Despite the annoying habit of our “day jobs” and families encroaching into our PCDU time, we’ve finally managed to get some time to record an episode. Steve even managed a marathon effort of post production to edit a coherent episode from our opinionated news discussion and an interview with Saj Ahmad. Go Steve! :)
Despite my best efforts to drone on endlessly, Steve’s also managed to keep the episode under [...]
04
Feb
2010
Episode 24: Misuse of Accents
Tags: accents, Aerobatics, Air New Zealand, beer, Border Patrol, crash, Customs & Immigration, death, Display Team, F35, Fail, FleetBuzz Editorial, forum, IPO, JSF, passports, QANTAS, QLD, Queensland, R44, RAAF, Red Checkers, RNZAF, Robinson, Saj Ahmad, seats, Technology, Tiger Airways, Virgin Blue
31
Dec
2009
Episode 22: Farewell 2009
Tags: 747, 787, A380, Adam Visccher, ADSB, Air New Zealand, Air Services, Airplane Geeks, Airspeed, Amberley, Bas Scheffers, Ben Ippolito, Carlo Santoro, CASA, Changi, Dane Golden, David Vanderhoof, GAAP, Gippsland Aeronautics, Jeremy Peck, JetConnect, Joel Haski, Karla Courtenay, Lang Kidby, Leo Laporte, Matt Hall, Michael Gilmour, Nick Brau, Nigel Lamb, Owen Zupp, Pilot's Flight Podlog, Podcast Answerman, QANTAS, RAAF, Rob Fyfe, Saj Ahmad, Shashank Nigam, Tiger Airways, UCAP, Uncontrolled Airspace
It’s the Christmas & New Year holiday period, plus down here it’s Summer so we’re totally into listening to long aviation podcasts when we’re not distracted by having fun. So, for all of our listeners who have long drives or lots of chores to do around home, we give you our longest episode yet. With a bit of Christmas cheer, we produce just over two hours of PCDU goodness including [...]
05
Dec
2009
Episode 19: Interview with a Vampire … Pilot (& Other Stories)
Tags: 747, A330, ADIRU, Air New Zealand, ATSB, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Canberra, Jetstar, Newcastle, Pacific Blue, QANTAS, RAAF, Richmond, Sydney, V Australia, Virgin Blue, Williamtown
Steve’s out sick (he must have eaten the fish :) so Grant’s flying solo on this one and cheating madly by assembling a few interviews and a slightly modified version of the Australia Desk segment we recorded for the Airplane Geeks’ Thanksgiving episode. The interviews include:
Matt Hall & Nigel Lamb
Carlo Santoro from Flight Experience Melbourne
Nick Brau on flying hot air balloons over Melbourne city
The news items we covered include:
British Airways [...]
20
Nov
2009
Episode 17: The Ipanator says “Rivet Shower? Not on *my* Watch!”
Tags: Air Traffic Control, ATC, Ben Ippolito, GAAP, Jeremy Peck, Pushing Tin, RAAF, rivet shower, The Flick
How many of you folks have wanted to be Air Traffic Controllers? Do you dream of Pushing Tin around the skies? Think you can keep The Flick in your head? Want to tell pilots in aircraft of all sizes where to go? (ahem! :) Steve & Grant both applied for ATC and were both knocked back for a number of reasons. Fortunately, we know a couple of guys who weren’t.
Join [...]
