Qantas flight attendant opportunities

Interested in becoming a flight attendant for Qantas? There are opportunities with Qantas Cabin Crew (UK) Limited who operate onboard Qantas flights from London Heathrow to Asia, the Far East, and Europe.

Besides the qualities you'd expect from a good flight attendant, you must be 18 or older, 163 - 183 cm in height, educated to GCSE or equivalent, medically fit, and hold an unrestricted right to live and work in the UK.

See the Qantas Cabin Crew UK Home Page for more information and an application.

Purchasing, selling, and owning general aviation aircraft

If you have even the slightest interest in purchasing, selling, or owning general aviation aircraft, you'll want to watch for a first-ever event the week of February 3, 2008.

That week, four popular aviation podcasts will conduct an online “formation flight” with each covering a different aspect of purchasing, selling, and owning general aviation aircraft.

[General Aviation (or GA) means private and commercial aviation other than the military and scheduled airlines.]

If you're not familiar with podcasts, think of them simply as audio files you listen to when you want to, using your computer or other device connected to the Internet.

The four podcasts and their content for the event are as follows:

Airspeed will cover the legal aspects of purchases, sales, leases, and fractional interests, as well as the tax aspects of owning all or a part of an aircraft. Airspeed is an aviation and aerospace features show hosted by Michigan-based pilot and technology and aviation lawyer Steve Tupper (known to many by his radio alter ego of “Stephen Force”). www.airspeedonline.com.

The Finer Points will cover the flight training necessary and helpful to become familiar with a new aircraft. This is especially important in that many pilots who purchase (or buy into) different aircraft are moving up to new levels of complexity and performance and safety, efficiency (and insurance!) all depend upon adequate training. The Finer Points features California-based flight instructor and new media producer Jason Miller. www.thefinerpoints.net.

The Pilot’s Flight PodLog will cover the host’s recent experiences in buying into an airplane and his co-owner will join in the discussion. The Pilot’s Flight PodLog is a “hangar-flying” show that features one-on-one conversations with host and west-coast pilot Will Hawkins. http://web.mac.com/pilotwill/Site/Home.html.

Uncontrolled Airspace’s panelists have a wide variety of ownership experiences among them and the panelists and a guest will cover both personal experiences and lessons learned from the experiences of others. Uncontrolled Airspace has a “hangar-flying” format and is hosted by pilot, freelance writer, and new media producer Jack Hodgson, aviation photographer, senior editor of Kit Planes magazine and US editor of London’s World Aircraft Sales magazine Dave Higdon, and editor-in-chief of Aviation Safety magazine and contributing editor of AvWeb Biz Jeb Burnside. www.uncontrolledairspace.com.

You can find these four podcasts and many other aviation-related podcasts at the Thirty Thousand Feet Aviation Podcast Program Guide. If you haven't listened to podcasts yet, I'd encourage you to give this new media some attention. It's quite easy and the aviation community has embraced it very effectively. There's a lot of good information out there on a wide variety of topics, available from experts, and at no cost to you. It's quite literally just a few mouse clicks away.