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'Swaying' 777
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EA01 » Thu May 30, 2024 7:30 am
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Paxing back in from Rarotonga last night (Spending a few hours in a AKL airport hotel) before returning BNE this morning.
Cabin announcement there...
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B727 which weathervane sin provocation, chock all mains and nose. Brakes set and leave the aircraft with 360 deg clear.
If the equipment is available...
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Last post by Wodrick
Thu May 30, 2024 5:48 pm
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BA009 revisited
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probes » Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:57 am
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What a flight!
This is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem and all four engines have stopped. I trust you're not in too much distress....
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@probes I don't know if it's still on the curriculum for the ATPL Human Performance section. I haven't done any ATPL exams for over 20 years....
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Last post by reddo
Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:44 pm
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CFI Renewal
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PHXPhlyer » Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:27 pm
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I am about 25% through my CFI renewal.
Has to be done every 2 years.
I bought a lifetime online CFI renewal through American Flyers. The cost was...
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I've had my CFI for 35 or so years.
During that time I only went to one AOPA weekend CFI refresher course (remember those?)
Many times mine renewed...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:45 pm
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God-forsaken Places I Have Diverted Into thread
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by Slasher » Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:19 pm
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I feel a God-forsaken Places I Have Diverted Into thread coming on.. ;)))
Window Rock, AZ would be my nomination.
Calcutta in my case yonks ago....
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Slight thread drift as I was not diverted into this location, had to pass through it ever time I entered or left the country. Pekanbaru, Indonesia....
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Last post by Smeagol
Thu Jan 18, 2024 9:53 pm
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Have you the same number of landings as take offs?
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CharlieOneSix » Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:15 pm
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All pilots aspire to ending their careers with the same number of landings as take offs.......but what about you - did you achieve that? By the same...
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54 more take offs than landings. Or 3 less.
57 skydives. Not sure if this counts since I didn't fly the take offs.
minus 3 times I was winched...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:47 pm
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Last post by reddo
Sat Jul 29, 2023 1:11 pm
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First Flight....
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CharlieOneSix » Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:01 pm
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When, where and in what was yours? Mine was 1956 in an Auster at the long gone Christchurch airfield when Dad stomped up ten bob:
first flight.jpg
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Captain Jim Crampton, a gentleman of the first order, flew Austers from Cleethorpes beach, ten bob to Grimsby Dock tower and back. He had two and...
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Last post by 1DC
Mon Mar 27, 2023 11:22 am
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Antonov
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OFSO » Fri Feb 24, 2023 6:33 pm
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I see Ukraine has announced a new 225 will rise from the ashes left by the Russian shelling.
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There was a programme on BBC1 a few nights ago, where they visited Hostomel. It appears to have been quite recent, and what was apparent was that a...
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Last post by tango15
Sat Feb 25, 2023 10:16 am
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Buckeye (KBXK) Airshow
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PHXPhlyer » Sun Feb 19, 2023 4:38 pm
Drove D#1 to Buckeye Air Fair where she was working a booth repping her college flight school. Almost 50 miles one way.
Only consolation was avoiding...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Sun Feb 19, 2023 4:38 pm
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US & Caribbean Dec and Jan.
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reddo » Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:36 pm
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Once again helping out our US colleagues.
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Stunning part of the world. Enjoy :D
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Thu Feb 02, 2023 7:48 pm
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:26 am
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Look what's coming to town next year!! :)
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EA01 » Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:32 am
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The partying and the guys voice are somewhat annoying - off putting...most will not have a faint clue of what they are looking at...but should be...
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Marked their US airshow at Huntington Beach, CA on my calendar for end of September.
May have a go at it.
PP
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:52 pm
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A quip for FOX3.
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boing » Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:59 pm
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OK, I'm cheating this in here but it is vaguely aviation connected and I think humorous.
Today I had a wellness check, I don't really see the point...
