22
Sep
2009
Episode 9: Airplane Geeks Down Under
Andrew Temby
While Max Flight from the Airplane Geeks couldn’t be with us, having the other guys from the show record with us was a hoot and certainly generated a LOT of content for a future “Bloopers Only” episode. We’re definitely looking forward to recording with them again once our sanity recovers.
Dr Bruce Searle
The topics discussed in this episode include:
- A general discussion of airline issues down under with the Airplane Geeks
- Emirates and V Australia to codeshare on Tasman routes (Leithen Francis @ FlightGlobal)
- V Australia to Codeshare with…Emirates? (Dan Webb @ Things in the Sky)
- High fuel prices may clip recovery (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Premium passengers slowly return to flights (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Qantas CEO: See No Further Room For Capacity Cuts In This FY (Wall St Journal)
- INTERVIEW: Qantas CEO: Passenger Demand Higher Than Expected (Wall St Journal)
- Qantas jettisons JAL merger rumour (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Virgin in talks to buy $4b planes (Matt O’Sullivan @ The Age)
- Virgin Blue to buy 30 to 50 737s? (Australian Aviation magazine)
- Virgin Blue’s plan to seat more passengers (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Brett Godfrey true believer in 50pc Virgin share (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Talking about Air Traffic Control issues with Rob & David
- Staff shortage sparks national flight delays (ABC News)
- Flights delayed or cancelled as air controllers “unavailable” (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Sydney’s flight schedule ‘to return to normal’ (ABC News)
- Airservices, staff on collision course (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Virgin Blue to pursue AirServices Australia for compensation for its air traffic failures (Ben Sandilands @ Crikey)
- Military to lose airspace in $300m savings push (Cameron Stewart & Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- David Vanderhoof presents “This week in Australian aviation history” covering the official approval for the establishment of the Central Flying School at Point Cook (now referred to as RAAF Williams)
- Grant went to the Mission Aviation Fellowship airshow at Coldstream Airport (YCEM) and recorded these interviews
- Dr Bruce Searle, Dean of the Australian Centre for Mission Aviation
- Andrew Temby, aerobatics pilot and owner of a Yak-52TW
- Matt Hall came 3rd at the Porto RedBull AirRace in Portugal – YAY!
- We discuss some military news
- We review some of the “Traffic” entries from the latest Australian Aviation magazine
- OzJet 737-200s
- V Australia’s latest 777
- RAAF KC30 MRTT
- Air New Zealand’s 767 with blended winglets
Please note that our theme music track is “YouNameIt5″ by Brian Simpson (aka t3cat5) and our sound effects come from SoundSnap.com.
Tags: 737, 767, A330, ACMA, Air New Zealand, Air Services, Air Traffic Control, Airplane Geeks, Airshow, Amberley, Andrew Temby, ATC, Australian Centre for Mission Aviation, Central Flying School, Coldstream, Dan Webb, David Vanderhoof, Dr Bruce Searle, Emirates, F111, F35, Jetwhine, MAF, Matt Hall, Mission Aviation Fellowship, MRTT, OzJet, Point Cook, QANTAS, RAAF, RedBull AirRace, Rob Mark, Sydney, V Australia, Virgin, Virgin Blue, YCEM
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Just got through about 1 hour of the podcast and really enjoyed it so far. I like the round table discussions and topics covered. The interviews are great also. Keep it up!
Great episode guys. The dynamics of the entire group was brilliant. Over 100 hits so far via http://fat.ly/pcdu9 – hope we can help you guys create the following you deserve!
Thanks for the great support guys. Steve’s editing was masterful on this episode as he managed to convert our deranged ramblings into something coherent (no really, can you imagine what it was like with all us Geeks talking??? :)
Thanks Marty. Your support has be fantastic and we really appreciate it.