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15.Mar.2008 : Staff Travel So I’m in the middle of a Shanghai trip, checking the bags in at Shanghai’s airport for the return flight. My mobile rings, it’s my Father, in Perth. He’s travelled across from Melbourne that day (full fare Qantas) to catch the Ek flight Perth-Dubai-Manchester because all of the east coast Australian [...]
A few weeks ago I posted some code that would retrieve an aviation metar from the NOAA website and display it within your WordPress blog post or page. As expected, it was followed with a few emails asking how we could output a TAF (or Terminal Aerodrome Forecast) instead. Using the same recycled code, it’s [...]
We would like to wish everybody a happy holiday season. As you would expect, our posting frequency has dropped off a little over the holiday period but we’ll be back in action early in the new year. I’m not quite sure where the following poem came from, but it’s worth reading anyhow. Twas the night [...]
14.Mar.2008 : Fright Worx Freight Works came today and did the run around to look at what we have to move. It was like a bad dream revisited – same as the first move we did here when the rents were raised and Ek forced a move on us with two weeks notice. Young, blonde, [...]
13.Mar.2008 : The Pilot-Less Airline Video Having got back mid afternoon from Chennai, somewhat exhausted since I did not sleep well before the 12 hour+ duty starting at 1:50 am that took me to the minima at the runway in low cloud and rain; I went to collect my car to find that the car [...]
There’s a wad of documentation associated with Accommodation and Leaving Ek – I’ll find some place to put samples of it all so you know what to expect. No doubt you’ll receive more up to date documentation and therefore should ignore mine. For starters, yours will probably have correct phone numbers – despite the fact [...]
I wrote about Kevin Smith’s encounter with Virgin America a couple of days ago. The more I think about his experience, and the more I hear the story told from various angles (including variations of his own), the more I’m inclined the believe that the flight he was late for and refused carriage on was [...]
Not-so-silent Kevin Smith has had had another airline dummy spit on his blog – this time with Virgin America. Remember when he was kicked off a SouthWest aircraft back in Febuary for what he claimed was his rather wide carriage? On this occasion, he arrived at the VX gate 10 minutes prior to departure to [...]
In one of the smarter moves that Aussie tourism has made in recent years, they’ve just flown a lucky group of Oprah audience members to Australia. Oprah’s now officially on her way to Australia in the comfort of private jet while the rest of her entourage arrived in Sydney this morning. The plan to convert [...]
I published some PHP code about 12 months ago that would output a raw aviation metar onto your website. This code is a variation on a theme and will post a Metar directly into a WordPress post or page with the use of shortcode. It’s simple. I’ve just started to update a blog that I [...]
10.Mar.2008 : Lost ID Today was not a good day. While at the new EGHQ, I noticed there was an Etisalat office near Costa’s. I popped in to see if I could change my company sim card for a new one (the old one won’t work in my iPhone - a common problem). We got [...]
Our friend, Karlene Petitt, is involved with an initiative to get 2010 female pilots introduced to aviation. It’s been 100 years since the first woman earned her pilots license. To celebrate this anniversary, Mireille Goyer had a vision of introducing 2010 new girls and women to aviation this year. For all who signed up, only [...]
In episode 5 of Flight Podcast we talk with John King of King Schools. Kings Schools has a hand in training over 50% of the pilot population in the United States at some point in their career via a library of over 90 courses that can be completed using interactive DVD’s or online via their [...]
Note (March 2012): This method of including players is currently depreciated (althoug existing and future code will continue to work). We’re rebuilding HTML5 players that are required for most iOS devices. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook for details. We recently had a giveaway competition on FlightPodcast.com. It required listeners to simply provide us with [...]
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