Tag Archives: Cockpit

Merry Christmas

25 December, 2015 · by · in News, Personal, Photographs, QF32 Story · 21 Comments

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays / Happy Days where ever you are … Enjoy these two  photos taken from my office.  Here is a photos from the flight today over Turkey,     The world is indeed a small place when at just 40,000 feet we fly above 75% of the Earth’s atmosphere.  At a […]

Why I am a Pilot

21 December, 2014 · by · in A380, Motivation, Passengers, Personal, Psychological · 15 Comments

Why am I a pilot? It’s to give each passenger the safest and best experience possible on my aircraft – it’s to “Make Their Day” It’s not for the seven licence recertification tests that I must pass each year to continue in my profession. It’s not for the time and energy it takes to become […]

Torches

12 January, 2014 · by · in Airbus, Back Stories, Leadership, Motivation, Passengers, Personal, Qantas History · 15 Comments

Flying IS the sport of kings.   Guiding 500 passengers and manipulating $400m worth of the highest technology through congested airspace to the other side of the planet is a privilege that few experience. I’ve just returned from a great flight over the weekend from Sydney to Los Angeles.   I took the photo above […]