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Some images from and around the main Pilatus hangar…
First Look at VH-TCP
This morning was time for the pleasant experience of my first look at my new plane.
The Swiss Chocolate Dilemma
Monday morning at the Pilatus factory, and time for a first world problem.
Switzerland Arrival
We got to Stans, in Switzerland today (Sunday 19th August), a process that took around 30 hours from when we started in Adelaide.
(NOT) Using flightaware.com to follow progress
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!
Planning to bring a PC-12NG home from Europe
Here’s the mission…bring a new plane home from Europe!
Essentials for a ferry flight
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Some important items to bring on an international ferry flight… an AV HD aviation video camera; CASA Pilots License; ASIC; Power adaptors/chargers…
… and of course, a NodePony or two.
Learning to fly a PC-12
I’m a pilot. I really, really love flying.
I started out in gliders in the mid 1980’s, and I’ve been flying them ever since. There are many stories in there, but this isn’t about them.
I bought a Cirrus SR22 GTS Turbo in 2009, and had a ball gaining a PPL(A) and flying that aircraft too. But this isn’t about that aircraft either.
Rather, its about an aircraft that has been pretty much #1 on my bucket list of ‘planes I would love to own one day’, for many years now.
The Pilatus PC-12.
Hello world!
I’m returning to writing a blog for the first time in a while.
Likely themes for blog posts include:
- Broadband issues
- Aviation stuff that I’m up to
- Electric cars and related topics
Simon Hackett 
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