Ansett. What are you doing 6 years on
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Hey Buster heard on the grapevine your beloved Bombers had a win against the Freo Fokkers (or should that be Frockers)on the week end. Hope you make the eight, we'll be waiting for you !!!
HOT PIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOT PIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good selection up here at EK. Some of the guys who spent years frustrated in the RHS at AN are now 777 ans A330/340 Training Captains. Many still arriving after taking various routes OS and a good few migrating after having a gut-full at VB, QF and J*.
Ex-AN pilots have done well post 2001, but the ones that have done best have been those able to put it behind them and adapt to new ways of doing things.
AN was full of great people and was a cushy job, but, let's face it, it was never a well run business.
I've since worked for Europes biggest Lo-Co, and now work for probably the most profitable Airline on earth. It opens your eyes to the realities of the industry some what!!
AN was a great chapter in my life, and the collapse was a tragedy, but the ride since has been, to say the least, interesting!!
Ex-AN pilots have done well post 2001, but the ones that have done best have been those able to put it behind them and adapt to new ways of doing things.
AN was full of great people and was a cushy job, but, let's face it, it was never a well run business.
I've since worked for Europes biggest Lo-Co, and now work for probably the most profitable Airline on earth. It opens your eyes to the realities of the industry some what!!
AN was a great chapter in my life, and the collapse was a tragedy, but the ride since has been, to say the least, interesting!!
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My favourite memories of Ansett: sitting in my room in the southern fringes of Brisbane of a night studying through high school, listening to the scanner and waiting for the unmistakable sound of the 727 flight (to Mel?) overflying late in the evening. That was also in the days when everyone had the sense to use acft regos and I had them all figured out with a mental dictionary of callsigns and types...! 
Ahhh, aircraft noise at its best! The F28s were also nice to listen to... As Yoda would say, "the good old days, gone they are!" 
Ahhh, aircraft noise at its best! The F28s were also nice to listen to... As Yoda would say, "the good old days, gone they are!"
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Long off the dogwhistle by 89 but didn't they all get retired much earlier .. I think that we only had the 727 freighter ... as I recall the Goose had gone as well ? ... plenty of F50s about, though, at the time.
Dreadful how the memory turns to jelly ...
Dreadful how the memory turns to jelly ...
Hey Pyro! I got one of those - are they worth anything to memorabilia collectors?
Its now about as useful as the Golden Wings subscription I paid a couple of weeks before the collapse and the 50,000+ Frequent Flyer points that went down the drain with it.
Dr
(Dives for the nearest foxhole)
Its now about as useful as the Golden Wings subscription I paid a couple of weeks before the collapse and the 50,000+ Frequent Flyer points that went down the drain with it.
Dr
(Dives for the nearest foxhole)
you could see what Flarose will give you for it...
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VH-WAN
John_T
Quick Google trawl- the rego was for Western Australian News/Newspapers??.
Ex: aussieairliners.net
Quick Google trawl- the rego was for Western Australian News/Newspapers??.
Ex: aussieairliners.net
VH-FNQ. Fokker F.27-4108. c/n 10315.
was also registered as: VH-WAN.
First flown as PH-FKK - December 3, 1966
Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FNQ - December 16, 1966
Delivered new to Ansett-A.N.A. at Melbourne - December 24, 1966
Entered service with Ansett-ANA - December 1966
Operated some Ansett Airlines of South Australia services - July 1973
Operated joint services with Ansett Airlines of Northern Australia - April 29, 1981 to August 1, 1982
First F.27 to be painted in the new Ansett 'Southern Cross' colors - September 1982
Operated its final Ansett service - Mackay-Hamilton Island-Cairns - July 26, 1989
Ferried Cairns-Melbourne for storage - 47,950 hours - August 21, 1989
Leased to Safe Air, New Zealand - December 6, 1989 to May 20, 1990
Departed Melbourne on delivery flight - December 6, 1989
Sold to Rex Aviation / Ansett N.Z. - November 7, 1990
Departed Melbourne on delivery flight - November 7, 1990
Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - November 12, 1990
Registered to Rex Aviation as ZK-RTA - November 12, 1990
Returned to Ansett Australia at Melbourne - March 31, 1996
Leased to Independent Air Freighters - April 1, 1996
Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-WAN - May 22, 1996.