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You have a doctor?? =))
(only been waiting 11 years here)
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:32 pm
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Last post by ricardian
Sat Apr 30, 2022 5:31 pm
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Views of St Moritz/Samedan
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reddo » Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:43 pm
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Had to delay the flight by 1 day. It was worth the wait.
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Popped into Samedan and Sion over the weekend. Similar views, a smidge more hazy, a bit less snow.
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Last post by reddo
Mon Mar 21, 2022 3:27 pm
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10 out of 10 for engines...
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OFSO » Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:12 pm
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Enjoying a post-prandial meditation. Drone of propellers overhead. Sounds like AN-22 I said to the wife. Reached for my tablet. An AN-12BK of Cavok...
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More engine news of the adaptive engine sort .
The US Air Force (USAF) plans to start testing adaptive engine prototypes from GE Aviation and Pratt...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:53 pm
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Teterboro fiasco...
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TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 09, 2021 9:47 am
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I had never seen or heard of this ill fated approach before...
Feel stressed just listening to that... totally needless...
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BOAC, now you mention it I think I have seen that too though the other pilot saved the day. Worst case was our skipper had a monumental hangover and...
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:14 am
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Skyhooks, big watches, lace panties and other aviation myths...
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TheGreenGoblin » Sun Dec 06, 2020 2:42 pm
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Icing...
The rubber de-icing boots bridging myth?
Ice bridging is the idea that if you operate the boots too early, you will stretch the ice but...
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We were, so the wing tip would have been about 50 feet. What had it worse was the sqn cdr, standing down the back, badgered the captain (and AEO) to...
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Fri Apr 16, 2021 12:01 pm
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Arigatou gozaimasu
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boing » Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:10 pm
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OK, here is another airline story. I've been a little reluctant to share this one because it seems to me a bit self-aggrandizing but I apologise for...
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I am no expert in genetics, but I was once told that Asians (and Japanese particularly) are genetically less able to deal with alcohol than...
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Last post by tango15
Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:57 pm
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Cooperate and Graduate,
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boing » Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:47 am
OK, it's a bit quiet around here so I will inflict another story on you, pardon its length but hopefully this is not just a story about one sim....
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Nov 04, 2020 5:37 pm
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ILAFFT - I follow roads
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TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:53 am
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What does the Kobe Bryant crash and a Cessna 152 CFIT in the mountains have in common? Well known pilot, author and journalist Peter Garrison...
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Not sure about the chopper you chopper pilots would know better than me.
Interesting that this came up today again, this picture of me and Ara,...
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Last post by G~Man
Tue Jul 28, 2020 4:24 pm
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How did you become a pilot?
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boing » Sat Apr 02, 2016 4:31 am
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In another thread somewhere someone asked for stories about how you got into aviation. In my case the summary of the whole adventure would be that it...
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Joined Albatross Aviation ( affectionately sometimes referred to as ''Sigley's Flying Circus') at Coomera, blasting around in 'Drifters'....the best...
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Last post by EA01
Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:09 am
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That's why I called him Dick. (Part 1)
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boing » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:19 am
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Talked so much this time that I had to break the story into 2 parts.
Here I sit on the 16th of December 2019 in Dallas TX looking out over the hotel...
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A tale about our opposition in PNG around 68/69 One of their pilots was vertically descending into a small bush pad and struck a branch,landed ,shut...
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Last post by bob2s
Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:21 am
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Lifeguard
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boing » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:56 am
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Us: Ground, Aline 123 Lifeguard taxi.
Ground: Aline 123 Lifeguard clear to taxi runway 1 Right, there is a Bline 767 waiting for you to pass in the...
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Some pilots are known for being legless.
All the better to stop or continue yaw while the hand does it business... :-bd
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:03 am
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The Rest is History
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boing » Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:32 pm
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I am going to claim this little story is an experience in aviation because of the time, place and events. Certainly the place and events are...
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the medical board at RAF Halton determined that I was red/green colour blind.
As a newly promoted Cpl at Lindholme, I had a National Service who...
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Last post by ian16th
Fri Dec 13, 2019 8:12 pm
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