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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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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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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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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”...
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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Intrepid and Resilient
Click here to see my posting about Apollo 11 on the FLY! website
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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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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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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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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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