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🎙️ Launching the FLY! Podcast – Series 1
I am proud to announce the launch of the FLY! Podcast – Series 1, produced in collaboration with Nova Entertainment and The Fordham Company. Based on my book FLY! – The Elements of Resilience, this...
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Flying Approaches for Dummies
Version 3, Feb 25, 2021 TECHNICAL – FOR PILOT’S EYES ONLY QF32 follower Riccardo Parachini writes: Hi Richard, I’d like to ask a curiosity. Cadet pilots starting their career on a big jet (say A320,...
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Turn It Off!
The perils of automation – Aviation, Tesla and the Australian Open The Australian Open Tennis Championship has fallen for the same automation trap that that the aviation industry has been suffering...
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Considerations – How to Flare and Land a Big Jet
Question Ricky recently asked me the following question on the QF32 web site: Good evening Richard, I read all your books and have been huge inspiration during my training to become a pilot. I read you...
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4 November 2019 – the 9th Anniversary of QF32
QF32 Passenger Johanna Friis Today, the 4th November 2019 is the 9th Anniversary of Flight QF32, an event that changed my, Coral’s, our passengers’, crews’ and many others’ (Second Victims) lives....
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Intrepid and Resilient
Click here to see my posting about Apollo 11 on the FLY! website
View ArticleApollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins & Kranz) – Tough and Competent
From FLY-theBook.com Apollo 11 50 years ago today, as Apollo 11 completed its Trans Lunar Injection burn to accelerate and position into a Free Return Trajectory on the way to the moon, it’s worth...
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Australia Day 2016 – ICAO & RAeS –“Nancy-Bird Walton Lecture”
Update – 4 March 2019 I feel both surprised and proud. Today it was announced that the $5.3 billion Western Sydney Airport will officially become the Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton)...
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Personal Resilience – Distractions Kill
Painting by Coplu (Coplu.com) This is a challenging video.. WHY you must not text and drive This post is hosted at the FLY! web site. When you are at the FLY! web site, please select the “Follow”...
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FINALLY- FLY! IS AIRBORNE
I am pleased to announce that my next book called FLY! – Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 is available NOW in Australian book shops, just in time for Fathers’ Day. Purchase autographed paper...
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Technical – ATSB Report –“QF32 – The story behind the story”
My book “QF32” was published in July 2012, about one year before the ATSB published its report into QF32. Because of this mismatch in time, I was not permitted to publish information discovered by...
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A380s, “Sweet Spots” and Storm Petrels (ver 42, Feb 2017)
It’s crowded out there! Flying west descending through 20,000 feet over the English Channel – 22 September 2014 (Photo RDC) The A380 is a passenger magnet! Update February 2017 Twin engined aircraft...
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year! (Thanks to my dear friend Coplu for the rights to display his beautiful art (Coplu.Com)) My last day of 2016 ended with a twenty four hour long tour of duty flying from Melbourne to...
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Decision Making (…..& ptsd)
Below find a link to the High Stakes video, a one hour SBS Insight program in which I join many people discussing how people make high-stakes decisions in the face of life and death. Decision Making is...
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Buzz Aldrin in Australia
Buzz Aldrin visited Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra in November as the guest of “National Geographic Live”. Mars is no longer Science fiction.… it’s now science fact (Ron Howard) Jason Crusan, Dr...
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Review “Sully” Movie
Summary “Sully” is a story of personal and team resilience. Sully made a difference for his passengers, crew, company and their friends. The real Sully Sullenberger and Jeff Skiles are larger in life...
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Vale one of the world’s greatest pilots
With a sad and heavy heart I learned that aviator and test pilot Captain Eric Melrose ‘Winkle’ Brown CBE DSC AFC HonFRAeS Royal Navy died on 21 February 2016. Eric Melrose Winkle Brown (21 January 1919...
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RAeS & ICAO –“Nancy-Bird Walton Lecture”
Side by Side: Two “birds in a gilded cage” (by Coplu, coplu.com) I am honoured to present the inaugural Nancy-Bird Walton Lecture on behalf of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) at the...
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays / Happy Days where ever you are … Merry Christmas from the QF9 crew Dubai-London 24 Dec 2015 Enjoy these two photos taken from my office. Here is a photos from the...
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5th Anniversary – QF32
Today, 4th November 2015 marks the 5th Anniversary of the QF32 event. Journey to the future (Painting by Coplu http://Coplu.com) Good News Photo: Carolyn Jones QF32 is a story of team excellence, where...
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