In storage at Tamworth (owned by the Ansett Administrators) - 2005
Leased to Safe Air, New Zealand - December 6, 1989 to May 20, 1990
Departed Melbourne on delivery flight - December 6, 1989
Sold to Rex Aviation / Ansett N.Z. - November 7, 1990
Departed Melbourne on delivery flight - November 7, 1990
Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - November 12, 1990
Registered to Rex Aviation as ZK-RTA - November 12, 1990
Returned to Ansett Australia at Melbourne - March 31, 1996
Leased to Independent Air Freighters - April 1, 1996
Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-WAN - May 22, 1996.
In storage at Tamworth (owned by the Ansett Administrators) - 2005
Silly Old Git
Operated its final Ansett service - Mackay-Hamilton Island-Cairns - July 26, 1989
The going north crew would pax to Mackay and relieve returning BNE crew who were well and truly shagged after two days off in CNS
Thank you
The going north crew would pax to Mackay and relieve returning BNE crew who were well and truly shagged after two days off in CNS
Thank you
Yes Tinpis, I well remember the Christmas cake in the tin we got as a reward for a very productive year for Ansett. In the same year, Cathay Pacific crew got 2.8 months profit share plus their regular '13th month' (on A Scales of course).
My daughter used the tin for her coloured pencils before I left for Hong Kong.
My daughter used the tin for her coloured pencils before I left for Hong Kong.
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For the nostalgic types the Ansett name and logo still lives at Garden Drive at the sim centre. It's always a step back in time as the rooms are still the same with the same CRM posters on the wall. I still get a laugh at the poster that had "All Ansett pilots need: good CRM skills etc etc " and someone had pencilled in one more attribute- a job! My road post Ansett has been like a Holden testing ground! I have managed to tick all the boxes of things I said I would never have to do when I was sitting comfortably in the RHS of a 737. Of course the only box I really wanted to tick was the final check to line for Command. As that opportunity is shortly about to come my way this thread will be a good moment to say farewell to permFO. If I get the tick it will be irrelevant and if I don't then I'll look for something else to do. Adios amigos!
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the rego was for Western Australian News/Newspapers??.
regos chop and change .. unless things have changed with CASA the only real restriction is that a rego doesn't go to the same Type as previously feathered.
FNQ brings back a few fond memories ... of Track Trips and alleged naughty goings-on in Darwin and the Alice ... must have involved someone else .. we were always good Christian folk on my trips ... some of the time, at least ...
regos chop and change .. unless things have changed with CASA the only real restriction is that a rego doesn't go to the same Type as previously feathered.
FNQ brings back a few fond memories ... of Track Trips and alleged naughty goings-on in Darwin and the Alice ... must have involved someone else .. we were always good Christian folk on my trips ... some of the time, at least ...
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John Tullamarine
Did I really post that story about the 2 circuit conversions to a Comet 2C preceding full bore flight testing? or are you confusing it with the latest Newsletter for the Flight Test Society of OZ.
Where did the Ansett opo Gerry Backhouse go? His son should now be a skipper someplace.
Did I really post that story about the 2 circuit conversions to a Comet 2C preceding full bore flight testing? or are you confusing it with the latest Newsletter for the Flight Test Society of OZ.
Where did the Ansett opo Gerry Backhouse go? His son should now be a skipper someplace.
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Milt .. FTSA newletter .... loved the yarn ... you guys must have been a tad busy working out where all the switches and knobs were for the first circuit or two. Reminds me of my first single seat endorsement (on the Callair at RIC) .. the ASI was on top of the dash for some reason and I couldn't find it until I was three parts the way downwind ... saved by wind in the wires on that occasion ... probably the 300-400 ft cloudbase was a distraction on the day ... but we needed to get it done so I could go towing the next day ... two circuits on the Friday and the rest of the handling stuff on the first few descents on the Saturday ... guess one wouldn't be able to do that sort of thing these days ... ?