Category Archives: Australia Desk

Episode 304: Alex Fisher is Flying Around Australia

Posted on June 25, 2014 by admin

This week the boys are back and they’re chatting with Alex Fisher, a 17 year old who is currently flying solo around Australia to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and become the youngest person to circumnavigate Australia … Continue reading →

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Episode 302: Airspace, Negotiations and Regulations (plus an F35 or two)

Posted on June 11, 2014 by admin

Grant’s sulking because Max forgot his name last week* and it takes all Steve’s producer skills (and a few beers) to get him back into the groove. Once that’s achieved, it’s on with the show: CASA acknowledges that the new … Continue reading →

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Episode 300: Back to Qantas and the F35

Posted on May 21, 2014 by admin

Congratulations all round for the Airplane Geeks team as they’ve hit 300 episodes and “Woo hoo” to us too as we’ve been along for a big chunk of the ride too. Of course, given all the re-takes we’ve done and … Continue reading →

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Episode 299: A Cirrus CAPS deployment gets Grant on the Radio

Posted on May 14, 2014 by admin

The boys are back & recovered from working at Wings Over Illawarra 2014 last week and they’re reporting on the Australian Federal Government’s recent approval to purchase an additional 58 F35s, taking our total confirmed purchase to 72 aircraft. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

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Episode 297: Badgerys Creek is Back

Posted on April 30, 2014 by admin

The boys are back in the studio and wishing they could be back flying again like they were for last week’s AusDesk. Meanwhile, they missed out on a bit of important news from last week: The Federal Government have announced … Continue reading →

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Episode 296: Intercom Chats

Posted on April 23, 2014 by admin

Just for a bit of a change of style, Steve & ATC Ben recorded most of this Australia Desk segment while flying a Cirrus SR20 from Essendon Airport (YMEN) in Melbourne to Temora (YTEM) on a day trip to the … Continue reading →

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Episode 295: Rail to the Chief

Posted on April 16, 2014 by admin

The boys are staying in their home state of Victoria this week, leading off with a story about Hainan Airlines’ parent company HNA Group signing an MOU with Avalon Airport owners LinFox to spend 18 months expanding Avalon in readiness … Continue reading →

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Episode 294: Droning on 787s

Posted on April 9, 2014 by admin

Grant’s back on deck (mostly) after an intense couple of weeks dealing with health issues and a CASA audit. He joins Steve to review the following news items: We’ve got more 787s coming to Melbourne: Royal Brunei have started flying … Continue reading →

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Episode 293: Andrew helps with MH370 & RAAF news

Posted on April 2, 2014 by admin

Once again Grant is unavailable due to illness so Steve is joined by award winning aviation journalist and Principle at Communications Intelligence, an independent aviation and defence consultancy, Andrew McLaughlin. With the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 continuing … Continue reading →

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Episode 292: Aircraft flocking to Perth for MH370 Search

Posted on March 26, 2014 by admin

Grant’s out sick but Steve gets Jonesy in to help out and it’s a good thing too ‘cos he’s in Perth, Western Australia and that seems to be where almost everyone with a long range maritime surveillance aircraft is too. … Continue reading →

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