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Ferry Flight 1: Switzerland to Crete

Posted on August 24, 2012 by simonhackett

Its been a successful day. First time at the controls – and it was a great flight.

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Posted in aviation, ferry-flight, travel | Tagged aviation, travel

Ready to leave Switzerland

Posted on August 23, 2012 by simonhackett

Well, we’re ready to leave.

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Posted in aviation, ferry-flight, travel | Tagged aviation, travel

How to tell that you are in Switzerland

Posted on August 23, 2012 by simonhackett

For an Australian, there are a number of differences that one notices when spending time here in Switzerland.

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Posted in travel | Tagged lego city, swiss cow, transportation, travel, turboprop aircraft

Lucerne Travelogue

Posted on August 22, 2012 by simonhackett

A few days ago we spent an afternoon/evening in Lucerne, not far away from Stans.

Here are some photos that I took while we were there. It is a city with a deep and rich history.

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Posted in travel | Tagged lucerne, switzerland, travel

First Flight in VH-TCP

Posted on August 22, 2012 by simonhackett

Today was my first flight in my new PC-12 🙂

For reasons related mostly to insurance coverage before the ferry flight, I was ‘riding shotgun’ on this flight, watching from just behind Pete and Jan (a Pilatus factory/test pilot).

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Posted in aviation, ferry-flight | Tagged aviation

PC-12 Factory Perspectives

Gallery

Posted on August 22, 2012 by simonhackett

This gallery contains 7 photos.

Some images from and around the main Pilatus hangar…

Posted in aviation, travel | Tagged pilatus, travel

First Look at VH-TCP

Posted on August 20, 2012 by simonhackett

This morning was time for the pleasant experience of my first look at my new plane.

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Posted in aviation, ferry-flight | Tagged aviation, travel

The Swiss Chocolate Dilemma

Posted on August 20, 2012 by simonhackett

Monday morning at the Pilatus factory, and time for a first world problem.

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Switzerland Arrival

Posted on August 20, 2012 by simonhackett

We got to Stans, in Switzerland today (Sunday 19th August), a process that took around 30 hours from when we started in Adelaide.

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Posted in aviation, ferry-flight, travel | Tagged aviation, travel

(NOT) Using flightaware.com to follow progress

Posted on August 18, 2012 by simonhackett

Update to the below – it looks like flightaware does not track private flights in the European region. I had hoped it’d work, because it does work for private IFR flights in Australian just fine. It’ll start working when we are back near Australia again.

Oh well!

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Posted in aviation, ferry-flight | Tagged aviation

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