Andy Tracy's CX Stuff

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est

"Talented people need organisations less than organisations need talented people."

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."

"It's not a Command Course!"

Thanks to all for getting me through 25,000 hits - who are you guys?
last updated: 08:24 08 June 2009

Nick, Will, Matt & Danny from FK RFU and HK U14s 

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

Aviation

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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.
I've just rebuilt the directory structure under the website so if you can't find something.....

If any of these files seem a bit out of date e-mail me: cx@andytracy.net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

Airbus: Getting to grips with the MEL

Airbus Tech Quiz

Air France 447 - weather analysis  more

Ali Hassani's maps website

AML - if no inbound Commander's signature

AOA - please consider joining - I don't need you to agree with me but I do want your opinion heard

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

Asian Pilots' Wiki

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

BritFlight.com - new home of Wingfiles - info you never knew you needed

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

Flight Plan Item 18 - NAV/RNVD1E2A1

Fuel load change for RTOW change

Fuel - Ramp/Lndg corrections in simple terms!!

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
more...

Jeppesen Weather

Management v Leadership
"Managing winds up being the allocation of resources against tasks. Leadership focuses on people.
My definition of a leader is someone who helps people succeed." Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo

Managing the descent see also FCTM Ch 10

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

MRAs - the strange thing about CX MRAs

My CX Vol 1 and Vol 2 Pt 2 integrated index - Rev 101/427 Word Excel

Newbery Doctrine - at last, some creative thinking from the training department

PA - perfect demo for Beginners

Pete Lees' Guides to Fuel Policy 1  2

Pocket FMS

Polar Grid Nav

Practical demo of lifejacket and oxygen mask - you don't need to

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

RP 07 Special from AOA

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

Turn radius - some fool asked if I knew how to calculate the turn radius

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:

Look up in World Aero database:

Airports Navaids

Computing

 

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

Rome - the ancient version

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.


My old school ties:

The King's School, Canterbury
Oriel, Oxford


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