Yes remember the low flying complainer. There was also one who brought a house in Sanson, then immediately started to complain about the jets on approach. He still lives there and starts up again when overseas air forces comes with combat jets. talk about a Johnny come lately. I do take the View that the Air Force was their first and if you move into the area you need to take into account what was there before you arrived.
As for Wigram, it was too constrained by development around it as unlike Ohakea defence did not own the surrounding land (for those who are unaware, the land surrounding Ohakea is defence owned and leased to the occupiers).
Talking of Wigram, I remember when down there on my SNCO course in the mid to late 70's We ( the course participants ) had a run in with the base SWO. At the time the Air force was changing from the old separate winter and summer uniforms dating from WW2 to the new all seasons uniform which you just put on what was appropriate for the weather. We at Ohakea had changed over to the new, but Wigram had not and had just gone into winter uniform (battle Dress). During the course we had a hot day and had remove our jerseys until we walked passed the the base WO's office, when he flew out, threw his toys out of his cot and accused us of walking around his base half undressed. Even when we pointed out that this was perfectly legal with the new uniform and that he needed to read the new reg's he would have none of it and ordered us to put our jerseys back on even though it was plus 20 degrees. He evidently complained to Ohakea about what a scruffy lot we were and the informed him that he was wrong and we were right. We got a terse ok, we could remove our jerseys from him but that he was going to keep a close eye on us. We were hoping that he would come to the SNCO's mess while we were there, but after that we never did see him again.
