When you ask Robbie Burnside about his early days of flying, he’ll tell you that he hated opening gates on the farm, “so to do away with the gates, I just fly over them.” Of course. Robbie has used his plane as an essential work horse around the farm, and also to get him from A to B for business. Flying has become a key aspect of Robbie’s life.
This Pilots’ Talk episode is part of series of candid interviews with AOPA NZ members. Pilots, engineers, aviation experts and others who are passionate about General Aviation, have great experience, and have a yarn or two to share. To see all Pilots’ Talk videos published to date, including short clips, click this link. You can also head over to our YouTube channel. If you have suggestions for future interviews, please email comms@aopa.nz with the member’s details and your thoughts on why they’d make a great interviewee for this series. Interviews were conducted, produced and edited by Mark Sinclair of yBC.