I don’t even think of Cadbury as chocolate anymore.

Yeah, I’ve been there a few times myself. It looks like some major work is being done on the building though, which is good to see.

I usually ride through Aro valley, but I’ve done a circuit of Mt Vic a few times.

Most of the MTB tracks are new tracks, so I’m not sure what everyone is moaning about.

I suspect his identity was well known, or at least suspected, in the right circles.

Also, tramping attracts some absolute nutters, I’ve met a few over the years.

I heard a tree come down on the ridgeline at the southern end of Mt Vic on Monday evening, I also saw the tree in the photo, which happened on Fergusson drive.

It’s been interesting driving a van in these conditions.

Yes, you cannot obstruct passage. Although I’m not sure if the road itself is considered private.

ML take if ever I saw one.

There’s really people out there called Weinersmith, huh?

Helicopters can autorotate, meaning fly without power, and the Jetranger from my understanding has quite good autorotation characteristics.

If this was simply a power failure, they should have been able to land just fine.

This was an extremely high hour machine, 13,000 on the airframe and 26,000 on the engine. Not sure if that’s significant, but it’s definitely interesting.

I suspect they’re just seeing big bull deer or a Wapiti.

I think I’ve heard about this dude, he’s basically a benign version of a conspiracy theorist.

I’m very much on the same page, pics or it didn’t happen. If there really was a moose population, there would be prints, poo, antlers, or some other evidence.

Instead, we have a number of sightings, almost always by people from areas where moose live, but no photos.

And I believe the fact it always seems to be Americans or Canadians is significant, perhaps they’re more likely to think moose when they see a shape, rather than a NZer, who would assume it was a deer?

And everyone else on that frequency, which would have been a few people if this was broadcast on 16.

The amount of new townhouses in lower Hutt is incredible, most notably along Cambridge terrace. Hundreds of them just along one road.

I believe there’s a lot being built along the river as well.

Ouch. How many units do you have in service?

The weather forecast that Inreach offers is also excellent, hopefully there will be a way to replicate that over cell service.

We’ll find out, I guess.

There is something funny about him just bypassing them, to be honest.

Steering it wasn’t the issue, it was how to actually take control from the autopilot.

Except it was a different failure mode to what they were concerned about.