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    ATC in AU Airspace.

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    I would like a dollar for everytime this topic has come up over the years.:)

     

    We have tried to change the patten and thinking of pilots by opening differing area's within oz but the east coast from BN down to ML still remains the hot spot.

     

    But i think we will solve the crisis in the middle east and climate change before we can change this.

     

    But I would be happy to be proven wrong

    Good Bye FS 11

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    Also from Flightblogger http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/

     

     

    With the economy spiraling further and further into a hole, Microsoft announced yesterday it was laying of 5000 employees. We learned today, though still officially unconfirmed by Microsoft, that the cuts include the disbanding of the ACES Studio team which is responsible for Flight Simulator. It appears as though the venerable flight simulator, which has been around since 1982, is no more.

     

    When mega businesses like Boeing or Microsoft eliminate jobs, the impact reverberates throughout the economy. The loss of 5000 Microsoft jobs is a huge blow in its own right, but the Flight Simulator community, which is truly global, will feel the loss as well. Many developers make their living creating addons for the program. The impact is far from localized.

     

    As many of you know, I am an avid user of Flight Sim as well, having flown one version or another since 1995. In no uncertain terms, Flight Sim cultivated my love of aviation and helped me get to where I am today. I joke with my mother that all those times she was yelling at me during High School to do my homework and stop shooting ILS approaches to Kai Tai, I was really just getting job training for the future.

     

    Microsoft Flight Simulator was an institution both personally and for the aviation community and its loss will be strongly felt

    Pelican On Short Final

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    Really?? Should be in the AIP under things to avoid hitting at all costs.

     

    To answer a few questions,

     

    Camera is a Olympus E410 SLR

    Location Shellharbour NSW

    The pelicans are very use to people so I was standing in with them for the close up shot.

     

    As oftern stated the best pics are the ones you don't plan. I was on my way to take some pics of my kids in the pool when I noticed a guy starting to gut fish on the rocks. The rest is history.

     

    Cheers

    Pelican On Short Final

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    Thanks Guy's,

     

    The day I took the pics the wind was blowing upto 90 knots hence how I could get the shots on the pelican coming in so slow.

     

    Here are 2 more. The seagull was over my head and with a stepladder i could of plucked him out of the air.

     

    The camera is a olympus E410 SLR

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    New arrival

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    Hi All,

    Thanks for all the best wishes.

     

    Riley joined us yesterday the same as his two big sisters via caesarean section at 9.08am

     

    Up until yesterday one of the biggest frights of my life was as a newbie all those years ago logging on to see the famous Roland Collins on Melbourne East Centre and hoping I didn't bugger it up (Now I try my hardest too).

     

    But that fright has now been well and truly overtaken as of 9.07am yesterday when the one doctors operating on lisa turned into 10 all yelling comments like he is stuck and we need oxgen quick and doing the best to get him out. Thank god they did!!

     

    Now like only a new father will know I have the stinging eyes, ones from being awake from since 5am yesterday arrving home today at 6am while my 4 and 2 year old make sure I don't nod off!:(

     

    But after yesterday I wouldn't have it any other way!;)

    Diary of a Newbie.

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    Very true Rob about what it must be like for newbies.

     

    I remember when I started (9 years now I think)

    We had to use that program that nealy killed us all Roger Wilco.

    Trying to get the CSL's to work!

    Squakbox Relay!!

    127.0.0.01 (from memory)

    Loading waypoints into sbox 2.3 hoping you would end up somewhere close to your destination.

    NO FMC!

    Terrain Mesh was something to keep termites out.

     

    I womder what the next 10 years will bring.

    BA B777 Lands Short

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    Hi All,

     

    Lot's of speculation at the moment as to why, main 2 computer failure and dodgy fuel.

     

    From http://www.flightglobal.com

     

     

     

    Preliminary investigations into yesterday?s crash of a British Airways Boeing 777-200ER at London Heathrow have discovered that, on the final approach, the engines did not respond to demands for increased thrust.

     

    An initial statement from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch says that the aircraft, arriving from Beijing, was 2nm from touchdown at a height of 600ft, with the autopilot and auto-throttle engaged, when the auto-throttle demanded higher thrust from the two Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines.

     

    But the AAIB says the powerplants ?did not respond? to the auto-throttle request, adding: ?Following further demands for increased thrust from the auto-throttle, and subsequently the flight crew moving the throttle levers, the engines similarly failed to respond.?

     

    As a result the 777?s airspeed reduced and the aircraft lost height, touching down 1,000ft (300m) short of runway 27L, to which it had been conducting an instrument landing system approach.

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