Animation Research Ltd

Monday January 22, 2007

Finding cell phone coverage in the corner of a bach in Opotiki so she can arrange a pilot to fly to the UAE wasn’t Karen (Kazza) Shaw’s idea of a good Christmas Holiday but as Virtual Eye’s Golf Operations Manager she knew that the show would go on…and Virtual Eye Golf was part of the show.

A last minute decision by the tournament sponsors meant that Christmas holidays for a number of Virtual Eye staff were disrupted. This had a flow on effect to New Zealand Aerial Mapping who together with our sister company Terralink International commissioned high resolution aerial photography and aerial laser survey data to be collected for Abu Dhabi Golf Club. With each day passing the beginning of European Tour’s production of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship was looming ever larger. It seemed to Kazza that Murphy (of Murphy’s law fame) decided not to take a Christmas break this year as everything that could have gone wrong – from aircraft mechanical failures to the official observer not turning up on the right day – did. At one stage she was even talking, albeit indirectly, to the Crown Prince for permissions to get the data needed!

Despite all of the issues faced and overcome on Kazza’s return to work she was heard to say “It’s just part of the job – no big deal”