01
Nov
2009
Episode 15: And now for something completely different, here is the news
Tags: 737, 747, A320, A330, A380, A4, Air Traffic Control, Airbus, Airshow, ALEA, Beaver, Black Saturday, bush fire, Centenary, crash, DHC-2, Diggers Rest, evacuation, fire, fire bomber, GA, General Aviation, Geoff Dixon, Hobart, Houdini, Il76, Ilyushin, Jamestown, Jandakot, Jetstar, KC-30, maintenance, MH-60R, MRTT, New Zealand, Newcastle, nose wheel, Perth, QANTAS, RA-Aus, RAAF, RAN, RedBull AirRace, RFDS, RNZAF, Rocket, Rocket Lab, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Skyhawk, Socceroos, Super Beaver, Sydney, Tiger Airways, Victoria, Virgin Blue
We’re back to being our opiniated selves with a backlog of news stories to work through and discuss. Once again Bas Scheffers joins us for some of the news and to discuss a number of RA-Aus items. From Beavers to Tigers and even Kiwi Skyhawks doing battle with bureaucracy, we cover a diverse range of topics including:
QANTAS shareholders fail to block Dixon’s $3m payment
Shareholders blast Qantas over Dixon payout (ABC [...]
20
Oct
2009
Episode 13: The Only Way is Zupp
Tags: 737, 747, Ansett, articles, Australian Aviation, author, Bert Hinkler, book, Bundaberg, Down to Earth, Hinkler Hall of Aviation, Hinkler House, Jabiru, Owen Zupp, RAAF, RFDS, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Skycraft Scout, There and Back
Of all the times for the technical gremlins to strike, it had to be for our “Lucky” 13th episode. We recorded a great discussion with Owen Zupp and, despite a fault in the call recorder that made us repeat a part, we thought we had it in the bag. We even feature our first ever give away in this episode and it’s a beauty (see the notes below for details).
However, [...]
12
Oct
2009
Episode 12: It’s not that late in Adelaide…
Tags: A330, Air New Zealand, Air Traffic Control, Amberley, ATC, ATSB, Black Eyed Peas, Boeing, China, environment, F111, Facebook, Flight Attendant, India, Jetstar, KC-30, Mackay, MRTT, passengers, QANTAS, Queensland, RA-Aus, RAAF, Recreational Aviation Australia, Regional Express, REX, Social Networking, Townsville, Virgin Blue, Wagga
Despite his better judgement, Bas Scheffers comes back to hang out with us once again as we discuss some of the news items from the past week or so. Topics of discussion in this episode include:
Jetstar flight attendant gets in trouble with Facebook:
Jetstar attendant contacted 15yo passenger on Facebook (ABC News)
Jetstar worker in strife over Facebook incident (ABC News)
Mile-high matchmaking: social networking service (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
Jetstar eyes growth [...]
22
Sep
2009
Episode 9: Airplane Geeks Down Under
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
This episode we’re joined by Dan, David & Rob from the Airplane Geeks podcast to discuss airline news and have a great discussion about air traffic control issues here & in the USA. We also have interviews with Dr Bruce Searle, dean of the Australian Centre for Mission Aviation, and Andrew Temby, aerobatic pilot & owner of a YAK-52TW. Both were recorded at the Mission Aviation Fellowship airshow held at [...]
11
Sep
2009
Episode 8: Riding Our Segways
Tags: Adelaide, Air New Zealand, Airplane Geeks, B57, Bankstown, Canberra, Dan Web, Delta, Fiji, finance, Jetstar, Jetstar Pacific, Karla Courtney, Kokoda, QANTAS, QANTAS Travel Insider, RAAF, RFDS, Royal Flying Doctor Service, segways, Shashank Nigam, SimpliFlying, Tecnam, Tiger Airways, Toowomba, Virgin Blue, webjet
We thought we’d have this episode out within a few days of our previous one, but there was so many news items to review, so much to discuss and so many bits to splice together that it took a whole week to bring it to you. Weighing in at almost 2 hours, this episode has interviews, GA, follow ups and much much more.
05
Sep
2009
Episode 7: Matt Hall, we’re not worthy!
This episode detours from our usual opinionated discussion of the news and instead features an interview we were fortunate enough to arrange with Matt Hall, an ex-RAAF F18 pilot who has flown the F15 on exchange with the USAF and is currently flying an MXS aerobatic aircraft in the RedBull AirRace. We were expecting to get a half hour or so to chat with Matt and were thrilled to discover [...]
