Greetings fellow AvGeeks. What a chaotic week that was! Clearly inspired by the Christmas Star Wars spinoff we have machines, drunks and animals all running amok! It’s a good job we finish in Dubai for a timely reminder of the beauty of flying! Flight Simulator Sets Fire to Airport theregister.co.uk Oh dear! This sim got a … Continue reading “AvGeek Weekly – Rogue Ones”
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AvGeek Weekly – Happy New Year
Time for us to land our final AvGeek of the year – and as usual we bring a mixture of the weird, brilliant, crazy and sometimes even terrible world of aviation. Time for us to relax and head off to the “ballet” now. Happy New Year! 2016 was the Second Safest Year in Aviation History … Continue reading “AvGeek Weekly – Happy New Year”
AvGeek Weekly – Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas Happy Holidays fellow AvGeeks. This week we start and finish our weekly roundup with some cool Santa stories. Ho ho ho Santa’s New Ride? The big fella has been getting some ideas from Amazon it seems! Pilot ‘congratulates passengers’ for drinking all of the alcohol on board telegraph.co.uk AvGeek respect to the Raider … Continue reading “AvGeek Weekly – Happy Holidays”
Track Santa’s Sleigh With Plane Finder’s Flight Tracker
About Santa’s Sleigh Every year come the December 24th, Father Christmas, Santa or Good Old St. Nick – however, you refer to him, has 32 hours to travel over 510,000,000 km, visiting over 91.8 million homes to get presents to over 400 million children. This, of course, varies yearly, depending on whose been good of course! … Continue reading “Track Santa’s Sleigh With Plane Finder’s Flight Tracker”
How To Track an Emirates Airline Flight Status
About Emirates Airline Established in 1983, Emirates Airline today is the Middle East’s largest airline. Based in Dubai, the airline operates over 3600 flights per week to more than 154 cities, in 80 different countries and across all six continents. In terms of international passengers carried, Emirates Airline is the world’s fourth-largest airline. But, when … Continue reading “How To Track an Emirates Airline Flight Status”
AvGeek Weekly – 🚲The Grand Tour🚲
This week we get off the plane and take our bicycles for a Grand Tour around the world – including a pedal power tour of the jungle and a productive bike ride in Brisbane! We’re excitedly looking forward to catching up with Santa next weekend too as we find out about his cunning use of … Continue reading “AvGeek Weekly – 🚲The Grand Tour🚲”
AvGeek Weekly – Pigs Might Fly 🐷
Happy Friday AvGeeks. In this edition, we bring you a bumper three stories on the US presidential runaround that has been making the news all week. We also find out what happens when we blindfold a pilot, learn all about aviation weather and find out what United are doing to relieve the stress of the overhead … Continue reading “AvGeek Weekly – Pigs Might Fly 🐷”
AvGeek Weekly – Why?
Welcome to another AvGeek Roundup. We start our roundup with the shocking aviation disaster in Colombia – a crash that poses a lot of questions about decisions made. This week we also question the sanity of one passenger who couldn’t wait to leave her plane, learn some heli-science and get some answers about the toll … Continue reading “AvGeek Weekly – Why?”
AvGeek Weekly – Thanksgiving Hangover
We hope you enjoyed all that turkey and had safe travels! We sure did – maybe a little too much as we land this edition a little behind schedule! Turkey’s Dream of Becoming the Epicentre of Global Aviation Looks Shaky economist.com Such a shame, it would be good to have an alternative to the new major … Continue reading “AvGeek Weekly – Thanksgiving Hangover”
The All New Planefinder.net
Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of a brand new version of Plane Finder for the web. It’s packed full of exciting new features, sports an improved user interface, better support for mobile devices, and comes with a huge number of performance improvements! Extended ADS-B Data Thanks to recent improvements to our ADS-B Client, … Continue reading “The All New Planefinder.net”