Tim E

Make sure the coffee is in the non waving hand Darren! :biggrin: Have a good flight (s)! Cheers Tim.

Wasn't sure whether to post this in Aviaton videos or here..but figured it fitted more into Humour. You might remember this Chainy! Hope nothing like this happens on any of ur flights Darren! :biggrin: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o5zipU6r7o]YouTube - When Magoo Flew[/ame]

Saw this posted elsewhere..thought you might enjoy it. :biggrin: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo]YouTube - United Breaks Guitars[/ame] Apparently United have responded positiveley to the video and are contacting the offended party to try to rectify the situation. Hope they do before the next two vids come out!

Thought the giraffe query was a tall order Glenn..or should I say stretching the imagination..or did I mean sticking ur neck out? :biggrin:

I am planning a trip too and VA are my number 1 pick. Good plane, best seats (more comfy and not as squishy seat width wise which is important on a long flight)and very good service from feedback I have. If you can be flexible with your dates you could pick up a good deal. :biggrin:.

Thanks Chainy!:biggrin:

Hi all..finally solved the puzzle about that plane..beautiful blue sky up here today and saw one plane really high with a single contrail (Possibly a Lear Jet or similar?)..anyway when watching through my old tinted binocs this white jet suddenly turned a beautiful blue turqoise colour when the sun hit it at an angle..got pout the new bincos without the tints and it was a normal white colour..so it was the binocs all the time changing the colours on the planes! :) Who needs a new plane paint job costing heaps of $ when a pair of binocs will do it for free! By the way Chainy...just about to install planeplotter here!

Hi Dan. I agree with Darren. Give V Australia a good look and if you can be flexible a little with dates you could get a great deal. I am planning the same trip as you. They have some great fares but also a great plane with probably the best seats for comfort, width and legroom..and good service from what I have been told. Qantas are worth a look too. United and Delta have great deals going too..though you might want to check www.seatguru.com and http://www.airlinequality.com. These sites have seating arrangements (seat guru) and also passenger reviews of seats and service (airline quality/Skytrax). After doing my research from these two sites and people I know, I think V Australia comes out way in front..but thats from my perspective. Good luck! Tim

Enjoyed the pics Dave..thanks for sharing. Its nice when yo uget a bonus like that isn't it.

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Looks good! http://www.news.com.au/travel/gallery/0,23607,5038925-5007153,00.html

Did anyone else see this? ANZAC trifecta. You'll enjoy this one Daz! http://www.news.com.au/travel/gallery/0,23607,5057825-5007153,00.html

Thanks Darren .... yes guess that saves fuel even over a longer distance than the more direct route. Actually Clare said the weather over Melbourne was bad at the time..worst and bumpiest part of the flight..must have been when that rainstorm hit yesterday arvo. Thanks Tim

Hi Darren..just seems a long way to go..? is it a weather thing or fuel thing? Guess I was assuming they would fly in a more direct line..??Tim

Hi All. My friend Clare flew from Auckland to Singapore yesterday and she just told me her flight actually flew over Melbourne yesterday during the bad weather? Is this a normal flight path for a NZ-Singapore flight? Anyone got any ideas why it might have taken this route? Thanks. Tim

If my lotto plans work out tonight Daz I might see you on some of those Qld flights! :biggrin:

Good one Darren. Well done. Have an enjoyable time crewing.

Don't know if anyone has already posted this. Nice plane pics. Tim http://www.news.com.au/travel/gallery/0,23607,5038925-5007153,00.html

Yes would have been good Darren..though was on the school bus this time. Last year would have been great ... we had a beaut frosty blue sky morinng and at 9 a.m we had 5 craft doing these ellipse circuits in the blue sky up here..was truly a wondrous sight!

Thanks ads..thats really handy info ..good to know whats going on down there. Appreciated. All those missed approaches..good skilled work going on by sounds of it that ensured all worked out well. Tim

Travelling into Wangaratta on the bus this morning..saw a delightful elliptical contrail in the blue sky over in the East on the Syd-Mel flight path. Thought at first YMML must have been fogged in but it was only one craft and only one circuit before it tootled on its way down to the big smoke. Last year we had 5 planes doing circuits up here when YMML fogged in..any idea why this one was the only one or what it might have been doing? :confused: Don't think it was Santa looking for my chimney Robbo just in case thats what you were thinking! :) (wrong time of year)

Hi Chainy and Robbo..up till recently it was a "No" but now we have the OK..just waiting on those numbers tonight! LOL :biggrin:

Robbo and Glenn..in the words of the infamous Greenbottle (from the olde radio series "Yes What").."How could you say sooch a thing!" : LOL What.... me reply to the e mail link? :) Almost guilty..just stopped myself before finger hit the button! :biggrin:

Yep Robbo..hopefully one powerful enough to see the pilots faces...one day..just waiting on the big lotto win!..could be tonight! Guess what I almost did Glenn..actually you probably won't need to guess!:)

Good find VH....seems to suggest the one I saw wasnt Air Vietnam though lots of things seemed to co -incide..colours and time..the plane that overflew here seemed headed directly to Sydney and was followed almost exactly 5 minutes later by UA 840....from memory it was around 11.35-11.45. Your pic looks very similar though I think my colour was slightly distorted by the coloured lenses on my binocs which made it look to have a little more green/turquoise..wonder if it could have been a cargo plane I saw.