• Episode 6: John Bartels & QF30

    Episode 6: John Bartels & QF30

    FlightPodcast | April 17, 2011 | 12 Comments

    Qantas Flight 30 (QF30) was a Qantas Boeing 747-438 (construction number 25067 & registered in Australia as VH-OJK). QF30 was a scheduled flight from London to Melbourne with a stopover in Hong Kong on 25 July 2008. The flight was interrupted when an oxygen tank exploded causing a fuselage rupture just forward of the starboard wing root. There were no injuries and the plane made an emergency (rapid) descent and… Continue Reading



     
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  • Episode 5: John King

    Episode 5: John King

    FlightPodcast | November 26, 2010 | 15 Comments

    John and Martha King operate King Schools from their 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) complex in San Diego, USA (near near Montgomery Field). Course development, production, customer service and shipping all occur at this location. Course videos are filmed either in the in-house digital studio or at nearby Montgomery Field. They have a hand in training over 50% of all the pilots in the USA at some point during their flight training… Continue Reading



     
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  • Episode 4: Bo Corby & NWA Flight 41 into Tehran

    Episode 4: Bo Corby & NWA Flight 41 into Tehran

    FlightPodcast | November 11, 2010 | 22 Comments

    On June 19, 2005 at 0435 in the morning Tehran local time, Northwest Airlines Flight 41 made an emergency landing at the Meherabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran, the first American air carrier to land in Iran in 26 years. Iran is considered to be a hostile country by the US Government and relations between the two countries are poor.

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  • Episode 3: Janine Shepherd

    Episode 3: Janine Shepherd

    FlightPodcast | October 22, 2010 | 13 Comments

    Janine Lee Shepherd, AM (born 1962) was a champion Australian cross-country skier until she suffered major injuries when hit by a truck during training. Before the accident, she had been considered a strong chance to win Australia’s first ever medal at the Winter Olympics. Though she was told she would never walk again or have children, and doctors had significant doubts as to whether she would survive at all, she… Continue Reading



     
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  • Episode 2: Andy Thorley, Kirsty Ferguson, Mary Kirby & Chris Williams

    Episode 2: Andy Thorley, Kirsty Ferguson, Mary Kirby & Chris Williams

    FlightPodcast | August 29, 2010 | 26 Comments

    Show Notes

    Thanks for listening! In between the schedules of four international airline rosters, the production of enormous amounts of video (including the production of an Australian TV program) and lots of recording, we let number two slip a little. Number three, titled Janine Shepherd, should follow very shortly. We’ve recorded some audio with some incredible personalities and we look forward to bringing their stories to you.

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Our Websites

Here are just some of our own aviation websites.

flight.org Ken, Marty & Adam blog at flight.org. It can be best described as an aviation lifestyle blog where we talk about a range of issues.

Karlene Petitt Karlene blogs at karlenepetitt.blogspot.com. Karlene blogs about her daily life as an A330 pilot. A regular feature of her blog is her Friday Fabulous Flyer where she features a pilot’s journey in aviation.

NewsAviation.com NewsAviation.com is our own website that archives thousands of news headlines from about 18,000 different news sources and industry blogs.

FlightPlanning.com FlightPlanning.com is a site we had intended to develop into a full online flight planning resource. At this stage it remains as an aircraft registration database source where you can search aircraft registrations from various countries.

Waypoints.ws Waypoints.ws is a database of Australian airway waypoints and published airways. We’ll add international database sources over time.

CrewResourceManagement.net Our CRM website is the beginnings of a larger CRM resource. We’ve published a CRM instructor resource that will soon be available to anybody (at this stage it’s members only). We’ve also just started a dedicated CRM blog. Stay tuned for more from this resouce.

AviationUsenet.com Usenet is the world’s largest discussion medium. We have a full usenet interface for Aviation Usenet where we archive millions of news articles. We’re in a late beta stage so registration will be available soon. You can read dedicated Australian discussions at Usenet.com.au.

CessnaConquest.net CessnaConquest.net is the first of many aircraft specific websites we’re building for pilots to get engineering knowledge.

InterNoetics.com InterNoetics.com is just one of our (largely unpopular) websites where we dump a little bit of our web related knowledge from time-to-time.

We have a large number of other aviation specific websites and we’ll provide details soon.