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Air Vanuatu......Gone?

Last post by bob2s « Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:04 am
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by EA01 » Mon May 13, 2024 12:28 pm

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Seems like it!,.....Mrs Vfliegs & I have flights booked with them to Port Vila in August for our 25th wedding aniversary...

Just checked the travel...

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My memories of Vanuatu go back to 1968 when it was a condominium of the British and French who had joint sovereignty and, a strange way
of living...

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Last post by bob2s
Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:04 am
The Cook Islands

Last post by EA01 « Thu Aug 29, 2024 11:25 am
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by EA01 » Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:09 pm

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Jnr Fliegs gets married next month, and after that We'll be heading back out into the Pacific again.......Cook islands this time...anyone been...

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Forget the Cook Islands, Vanuatu beats it hands down!!, by a long way!!!

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Last post by EA01
Thu Aug 29, 2024 11:25 am
Say It Ain't So...Drop Bears Reportedly Don't Exist

Last post by Hydromet « Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:42 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jul 30, 2024 2:50 am

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Drop bears: The true history of a fake Australian animal

CNN
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Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close...

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D2 and a friend were hiking in Tasmania and two young south American guys who thought they were God's gift to women tried to attach themselves. When...

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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:42 am
Does Karearea Have a New Feather For Her Hat?

Last post by EA01 « Thu May 30, 2024 5:48 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Tue May 21, 2024 7:58 pm

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World’s most expensive feather sells at New Zealand auction

A feather from a long-extinct New Zealand bird has set a record after selling for...

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Very Interessting Indeed Karearea!

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Last post by EA01
Thu May 30, 2024 5:48 am
Pinky Not holding Up His End?

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:19 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:38 pm

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Australian farmers rip out millions of vines amid wine glut

Peter Hobson/Reuters
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Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and...

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Further to my earlier post re a grape oversupply; A large Winery Group with a huge premises just 'up the road' (massive expansion of facilities only...

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:19 am
Japan earthquake.

Last post by Boac « Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:28 pm
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by Boac » Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:25 am

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What an awful start to 2024 for these folk. The last big one in 2011 produced 40m high waves and trashed the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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Tsunami warning downgraded at present.

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Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:28 pm
Standard of English as it is in NZ

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
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by prospector » Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:36 am

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Was not aware we had this Department

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Dear Puzzled,
This was the original headline in the article:
Department of Conversation investigating after dolphin found beheaded on South Auckland...

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
Careful, They'll be After Your Farts Next

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm

by PHXPhlyer » Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm

New Zealand to price sheep and cow burps to cut greenhouse gases
The proposal would make New Zealand, a large agricultural exporter, the first...

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm
This will have China really worried!!!

Last post by bob2s « Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
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by prospector » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:20 am

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New Zealand must send strong signal to Pacific over China - Defence Minister Peeni Henare

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This Prme Minister has let the lure of Chinese money into his or other pockets blind him to response he will receive from the indigenous people in...

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Last post by bob2s
Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
False passports, but not a problem for these folk

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am
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by prospector » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:58 am

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:-\

A man who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka has been granted refugee status in...

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Sounds like a bunch of savages.

When I was there in 1973 a newspaper report included ran amok with a machete of a Maori on the funicular railway...

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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am
Never let it be said we do not learn from others mistakes

Last post by prospector « Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm

by prospector » Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm

... aign=Email

Among Europe’s dirtiest: ‘Green’ biomass power plant in Yorkshire burning ‘renewable’ wood emits MORE CO2 than UK’s coal – report...

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Last post by prospector
Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm
Suprise revelations on Bob Hawke activities

Last post by prospector « Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am

by prospector » Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am

‘People’s PM’ Bob Hawke’s slavish service to US intelligence shows Australia has never been independent, let alone a democracy

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Last post by prospector
Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am
The disease of BLM or is it wokeness, reaches our fair shores.

Last post by ExSp33db1rd « Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:59 pm
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by prospector » Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:07 am

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Obviously not all their customers have perused the sign on the left of the photo

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I agree, can't even pronounce Aotowotsit, never mind spell it. I wouldn't dream of being disrespectful or criitical of Maori, let them carry on doing...

