the very tired state of the old Strikemasters, their hopeless manuals, and lack of spares, replacing them with the Macchi's should have been a no-brainer. This would have at least given the ground trainees something more modern than the totally steam driven Strikemasters with gaps in the instrument panels because they couldn't source replacement parts, and manuals up to date rather than looking like escapees from WW2. Some people in the RNZAF really weren't doing their jobs back then. Hope that has changed. The Strikemasters should have gone to museums, not the Macchi's.

Hi, could I use part of this footage inside my next video on my youtube channel? Thanks a lot 😊

New Zealand need to get there air force Jets back 18 hawks trainers 30 F16 😎

DCS world brought me here.

Reminds me of the Impala jet trainer of the South African Air Force.?

Cool vid👍🇳🇿

So i learned how to fly this on DCS. i dont think "sophisticated" is the correct term for it lol