Making Time for Flying

On a flight from Sydney to Brisbane in a Qantas 767-338, Air Traffic Control gave us one turn in the hold over Gold Coast airport , which c...

Whatever the rules are for choosing 5-character names for IFR waypoints, there is still plenty of room left for poetic licence. There's ...

Three weeks after our inbound flight , it was time to say goodbye to the European summer and brace for the Australian winter. Not that we no...

This is a post written from an airliner seat I can plug my netbook into, which seasoned travellers will immediately recognise as a Good Sign...

I was driving to the airport from work for my first night solo when rain started to fall. Great. Just what I needed, a wet runway and the li...

Tuesday morning, about 7:30AM. I am half-awake in a window seat on the left-hand side of a Qantas Boeing 737-400 on approach to Brisbane air...

My last session of night circuits was much, much better than the previous one . Ben said he is now ready to send me solo at night, which wil...