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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 [...]
Over the years I’ve taken lots of photos from the Flight Deck. Nothing before (or since) prepared me for the Contrails coming from Delta48 (a B767) on this day over the Atlantic.
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 [...]
Despite jumping through multiple hoops to get the original – you would think that having operated into the States every month for the last two years, renewing my visa would not be that difficult a process. Well ..
At some point over the last few years, I have apparently encountered Perses, the ancient Greek God of destruction and have inherited his curse. Actually this is an imperfect syllogism, because while some of the things I touch these days certainly do turn to crap – they’re all basically computers. Unfortunately the Greeks seemed not [...]
I’m an airline pilot, or at least, that’s my day job. Partly because of the nature of my profession, partly because of the nature of my work role (I’m a Check Captain and therefore I’m a slave to both the Aircraft and the Simulator, the airline schedule and the trainee pilot) – this involves a [...]
I’m really angry at myself today. Every now then then life brings past you the opportunity to step outside the box and do the right thing – sometimes this requires a little thinking, sometimes it requires to you step outside the group-think. Today I failed that test, and I’m disappointed and annoyed at myself. Let [...]
It seems like I’ve spent most of my life commuting to work. Of course I’m alone in this, but while for most it’s a suburban to city drive, for some of my friends this means a walk/car/train/tram experience from Geelong to Melbourne, for me it’s a little more. Geelong to Sydney. This morning I rose at 6am to have [...]
I arrived home from Los Angeles this morning to learn that my friend Tony Norman has passed away on Christmas eve after a long battle with cancer. I worked with Tony for a short time at Meekatharra in Western Australia while I was based there as a pilot with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Tony [...]
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