Keg ✈️🇦🇺
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Christian, husband, father, son, brother, uncle, friend, colleague, trainer, pilot. Posts are my views. May not reflect my employers. A330, 767, 747-400, A380
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This one’s a blast from the past. My very last landing on the 767. Saturday 21 Dec 14. Video taken by a good mate and fellow 767 driver in the back seat.
Gee it was an awesome machine!
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Coffee dude.
The worst coffee in Australia is still better than the strained sewage that the yanks like to market as coffee.
I literally cannot name one thing that Australia does better than America
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It seems that
@British_Airways
have changed their social media policy meaning that their crew can no longer post photos on Twitter of some of the fantastic views that crew get to see.
Shame that BA will now miss that really positive advertisement that comes from engaged crew.
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This is such a good looking aeroplane in flight that I had to give it a post all to itself.
HARS Super Constellation doing a flyby from stage left.
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Now this is cool. The final door close on
#Qantas747
#Queenoftheskies
#QF7474
Sent to me by one of the crew.
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@3YearLetterman
lol. We boil water in a kettle because we have an electrical system that doesn’t fail when a kettle is plugged in.
But this should be fun! What’s next? 😜😂👍🏼
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Very cool.
#qantas
final
#B747
tracing a
#kangaroo
in the sky as it departs Australian airspace for the final time.
#Queenoftheskies
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Brought a bunch of Swifties across from Perth to Sydney today. They were in fine spirits and insisted on gifting all of the crew these little bracelets.
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A couple of great shots from the folks at of the Dreamliner at Uluru.
If you haven’t seen their work before they’ve got a few awesome shots of Qantas final 747 flight out of Sydney.
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Planned route for the inaugural
#qantas
#dreamliner
#787
PER- LHR. It’s so long it doesn’t show entirely on the one screen shot.
At 8032nm it’s 203nm longer than the great circle route.
Planned at 17:07 flight time.
#aussiespotters
#gamechanger
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Daft take. All pilots are held to the same standard. There is no quarter given. Almost every pilot I fly with couldn’t care less for the sex, race, gender, gender identity, religion or any other attribute of those we fly with.
What do we value above all else? Competency.
Candace Owens: “I would be terrified if I got onto a plane and I saw a woman flying the plane.”
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I hope there is part of the transmission missing on this… but perhaps not.
Seriously, declare MAYDAY. Clear, unambiguous, shuts everyone else up.
‘Declaring an emergency’ is just waffle.
FULL ATC audio I compiled and uploaded to TikTok this morning shows how busy the Alaska 1282 crew was. Amazing job by both pilots quickly working through the situation, getting down to 10,000, and quickly getting back to PDX.
Captions are self-generated so apologies for any
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Arriving into Sydney on a beautiful (albeit a bit breezy) Summer morning from Christchurch.
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The changing colours of sunset approaching Manila.
Sydney- Manila. 11 May 22.
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An absolutely breath taking sunset into Sydney this evening. Autumn really is a fantastic time of year to be flying.
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Well it’s official. Qantas is purchasing A350s, A321XLRs, and A220s.
Release to the share market happened a short time ago.
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In light of the Ural A321 dead stick into a corn field, Airbus have made a new innovation.
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Orbiting the Snowy Mountains at FL130. Lowest level of Class E airspace before we’d be OCTA.
#QF747
#qantas
#jumbojoyflight
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MyGov app, Medicare app, Service NSW app, Check in QLD app, Service Victoria app, Safe WA app, G2G pass app, CovidSafe app, ATO app.
Seriously, can we just consider the ‘Australia Card’ again? It’s not like the government doesn’t have all our data anyway!
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Going back through some old videos and found this cool one of us merging with our shadow as we reach a bank of clouds.
@speedbird020
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Provisional flight plan for QF14, Buenos Aires to Darwin. 8027nm Over the top of Antartica. Planned flight time of 17:21.
I suspect it’ll be daylight virtually all the way given they’re flying with the sun taking off at 1125am and landing 1845 in DRW.
@speedbird020
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Something about a red sky in morning?
High speed descent into Sydney 21 Jul 23.
@speedbird020
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How do you train someone when there is just a single pilot at the controls? Captains are developed over years of flying with more experienced pilots, not just anointed and sent to operate an aeroplane on their own.
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Into the morning Sun.
Turning ‘base’ for SYD 34L after an all night ‘freight dog’ flight from Tokyo.
So thrilled I was able to catch this beautiful moment in time.
@speedbird020
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@sooner_source
@3YearLetterman
False: Australians only flush coffee down the drain when in they’re in the USA after discovering that coffee is American urban slang for strained sewage.
