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Welcome hope you have fun here its great :D

I put my slippers on lol

http://www.theaussieaviator.net/index.php?ind=blog&op=home&idu=740 Well here is my second episode hope you all enjoy Cheers Nick 8)

Only when i landed and took off most of the Air Force is down the eastern end of the airport seperate to the main airport. here were alot of C-17's and on approach i saw a sub in Pearl Harbour moving out to sea. Its kinda like brisbane airport distance apart if u know what i mean.

it's really annoying you think that it would be the opposite, you just payed all that money to go oversea's at least they ccould do is amke the food reasonably priced. But the funny thing is we do not oppose we just get use to it :evil:

Well yet another holiday i did this one a couple of months ago. Well it started of badly to begin with i rocked up at check in at Qantas there's the first problem. They told us that we could not sit together as a family one side of me said yipee and the other said OMG i might sit next to some weirdo but anyway i stuck with it. So went through customs went and got a pizza which in true airport style cost me an arm and a leg. Sat around in the terminal which had repairs going on which was annoying but then again it was the new terminal for the A380 so i was ok with it. There were screaming kids and broken chairs and planks of wood for walls it was pretty depressing so i went to the duty free store where i bought a new 2GB sd card for my camera that took about 20min. I went and got another arm and a leg pizza but they were closing so all they had was a hawaiin which made scence because i was going to hawaii. Well boarding time came around and as i walked down the jet way i said goodbye to the family and took my seat. Every person that walked by i thought please don't be him please be her not him etc etc. By this time it was around 9pm Well to my surprise an Irish women sat next to me. She was very nice and plesant to talk to, she was back packing around the world. well after much discussion and many lost hands at snap (i blame it on the luck of the irish). She fell asleep, i soon followed. As the sun came up almost everyone was out of there seat no one was sitting down they were all going to the toilet i was thinking what the hell very strange. Anyway there was a very nice flight attendent he was from africa i nick named him humphry because he was about 8 foot tall and could kill me in one punch but he was so nice. He came by gave me a pen and a deck of cards plus 2 extra meals because you know no body gets enough food out of airline meals. Well after we landed we were taken by a bus into customs but its very very different in Honolulu airport its more relaxed no windows no scary security guards every 20 metres. Well after much laying around on the beach and going surfing i went to the island of Hilo were i visited a dinner Kens diner actually the planes came so low that you could scream as loud as u could and no body could hear you. it was the true american dinner the huge cook that probably sleeps with a meat clever under his pillow. Anyway after that it was home again the flight home was like every other but custom's wasn't i was pulled over taken into an interigation room i was scared shitless. They thought i was smuggling drugs they did the test's and i was clear the full story was i bought some 2 kilo's of beef jerky from walmart and they thought no body can eat that much but they found it was clean but they still took it off me. Thats it no more writing i have already writen enough now just some pictures for you all enjoy. No zoom used in this picture There was a mountan in Hilo which was 15 000 feet high and the rental car company said don't drive up it so what do you do... drive up it off course here she is at the top. The view from the hotel Well i hoped you enjoyed Cheers Nick 8)

I did this trip in August 2006.

Well after 7 days in Hong Kong and main land China it was finally time to go home. So we arrived on time at Hong Kong airport checked in went through customs and to see it absolutely jam packed full of people. If you have ever been to Hong Kong airport then you will understand that this is an amazing scene. This was due to the Typhoon that had been going through Hong Kong for the past 3 days all flights had been grounded during this time. Anyway Cathay Pacific had placed all of its remaining passengers wanting to get to Australia onboard Virgin Atlantic (which was who i was flying with). We arrived at our gate 25 with 10 minutes to spare and then there was a piece of paper saying that they had changed our gate to 115 which was right on the other side of the airport knwoing we only had about 10 min to spared my family and i ran accross the airport only to see about 100 other people waiting at gate 115 for the Virgin Atlantic. After 3 hours of sitting on the flour and 15 starbucks later they were ready for boarding so we trudged out on the tarmac in the rain got on board and not a single seat left on the plane. I was sat next to some guy i think he was a high powered business judgeing by the suit and the versace we were seated right in front of the toilet so all night i got no sleep at all. I finally got a break and caught about an hour of sleep and when i thought that i had a 2 hour drive home plus another 4 hours up to forster for my fathers reunion i though this was never going to end. I opened my window shade only to find this stunning view which i was lucky enough to photograph that gave me some happines. Anyway after landing 3 hours late and a hold up in customs we were home and happy at last :mrgreen: Well i hope you all enjoyed my brief story Cheers Nick 8)

I came across this ACARS monitor for Sydney and its great i am sure it might help some Sydney members who do not have any other ACARS gear. I am sure a few people have heard of this but i thought i might post it up anyway. http://www.16right.com/ACARSmap.htm

Up to you mate :) Sure why not Link changed :!:

Well Glenn if you wanted i could some for TAA if you wanted? I was thinking about having guests and like having a chat between two people around aviation so its more relaxed than just a report. Also that might solve your front page content. yeah i might do some more i will be doing one tommorow if this cold weather and rain keeps up. Cheers Nick 8)

Hey well i thought i would do a Podcast based soley around Australian aviation all i found were American ones. I am so embarressed to post this please be brutely honest with me i want to know My hearts beeting 100 mile an hour. http://www.zshare.net/audio/106274976e12aece/

I Really thought he wasn't going to lift off. [youtube:7efxqxnz]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feGZ4l5fk4Q[/youtube:7efxqxnz]

You lol well done =D>

Can't beat the old 1968 logo on the 747 =P~ [ATTACH]17769[/ATTACH]

Mate i'm 15 and i am just waiting for it to get warmer so i can start flying again. Glider Pilots we're a funny breed. The earlier you start the better mate :mrgreen: And Jack i don't know why your not starting now?

Welcome i hope you have fun here :D Love your display picture =D>

Premium economy with Virgin Atlantic is pretty good its alot better than Qantas Business though.

My mum works out at the airport and she told me that a baggage handler asked andrew johns as he was walking onto the plane for an autograph. Andrew John's told him no. He was heading to Brisbane for a footy match but his luggage went to melbourne. Another helpful tip from Nick don't mess with baggage handlers :mrgreen: Cheers Nick 8)

Great shots there mate i bet you had a good time to. The food actually looks tasty unlike some airlines.

When i went to Hawaii i was slowly reclining and this women said to me stop and i said sorry but may i aks why. She said she was pregnant and she needed room. I said no problems how many weeks are you (this is the funny part) she told me 3 weeks. I told her to get real and I reclined. The ignorance of some people today :evil:

Ok i fixed it for you all :mrgreen: