Episode 6: Plugcast

Tags: 737, 757, 787, A4, Air New Zealand, Airlines PNG, Airplane Geeks, Ariane, bomb, Cloud 9 Travel, DHC-6, Flight Centre, Flight Experience Melbourne, Kaman, Kokoda, London, Los Angeles, Macquarie Airports, MaxFlight, New Zealand, Optus, QANTAS, RAN, Regional Express, REX, RNZAF, Seasprite, simulator, Singapore Airlines, Skyhawk, Twin Otter, United, Virgin Blue, wind

After almost two weeks we finally get another episode out, but this one should be worth the wait. We have our first guest discussion session (@MaxFlight from the Airplane Geeks Podcast) and we have our first interview (Carlo Santoro from the Flight Experience Melbourne 737 simulator). In addition to all this, we also discuss the following topics:

Bodies of the passengers on the Airlines PNG Twin Otter crash at Kokoda are [...]

 
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Episode 5: Jet Lag Recovery

Tags: Accident, AirAsiaX, Airlines PNG, Australian Aviation, Bankstown, Delta, DHC-6, Eaker AFB, Fiji, Jetstar, Kokoda, Landing Gear, Laser pointer, Leo Laporte, Malaysian Airlines, MAS, Pacific Blue, Papua New Guinea, QANTAS, Regional Airlines, RFDS, Royal Flying Doctor Service, SimpliFlying, Tiger Airways, Twin Otter, TWiT, V Australia, Virgin Blue, Woolworths, YSBK

Steve’s back from his trip to the USA and, despite some jet lag woes, he’s in the recording studio and the banter is flowing in our longest episode yet. Sadly, the first 15 minutes sound like Grant’s testing NASA’s new Interplanetary Internet and experiencing a really crappy connection. Not to worry, it soon clears up and the rest of the episode quite clearly reveals our usual commentary on this week’s [...]

 
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Episode 4: Hand Propped

Tags: Alan Joyce, ATR72, Bangkok Airways, Cathay Pacific, Cessna, DHC-6, Geoff Dixon, hand propping, Indonesia, Jetstar, Koh Samui, marketing, MU-2, Papua, QANTAS, RAAF, RNZAF, Seasprite, SMS, swine flu, Thailand, Tiger Airways, Twin Otter, V Australia, Vietnam, Virgin Blue, website

This week’s episode comes out a little late as Steve’s still in the USA and Grant was up in Sydney for the PCDU / SimpliFlying TweetUp that happened along side the Asia / Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit 2009. A great time was had by all who attended the event but now it’s back to work as there’s news to read, interviews to arrange and a podcast to produce.
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