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Established on final into Singapore on a cloudy evening. A time lapse of the approach and landing.
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On approach into Manila on a surprisingly clear afternoon.
When I was an F/O on the 767 this flight was timed for a night time arrival so seeing Manila like this in daylight is fantastic.
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After flying all night, the sunrise in the tropics never fails to impress.
Seoul- Sydney.
The dead bug smudged along the window the only thing that ruined the view!
@speedbird020
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My F/O enjoying a lamb shanks dinner with a beautiful sunset backdrop between Cairns and Sydney last night.
Not enough flying for me recently.
@speedbird020
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Heading to our jet in Shanghai and there is this poor Ethiopian freighter that had a cargo fire on the ground in July 2020. Looking very forlorn. A write off.
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This is the best, and probably most important article
@Joe_Hildebrand
has ever written.
Studio 10 called racist after Australia Day date debate
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Why hello old friend. I have REALLY missed you!
Pushing back from Sydney for Melbourne.
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There are days in this job where you just have to sit back and admire the view- even if it is on just two hours sleep in the last 27.
Thankful for the grace that allows me to have opportunities like this.
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Clearly BA’s message to the crew internally is dramatically different to what they’re saying here. All of BA’s crew on Twitter can’t have all interpreted it the same allegedly incorrect way.
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A West Australian colleague transited Adelaide for 45 minutes. The Captain did a walk around of the aircraft during transit and did not come into contact with SA residents. WA Government now requires them to self isolate on return for 14 days.
What. A. Joke.
Ping
@GemmaTognini
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Prior to 9/11 this would happen in flight. Visits to the flight deck were a common thing. It would almost be unusual if you did not have a visitor on a trans continental or international flight.
It was the start of the aviation journey for many young people.
I miss those days.
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The Great Barrier Reef slides by as we head north towards Narita, Japan.
Final approach on a warm, humid and cloudy evening.
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Turning downwind for runway 25 and getting a great view of the prettiest harbour in the world. HND- SYD arriving 14 Dec 22
@speedbird020
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Happy World Pilots Day.
Two fantastic aviators primed to deliver their passengers to destination.
#safetystartswith2
#worldpilotsday
@IFALPA
@aipa_pilots
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Sydney Harbour looking pristine on a glorious late summer afternoon.
Plus a sneaky pic of my favourite part of town.
#lovetheshire
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Remember folks, being an airline pilot is all about the glamour! 😜😂
(Stuck in a hotel room at Shanghai airport).
And despite the bleak outlook I’m still grateful and feel so blessed that I have a little bit of work.
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An empty Narita terminal. Normally a hive of activity it’s literally deserted except for us as we head to our jet to bring freight back to Australia.
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Off to Singapore for the first time since April and we’ll be allowed to leave the hotel.
Fatty’s here we come! (Best Chinese food in Singapore for those who were thinking something different with that statement!)
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A couple of photos from today’s SYD- MEL sector. First landing in the jet in 188 days. Better than I expected on MEL 34.
Great snow coverage just south of Canberra, Mt Kosciuszko, our shadow with a nice rainbow halo on descent into Melbourne.
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So I reckon I could land on it. Getting a taxi home though looks like it’d still be a problem.
Western Sydney airport starting to look the goods though.
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Downtown Ho Chi Minh City on a beautifully clear evening.
As seen from FL330 southbound from Bangkok.
@speedbird020
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I can’t wait to find out the story behind this one! Certainly SIN- Baku is not a new Qantas route!
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There are days when this job delivers the most spectacular scenery. The photos don’t do it justice!
Interestingly it lasts for just a few minutes before the light changes again.
@speedbird020
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@FlightLevel180
MAYDAY is ICAO standard phraseology. It’s literally what the rest of the world uses. Having now done some digging I can see that the FAA doesn’t use the same firmness in terminology that virtually everyone else does. It’s definitely a defect of the US system I reckon.
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Sitting in the back and on descent into Sydney airport with a beautiful sunset backdrop.
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@PolybiusChamp
@3YearLetterman
No doubt it is. Australians normally rate it marginally above the quality of jokes that Yanks use when trying to make a crack on the whole Australia/ Austria thing.
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They finally arrived. So thrilled to have these as a momento of my time on the
#qantas
#Queenoftheskies
.
I flew OJN just six times as a F/O and was ‘pilot flying’ five of those times. My second last landing on the
#B747
was on OJN into LHR. Now I have a bit of her forever.
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Sun setting over Gulf of St Vincent just west of Adelaide as we head toward Melbourne.
@speedbird020
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The flight plan for QF787 ‘flight to nowhere’ today.
