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I'm thinking of splitting the page. Separate CX stuff from the computer stuff; what do you think?
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last updated: 13:38 30 June 2008

Any of you guys using Apple OS X spare me a couple of minutes so I can update the script files?

 

Jane's now a NASM qualified Personal Trainer so if you want to get back in shape...

Astronomy

Astronomy Software for PDAs  Palm OS  MS Pocket PC 

Astronomy Software for PCs  Stellarium  Red Shift

 Astronomy  How to read Two Line Elements

August 2008 China Eclipse - you'll need Google Earth

Aviation

Please remember that I - and others - created these files to help my/our understanding of CX procedures: if they work for you, that's great.  Feel free to mess with them ad nauseam.  Pass them on as you wish.  But please respect their authorship. Please also read the CX disclaimer at Vol 1 2-1-6 para 13. If you do not want the file to open inside the web browser, for MS IE users, right click on the hyperlink then select "Save Target As.." - for Mac OS users, hold Ctrl and clicking the link simultaneously, choose "Download File to Disk" and save the image to your hard drive.

If any of these files seem a bit out of date e-mail me: cx@andytracy.net

A330 regional diversions

A340 global diversions

A page of aerodynamics links

Adam Graham's comprehensive guide: Airbus Overhead Panel PBs

Adverse Weather Walk-through

Aero info

Airbus: Getting to grips with the MEL

Airbus Tech Quiz

Ali Hassani's maps website

AML - if no inbound Commander's signature

Aquaplaning - just in case they ask that "9 root p" question

AvSoft

Blind passengers - odd question in PCA. Vol 5 Safety/Emerg Proc Manual 1-7-1 says you can carry blind pax (accompanied by a dog), not sitting by an emerg exit as long as they can establish communications with the cabin crew.

Blog - just getting started

CAP 413 - the RT manual

Checking a CX manual loadsheet

Chip's Place website

Chris Parker's website

Controlled Rest

Compendium of Line Ops Hot Poop

CX ETOPS visual guide

CX Weather Radar Manual

CX provide some neat route structures here:
All Fleets: Home > Pre-Flight > Route Briefing > Route Files for use with Google Earth
but it contains no ERAs so get Matt's guide.

Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File - you'll need Google Earth

DAFIF - more info

EGPWS - Airbus, explanation of lowest altitude value

Felix Steger's website

Flight Log Book for kids

Fuel load change for RTOW change

Gerd Puppel's website

Getting back from JFK

High Altitude Radiation isn't good for you

Jack Frost's flow charts:  ECAM Handling  Fuel Req'd Inflight  My revision to Jack's Weather Minima

Jack Frost's Guide to getting your Command

Jack Frost's: Airbus Descent Monitoring
Pre-flight Workflow
Fuel Policy Graphs
Speed Tape on Descent and Arrival
Fuel (CFP & FMGS)
PF TOPC
PM TOPC
Practical use of the MEL

Managing the descent see also FCTM Ch 10

Matt Baker's Airport's Guide - you'll need Google Earth

My CX Vol 1 and Vol 2 Pt 2 integrated index - Rev 92/417 Word Excel

PA - perfect demo for Beginners

Pete Lees' Guides to Fuel Policy 1  2

Pocket FMS

Polar Grid Nav

PWS - more than you ever needed to know

QF A330 Jam

Rant - 5 amendments later........

Rob Dicker's maps website

Red Triangle training packages

Rounding decimal places

SmartCockpit A330 A340 B744 B777 Ops

Sunrise

Theory for Best Range Speed

The rest of my Airbus technical notes

Theory for optimum altitude for maximum TAS

Vol 2 Pt 2 3-1-17 para 9 Ramp/Lndg fuel corrections in English!!

Weather/Currency/Conversion? Worldmate
New free version available!

Wing Files - agh, it's gone, tell me if it reappears.

Alex learns to enjoy the smog in PEK. 

Look up an ICAO or IATA identifier:

Computing

68 HK's place in the Quality of Living ranking

Broadband - test for speed

Browser - check out how well your browser is working

CoolWebSearch - the worst of malware spies

Download the internet

DRM: A pet hate! See below
Various solutions DVD Regional Coding and CSS  Safe Disc 4  IsoBuster  Easy CD-DA Extractor

Extremetech SystemCheck

File Converter's Paradise

Finessing XP's settings  TweakVI for Vista

Free firewalls  Comodo  Jetico  Online-Armor  ZoneAlarm  Advice  Testing

GriSoft AVG for free

Hard disk data recovery

Help stop spammers before they even get your address

Inhibit Windows Vista SP1 or XP SP3

Ipswitch WS FTP Pro - used to upload this website

Java

Konvertor - pretty much anything to anything

Mac lookalike - want your Windows XP PC to have a Mac-like taskbar?

Microsoft Genuine Advantage Tool - remove it

Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP

Microsoft Windows Defender

Norton - remove all their awful software

Odd things going on? Get HiJackThis Analysis it here

Old versions of software - because newer is not always better

Office 2003/XP - remove hidden data

Panda's free Anti Rootkit

Panorama 32 changes the desktop image for you

PC - Check out how well your PC is running

PDF - convert any file on-line

Satellite Imagery Applications: Google Earth  NASA WorldWind  FlashEarth

Scanner and Camera Wizard

Scot Finnie's PC Blog

Sharing folders/files in Vista - a true nightmare

Shields Up - how safe is your PC

Slow boots and low resources - clean all the junk out

SpyBot 1.4 spyware killer

Spyware - it's telling tales on you

Start-Up items identification: Pacman's Portal AnswersThatWork

Sysinternals

SysInternals Rootkit Revealer

System Info for Windows

The Elder Geek on Windows

Time server addresses

Trend Micro on-line check

USA changes DST start to 11 March

Windows XP A-Z

Windows XP PowerToys  TweakVI for Vista

 

Google Earth

(Almost) all airborne flights

Avian flu? The end of the world is nigh

Day and Night

Get it!

ISS and Hubble

ISS and Hubble again

NASA Blue Marble overlay for Google Earth

NASA environmental overlays for Google Earth

NASA JPL onearth

More wacky stuff for Google Earth than you can imagine

Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-D

Traffic into major US airports

v4.2 or higher has a hidden Flight Sim mode: Ctrl+Alt+A to enter Sim mode - HUD - Keyboard controls - Aircraft carrier model off NY

Adds HKG to airport list
In Windows, save this file to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth\res\flightsim

World Weather

Other stuff

A lot of strange humour

GCSE - kids doing these exams? Here's a crib of most common formulae

Sheffied Wines

How to solve Rubik's Cube

Moral Sense Test

Find some new music

Petrol expensive? No way

Sudoku too hard today; maybe these techniques can help?

Why DRM is bad for us all  Video  What's wrong with iTunes


Flying Kukris  Simply Fitness Gym at HLY

While I agree that we need to do something about the air quality, personally I do not think wind power is an answer. With wind power capacity factors only up to 45% with the need for spinning reserves, electricity costs 7.2p/kWh compared with 2.2 for gas-fired CCGT. 140 2.3MW turbines covering 30 sq miles at Whitelee will produce an installed capacity of 322MW; 7% of the output of a nuclear plant that would need 3.5% of the area, ignoring the need for spinning reserve! In 2003, the most recent year for which figures are available, America's power-generation industry spent less on R&D as a proportion of turnover than did the country's pet-food industry.


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The King's School, Canterbury
Oriel, Oxford


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