Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Moisture in the air and water in the tanks

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The date was sometime in July, and the intended destination was Taree, NSW, with the idea of getting back into cross-country flying. There...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Spot the airfield: Gold Coast, Queensland

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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...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

You'll come a-Flying Matilda, with me

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Whatever the rules are for choosing 5-character names for IFR waypoints, there is still plenty of room left for poetic licence. There's ...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Less Bliss and more Boredom

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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...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Bliss is Being Bumped up and Bibimbap

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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...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Alone in the dark

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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...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

First go-around in a commercial airplane

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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...
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