About 150 pilots will touch down in Wakatipu for a five-day conference timed to coincide with the country’s biggest airshow.
The International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s 29th World Assembly is being held in Queenstown over five days from March 25.
It will be followed by the three-day Warbirds Over Wanaka air show, which begins on March 30.The association’s New Zealand president, Ian Andrews, said about 150 delegates, most of them recreational pilots, from more than a dozen countries would attend the conference.
He expected about 100 of the delegates to join a tour to the air show. Topics to be discussed at the conference included the reform of medical standards for private pilot licences, the impact of technology on flying and the surge in popularity of drones.
The conference will be opened by Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult, who is a director of the Civil Aviation Authority.
