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Flight Experience – ‘as real as it gets’ without leaving the ground
Last weekend I had the pleasure of going on a 90-min session in the Flight-Experience (FE) 737-NG sim at their branch in Hamilton. The family got together for my last birthday and shelled out for a...
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There and Back – tales of flying, and woe
I’ve just got home from a week long trip to Norway for a conference, yes really and thought I’d share some tales of aircraft fun.. and terror.. along the way. First up was a Singapore Airlines...
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WmChamberlain posted some thoughts this week over in the “At the teachers desk” blog about the value of online conversations. I started a response which ended up being a post of its own, which I...
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Now THATS what I call ATC coverage – California Screaming
Much to the dismay of my domestic operations manager (the missus) I got up this morning at 5am, signed on to VATSIM, and flew two domestic B733 legs for SouthWest Airlines as part of the ZLA...
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A simmers dream come true – Jumpseat ride in an Air New Zealand 737
I’ve just figuratively come back down to earth after what to me was the ultimate boys own adventure. A few weeks ago now I got to take a daytime jump-seat ride from Auckland to Queenstown return in an...
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What is the new Workspace?
The Cisco Collaboration Community hosted another live chat via Twitter today as part of the series of open discussions about collaboration and unified communications. This latest session was focused on...
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The Meet-up is dead, long live meetup.com
Auckland web developers meetup – 23/June/2011 Meetup.com is one of those many web services people flocked to enthusiastically a few years back when it first appeared on the virtual social landscape. I...
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Asia/Pacific repaints for the Simcheck Airbus A300
I’m a recent convert to the lovely Simcheck A300 Airbus model for Microsoft’s FSX simulator and I love it. The A300 was the first Airbus aircraft model and the first of any manufacturer to explore...
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Fun with .. Cardboard
We had our fair share of rain at Hahei last week, so one day I ripped open a cardboard box, attacked it with scissors and cellotape and made Paige this fort to play with. Well boys would call it a...
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Single speed Z-Biking
Back in the 90′s, before most of you were born, yours truly Dino Borelli flirted very briefly with a little Triathlon around the Waikato region. I puffed my through a lot of sprint-length Tris, some...
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