Mattie Cribb

Wow Nice Report so Far, And yeah it was Rwy14 you landed on. And Wooooo Go Airbus, Oh and Todd when you landed on Rwy14 then taxied off Kilo then onto charlie was the Taxiway there Bumpy ?

Hahaha Thoes Aircraft are From Cooly well iknow 441 is Nice Pics too

Well Done and Congrats, Bit achivement in Flying i remember mine as if it were yesterday got chilles dwn my spin when i went solo hmm the memories.....again good work and congrats

Mattie

Yeah i saw her arrive in sydney when i was down on Saturday came in about some time 1/2/3Pm didnt take not of time but yeah it does look nice

Video to come here

Videos are to Come they are uploading Now!

Day1

What a Weekend had My cousins 21st Bday Party and it was Funn!

Well it all started at 5am Saturday morning had to get ready for the airport

We left the house at 5:46am and got to the airport at 6am.

had No dramas with check in or security but then it hit me i was missing something my wallet which was in the car so i had to Run back to the car then Back again threw security AGAINN!!

We then Started to Boarded the aircraft at 0635.

Today i was on VOZ/DJ500 in a B737-800 Reg VH-VOK Boarding

Thought Gate 4 On the Gold coast

We Entered the Aircraft from the Back i was in Seat 30A right up the back

Pushed back on-time and winds were in favour of Rwy32 so a very short Taxi, On that Note anyone who has been to Gold coast and Taxied to Rwy32 on Charlie is it Bumpy it was funny like had Hydraulics in those cars that go up and down haha was funny

so anyway we departed on-time 0730 off Rwy32 and off to Sydney we went was few bumps here and there but not too bad a flight, The captain or F/O didn’t come over and say anything the whole flight for some reason most VB flights i have been on they haven’t come over the PA. So were Flying

Just Below the Clouds maybe FL360

Then we were on decent, Passed Right of the City was nice to see the city for once always on the wrong side, We arrived on Rwy 16L and wow what a landing the Captain or F/O smacked it in haha

We landed at about 8:15 so was a slow long taxi back to the gate which was 31 and arrived right on time at 0830 we collected our bags and Got our Hire Car.

Over all was a Good Flight with Virgin Blue Was on-time and had no major problems at Either end of flight.

Day2

After a Big Party it was time to go home was just a Flying Visit wish we could have stayed longer but parents had to work but o well

Today i was flying on JST/JQ414 SYD-OOL

We Went to Check in at the kiosk thingies that Jetstar Had then Dropped off Our Bags at the counter all went well Then we had 1hr to look around well that 1hr was gone because we spent like 12-15Min Lining up to drop off our Bags then like 30Min getting through security so we had no time to look around.

When we dropped off our bad we were Told that our Gate had Changed from 49 to 53 and i was then sadden to see we didn’t Get the A321 which we were meant to be on so instead we got the A320 Reg VH-VQW one of Jetstar Older Aircraft and we only Used the forward door only today as we had a Small Load i would say the aircraft was about 70% full so i suppose i don’t blame them for the aircraft change,

So we boarded at 1400 and pushed back at 1420 and Taxied the Long way to Rwy34R i was going to film the safety but haha ½ way thought my camera started to beep because it was full was a bit embarrassing so i didn’t get to record anything L only took some Pictures so we took off on the normal Entra Sid which is always fun

Today’s flight was Bumpy till we got cleared of clouds and it was very hazy

As we passed Newy the Captain came over the PA and said that we were passing 24,000feet on climb to 37,000feet and that weather on arrival was clear and that we will be flying over land and be descending at Grafton before flying over water again. So we got to FL370 and this is what i saw for most of the time

And then it would clear abit

So we started to decent at Grafton and pass over Ballina east of Byron up the coast and we landed on Rwy32 when we were over water it was very very very smooth the Pilots then put The Gear down First thing they did then it was the flaps shortly after was a nice approach

Then it got rough passing over tweed and then it was

Touchdown!

Was a nice landing then we got off the Rwy at C and taxied back to the gate haha it was funny we didn’t even get off the Rwy and People were taking their seatbelts off but we got off the VQW and walked into the Terminal got our Bags and headed Home was a Great short weekend had lots of Fun!!

The Crew on Jetstar and Virgin Blue were great and Very Friendly and they both had positives and no Negatives apart from the Captain F/O not going over the PA on the VB Flight but was good flights...

Thanks for Reading my Trip Report if you made it this far haha

Hehe I was in Sydney This Afternoon Now Back Home on the Goldcoast But yeah i saw it hehe OMG its Hot in sydney!!

What do you have to have to get into this Academy ? do they offer Jobs after training and do they only train thoes without experience or will they train people with experience ? Im looking for things todo Next year anyHelp

Hey what is this Academy haha like what do they offer over other school etc

Hey all,

I just have a silly question i have no idear about

but wasent Rwy 07/25 ment to like close or somthing becase they were extending it

i dont know if im like slow but yeah i though Rwy07/25 was closed for a while. so anyway to the Question was Rwy07/25 ever closed or will it be closed haha

Mattie

I will be Flying on DJ/VOZ500 YBCG-YSSY at 0605am 21stNOV QLD time does anyone know what Aircraft i will be in??

Hahah Man i wish i had my CPL/ATPL and a whole lot of hours i would be over there in a flash haha

Darren are they still looking for Pilots over in Auckland for Jetstar

Hmm i missed it when i was down there today

Hahah True True thats why im so keen to know...

Also to the theory of it going to brisbane becase it was empty its weird that they would send an empty aircraft to AGAGI which is the First Way point for most South Bound Flight its 40Nm to the West of the coast and to then turn it back to the coast and head north to BNE its just weird haha

haha. But yeah it landed Into Brisbane its really weird that it would turn back to brisbane if it had a problem when Cooly was closer so i Wonder wonder wonder??

From what iknow it just depends on your Flying school like some come up with there own bars they may be red, blue or some other colour the place to really ask if your Flying school as many have there own students uniform at mine i see people where the Black and white CPL students but they dont wear any Bars so yeah just depends....at my stage of training i dont wear it but yeah hmm a heated debate is what this topic is about to wear bars or not to wear bars as a student............that is the Question???

Hmm its Very intresting but it landed into BNE didnt sound like it had any troubles so yeah Very Very Weird..

This morning around 7-8am VH-VQF JST403 departed OOL for SYD but

For some reason did its normal Track for APAGI but then Turned East and went Back up the Coast Looked as if it was heading for YBBN(brisbane) but if it had a problem it would return to Cooly (you would think) but hmm anyone got any idears on what is was doing?:confused:

Mattie

ahhhhhh hehe thanks Glenn and Chainy

Ok I have spoted VH-SSA Again Callsign AGC1 Heading South From BNE at FL380 any idears where she is off to this time?

Hahah thanks craig its alll clear now :)

hahah thanks for clearing it but but one more question why VBH ? dont they use VOZ for Domestic and PBI for Inter ? idont know alot about VB hehe