Steve and Grant have finally finished running around to various events in Australia (for now 🙂) and have (finally!) put together a “real” Australia Desk. They discuss their experiences at the AusFly event in Narromine then quickly review a few headlines:

• Qantas made a profit???
• An alliance between Air New Zealand & Virgin Australia???
• Elvis isn't coming back to Australia??? (the Skycrane, not the dead singer)
• Army's CH-47 Chinooks have returned to Australia from the Middle East
• Qantas did a screening of the Planes movie during a flight
• First flight of Jetstar's first 787

The boys then discuss a recent AirProx between two Qantas A330s.

• Qantas A330s in loss of separation incident
• Qantas planes’ mid-air near-miss investigated

All that plus a shout-out to Aunt Benet’s piloting skills and news that Grant’s appearing in the latest Australian Pilot magazine from AOPA as Kathy Mexted has written an article about flying in a balloon with Grant and Kreisha Ballantyne (the editor) has allowed it to be printed. Who knew?