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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:59 pm
Well, we keep letting them in...

Last post by EA01 « Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:11 am

by EA01 » Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:11 am

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Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:11 am
First Australian?

Last post by ian16th « Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:48 pm
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by Woody » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:02 am

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Last post by ian16th
Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:48 pm
ETOP's and things

Last post by Undried Plum « Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:43 pm
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by ian16th » Sun Mar 03, 2019 1:39 pm
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An article written by an ignorant journo, about the possibilities of future long flights from Cape Town to the Australian east coast.

This journo...

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Please Sir, me Sir!

Gimme the nav data and I'll crunch the numbers for you. Geodesy is an advanced subset of navigation and used to be a major part...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:43 pm
Storm

Last post by Cooda « Wed May 27, 2020 11:33 pm
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by Woody » Sun May 24, 2020 8:45 am

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Hopefully none of our members or their families are going to be badly affected.

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Only in those parts of the world where countries can be described as cute or quaint . :p

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Last post by Cooda
Wed May 27, 2020 11:33 pm
What seeds are being sown today?

Last post by Flintstone « Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:29 am
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by ian16th » Sun Mar 03, 2019 12:15 pm

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My grandson, newly recruited to the Australian Air Force Cadets, has attended his 1st proper Air Show today.

I am awaiting the reaction.

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I've never forgiven the RAAF for getting rid of the the Aardvark. I used to love watching those at Tindal.

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Last post by Flintstone
Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:29 am
Who is this mob?

Last post by reddo « Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:23 pm
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by Slasher » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:02 am

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The idea looks good on paper but I get the feeling it won't work.

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It's a very tough market. Many people are tied to their FF points and perks. Also, they'll have corporate accounts with the airlines too.
The US has...

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Last post by reddo
Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:23 pm
The last gallon

Last post by Slasher « Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:24 pm
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by ian16th » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:44 am

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Qantas direct flights Oz - UK

A question of payload costs.

When these ultra-long distance flights happen, just how many units, be they...

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It annoys me somewhat that if my hold bag is 1kg over the allowed weight, I am expected to pay extra, which ignores the fact that I weigh less than...

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Last post by Slasher
Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:24 pm
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Last post by Sisemen « Mon May 14, 2018 11:25 am
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by Sisemen » Mon May 14, 2018 2:46 am

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On Sunday the memsahb and I start a journey which ends up in Cairns; Perth-Adelaide by plane and thence by rail via Melbourne, Sydney and Brizzy....

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Muchos gracias. The Skyrail and Kuranda are on my agenda as is Green Island. Will check out the other spots. If you see me advertising on the Lonely...

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Last post by Sisemen
Mon May 14, 2018 11:25 am
The Angel Flight accident near Mount Gambier

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:24 pm

by Pinky the pilot » Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:24 pm

I note with more than a little distaste and sadness that the thread on TOP on this subject now runs to 7 pages and over 130 posts.

And what is now...

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:24 pm
Rossair prang

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:27 am
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by Slasher » Thu Jun 01, 2017 4:00 pm

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Rossair Conquest went in after T/O at Renmark on 30th.

3 blokes killed including chief pilot.

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There is a thread running re this accident on TOP and someone posted a photo of the wreckage site, taken I assume from a Media Helicopter.

All the...

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:27 am
Brizzy this evening

Last post by Fliegenmong « Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:00 pm
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by Sisemen » Thu Aug 11, 2016 1:35 pm

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Well done the QANTAS captain that did the approach through this lot on QF 569 Perth-Brisbane this evening. Shortly after we penetrated this the...

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However Kai Tak with a typhoon moving in could be even bloody hairier at times.

Ha ha...yeah....remember that!!

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Last post by Fliegenmong
Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:00 pm
Hello...

Last post by ExSp33db1rd « Wed Nov 02, 2016 7:20 am
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by Avtrician » Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:35 am

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I'm sorry, nobody is here to take your call at the moment.

Please leave a message at the beep and we will get back to when the pub shuts..........

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Only just looked at this thread .... one trick here in NZ when calling the national Telecom provider, is to just keep rattling the zero key about 10...

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Wed Nov 02, 2016 7:20 am

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