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One of my fellow pilots was diagnosed and treated for Prostate Cancer about two years ago. Thankfully, he was successfully treated and now juggles a line flying role and a demanding management position. For at least the second year in a row, he is participating in Movember in aid of prostate cancer research and awareness [...]
Virgin Blue re-branded its domestic and narrow-body international operation (excluding the Polynesian Blue operation that consists of just one aircraft) into Virgin Australia. We have lots of information coming – including video of the Sydney press conference with Richard Branson and John Borghetti. In the meantime, here’s a few photos from today’s event. We’ll upload [...]
One of my first tasks when I arrived at V Australia in early June 2008 was to watch simulator transition training being conducted at our new simulator in Silverwater, Sydney. The students were straight off the street pilots who had come from regional airlines – in most cases it was their first jet, their first [...]
Today I am at Day One of the Airline & Aerospace MRO & Operations IT Conference, looking primarily at EFB and EFB enabled systems. As I sort through the assault of information that comes at you at these events, I’ll be musing here on Flight.Org on what I’m learning. Whether seeking the heftily priced Class Three [...]
My airline is currently looking at various options for an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). Originally meant to come with our spanking new 777-300ER’s, they didn’t – for a variety of timing, manufacturing and political reasons. Thus we have an exceedingly handy clip/chart holder and a neat little cupboard where a hundred thousand dollar EFB should [...]
Recently, I was THAT GUY … Have you ever slept in for work? In aviation that takes on a special meaning, given the way the tasks of dozens of people and departments revolve around the scheduled departure time of a flight. In my previous company we were collected for work by crew transport – a [...]
At parties, one of the first questions I’m asked, once we’ve done the profession swapping process, is “How do you get used to the Jet Lag?” The answer is of course, you don’t, because you can’t. My airline is a new start up international operation, a subsidiary of an established domestic carrier. As such, while [...]
What did your airline do for Christmas? If you were a passenger, what did your airline do for you? I was (un?)fortunate enough to be working Christmas night out of Los Angeles bound for Sydney. We had a great cabin crew who all seemed to embrace the Christmas season, so the ambience and mood on [...]
There’s an old marketing adage that says that a satisfied customer will tell three people about their positive experience – while an unhappy customer will tell ten. This no longer applies. In the web 2.0 world of Facebook, forums, review-sites, blogs and real-time Twitter, a customer can potentially reach millions of people in a matter [...]
Flight.org’s Ken Pascoe was interviewed by The Age newspaper last month. The story was printed on their education website last week; and we have re-printed it below. Captain Ken Pascoe is one of V-Australia’s most senior pilots. With more than two decades of experience captaining a range of aircraft, including the huge Boeing 777 wide-body [...]
V Australia launch their new “Flygirl” campaign tonight on Australian television, marking the commencement of their first major brand and product marketing campaign. The style of campaign was already a success in the USA when it was launched on billboards across California. The campaign moves away from the successful ‘Hamish and Andy’ advertisements that were [...]
As one of those involved in establishing the training organisation here at V, I was fortunate to be the Captain of the first operational Sydney to Los Angeles service – the Inaugural Launch Service. Well the first V Flight Sydney to Los Angeles (VAU 1, callsign “VeeOz One”) is complete. The day began early for [...]
As one of those involved in establishing the training organisation here at V, I was fortunate to be the Captain of the first operational Sydney to Los Angeles service – the Inaugural Launch Service. Well, it’s now seriously Pre-Game. It seems most of V is across at Cockatoo Island at the Launch Party, while the rest of [...]
As one of those involved in setting up the Training of pilots on the Boeing 777-300, we undertook line training of our newly trained pilots in our aircraft between Melbourne, Adelaide and Avalon airports. What follows is a description of one of those days of training. Today was the begining of Non-Revenue Line Training (as [...]
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