@flightradar24
showed a scenic departure from Sydney and no doubt they’ll be down low again for the flight over the barrier reef up near Hamilton Island (HM) and again out near Uluru (AYE).
@speedbird020
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Honolulu bound. First time since November last year. Looks like a relatively smooth evening.
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100 years ago today, in a tiny outback town in Queensland, an airline that would become a worldwide icon was born.
I was recruited as a S/O in the 75th year of
@qantas
existence. I’m humbled to be contributing to its legacy of operational excellence as a Captain at its 100th.
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Never have I ever been so excited as to see a sim session appear on my roster! After 178 days I’m heading back to work.
It may be only for a month but in these times you take what you can get.
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I flew with Kev lots on the 767. He’s a champion bloke and my heart breaks reading this article! I’ll be buying the book for sure.
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No, they don’t
@newscomauHQ
They show a perfectly working thrust reverser system. That is also the right engine. My sources suggest it was Left engine that was shut down.
I’d call you ‘muppets’ but I’m trying to be better at not using names when calling out ignorance.
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I can’t fathom this headline. Contest to the reporting the initial report did NOT confirm ‘the aircraft was lucky not to break up in mid-air’.
This was a significant turbulence event but these sorts of headlines are appalling and disgusting. Click bait!
We now have a much better picture of what happened on board that Singapore Airlines flight that was nearly shaken out of the sky last week, and it's terrifying. The first report has been released, confirming the aircraft was lucky not to break up in mid-air.
@MyleeHogan
#7NEWS
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Up close and personal with
@Qantas
‘Yam Dreaming’.
So shiny you can see the reflection of the aerobridge on her nose art.
#aussiespotters
#yamdreaming
#QantasDreamliner
#Qantas
#newroo
#avpic
#avgeek
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Normally I’m posting red Qantas tails in the sunset.
Today it’s a beautiful maple leaf sunset in Vancouver.
Only a two hour transit and a 15 hour flight to go.
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Provisional flight plan for the second ever JFK- SYD flight. A flight time just short of 19 hours though probably a bit longer once SYD arrivals are factored into it. God speed to the crew.
@speedbird020
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If ever you wanted to see political policy dressed up as ‘safety theatre’ (designed to look safe rather than to actually be safe) look no further than
@MarkMcGowanMP
approach to crew isolation requirements and crew overnighting in WA from the eastern states.
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Imagine trying to deal with an engine failure in a single pilot airliner. Just imagine the coordination required between that single pilot and cabin crew, ATC, passengers, other aircraft, monitoring the aircraft performance, engaging with the company, setting up for approach, etc
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This is what 10 hours of back of the clock ‘fun’ looks like tonight.
Followed by the obligatory 14 days of isolation despite having not been within 2m of a single soul whilst in Shanghai. Bring on open borders and no more iso BS.
@speedbird020
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Northbound to Japan. Leaving Australia’s coastline over the Whitsundays.
Downtown Guam.
Sunset south of Iwo Jima.
@speedbird020
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The final
#Qantas
#B747
#Queenoftheskies
departs Australia with the first of the fleet in the foreground.
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As we made our turn over the harbour on the way to Apia last week one of the crew in the cabin were taking this beautiful video of our departure.
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Sometimes the job has perks. Even if it comes off the back of an overnight flight and little sleep.
Last time in HNL for probably a few years as the 787 takes over the route from the A330 soon.
@speedbird020
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Saturday morning. Sydney departure board. Pre Covid this screen would have shown flights only for the next couple of hours. In Covid world this is the entire day.
Fingers crossed sanity prevails when we get to 80% double vaxx’d and Aussies can start to live life again.
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I live just down the road from a NSW Public school. It’s awesome listening to them play the
@sydneyswans
theme song at lunch time each Monday after a victory!
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And now for the trip home! 7:10 of fun and another sunrise proudly sponsored by my employer!
For the
#avgeeks
note that we’re on a ‘flex track’ once inside Australian airspace taking advantage of winds and direct tracking.
@speedbird020
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A couple of Dawn shots as we enter Australian airspace on the flight from Haneda. The 25 minute ATC delay on arrival was not what is preferred after a 9 hour overnight flight!
@speedbird020
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Sun setting as we pass over central Queensland on the way home from Japan.
Love this time of night for the awesome colours.
@speedbird020
@aipa_pilots
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Dwarfed by CBs (cumulonimbus clouds aka Thunderstorms) northwest of Manila before commencing our approach into an eerily quiet Hong Kong Airport on a glorious early evening.
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A quiet
@SydneyAirport
means no 34R for arrival and instead a left circuit for 34L.
The bonus is a fantastic view of Sydney Harbour, the bridge and the Opera House.
@speedbird020
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