Our Business Objectives
At Allround Computer Solutions we take great pride in the level of customer service we provide to our clients. We empower them to embrace the world of Information technology (IT), via the use of our custom built systems, instruction manuals and tuition, all with no techno-babble, just plain english will do.
We were not born computer experts, and we respect every other computer user in the same way. We all started somewhere and there is no such thing as a stupid question or comment when it comes to learning computers.
Our goal is to take the fear and anxiety out of computing so our customers can enjoy their computing experience. This way they can explore the endless possibilities that come with using your computer and challenge the technological world with confidence.
We also specialize in Networking from hard wired to wireless, and also take the time to explain the importance of internet security, and how to secure your network to keep those pesky net nasties and intruders at bay.
We also focus on wireless internet security, observing all levels of security that can be implemented and again explain this to our customers' in simple english. Given that threats like viruses and Identity theft are on the rise every day, we make it our mission to secure our customers' network as much as possible with today’s latest technology.
Our business is constantly evolving keeping pace with the many changes in the IT industry. Because technology is improving so rapidly, we regularly attend seminars and conferences keeping us appraised of the fast paced changes taking place with global technology.
This is how we stay competitive providing our customers' with the best possible service to meet their specific requirements, while keeping them as safe as possible, both at home and in business. This also enables us to forecast our client's future needs, with strategies and planning, we can implement systems that facilitate the growth and development of their business.
Besides IT, we are also very passionate about aviation.
Captain's Seat
Tania in Training
Good Flight That !!
Instructor Training
Tania with Advanced Checklist
Tania Doing Pre-Take off checks
Tania Flyin an Instrument Departure
Tania Flying the Approach
PFD - Primary Flight Display
Tania performing a Rate One Turn
Gate 32 Sydney
Rwy 16R Sydney
Bored Pilot !!
After ILS Training
One of the 737 Simulators we Fly
Some of the Team at Flight Experience Q1
Flight Experience Q1 737 NG Simulator
Flight Experience Q1 737 NG Simulator
Always limit the bank angle to 30
Ansett Aviation Training
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This is where we do some of our flight training on 737's
The 737-377 Classic full Motion Simulator
we use for training.
The 737 "Classic" Simulator has six degrees of freedom or motion and is made by Rediffusion.
737 Classic Ansett Aviation Training
Instructor Captain John Laming with Tania
The CMT "Cockpit Mockup Trainer" this is
used for cockpit familiarisation.
Virgin Blue 737-800 NG Simulator, this is the winglet version incorperating CFM56-7B26 Engines.
Tania honning skills on the CMT
Virgin Blue 737-800 NG Simulator
Virgin Blue Simulator Autopilot at top
Overhead Panel of the 737 Classic
Pacific Simulators Autopilot
Overhead Panel on the Pacific Simulators NG
Real Cockpit 737-800 NG "Qantas"
Real cockpit 737-700 VH-VBA Virgin Blue
Boeing 747-300 Cockpit VH-EBQ
Qantas Boeing 737-800 NG VH-VXH
Boeing 747-300 VH-EBQ FO Seat
The early Model C-3 link Trainer.
This was and is an actual simulator. !!
It was known as the "Horror Box" !
Virgin Blue VH-VOL Boeing 737-800
About our Experience and Flight Training
As detailed obove, being aviation and simulator enthusiast’s, much of our spare time and money is spent on flying, we fly real aircraft and also simulators. Below is some detail about our experience and training covering a few stories about our experiences and the people we have met along the way.
Between myself and Tania we have amassed some 1500+hrs of total aeronautical experience, this entails real and simulated time, most of which has been on Boeing 737 simulators. I have accumualted just over 1200hrs instructing while Tania has almost 100hrs including sims and real flight time.
For the past two years I have been working on a B737-800 simulator as an instructor, this job has its many rewards, one being the people you meet and work with that have in some cases around 20 to 30 years of experience and several thousand hours.
These pilots offer and invaluable contribution to the aviation community and especially people such as myself and Tania, it is truly a privilege to have them fly alongside in the cockpit. Their knowledge and experience brings insights built on years of line flying with careers expanding from the RAAF, general aviation and the airlines.
Between myself and Tania we have amassed some 1500+hrs of total aeronautical experience, this entails real and simulated time, most of which has been on Boeing 737 simulators. I have accumualted just over 1200hrs instructing while Tania has almost 100hrs including sims and real flight time.
For the past two years I have been working on a B737-800 simulator as an instructor, this job has its many rewards, one being the people you meet and work with that have in some cases around 20 to 30 years of experience and several thousand hours.
These pilots offer and invaluable contribution to the aviation community and especially people such as myself and Tania, it is truly a privilege to have them fly alongside in the cockpit. Their knowledge and experience brings insights built on years of line flying with careers expanding from the RAAF, general aviation and the airlines.
I have been fortunate to have flown with people from airlines and companies such as Virgin Blue, Qantas, Rex, Qantas Link, Emirates, Air New Zealand, China Airlines, Korean Airlines, Delta, Swissair and Malaysia Airlines. Added to this the many flight attendants and ground service personal including engineers from maintenance and various other airline facilities.
Included in this mix of people are also members of the general public who again offer an exciting and interesting time while teaching them how to fly the 737. I have found that with almost every flight, you learn something you didn’t know before, and besides what you learn from other's, you also build and compound your own experience by listening and interacting with them. I consider these gifts you take away from each flight, use them wisely. !
Included in this mix of people are also members of the general public who again offer an exciting and interesting time while teaching them how to fly the 737. I have found that with almost every flight, you learn something you didn’t know before, and besides what you learn from other's, you also build and compound your own experience by listening and interacting with them. I consider these gifts you take away from each flight, use them wisely. !
The 737 is an awesome aircraft and a true testament to the folks at Boeing, like many aircraft it can throw at you many challenges, but at the same time, it is an absolute pleasure to fly and perhaps one of the easier aircraft to learn to fly. In the simulator, It often amazes me how someone with little or no real flight experience, can basically walse on in, and then after a quick brief, be in the air and shooting an ILS approach with a fair degree of accuracy.
Usually this is the thing airline pilots hone and practice to attain the level of precision and safety required for line flying. Based on my personal experience flying aircraft and simulators ranging from Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-400, JS41 Jetstream, Piper Cherokee, Cessna’s, skipper’s, Super Decathalon’s, Citabria’s and various other twin engined aircraft, I would have to say that the physical part of flying is the easy part. I believe almost anyone can do it, the hard part comes with the specifics involving procedure, rules and regulation and things like situational awareness and safety that require your most vigilant attention.
Virgin Blue Boeing 737-700 VH-VBS
No one could argue what an exhilarating experience it is to land a 737 right on the numbers, especially when it is you’re first landing. !!
When this buzz is shared with you and your student or students, you can seriously see just how elated they are about it, and it does become somewhat addictive after a while. This is the kind of comradery aviators and enthusiast bask in while in and out of the “pit”, the exhilaration lives on even months after the experience has passed.
Many stories have been told in the cockpit or over a beer or two about the best and worst, or the landing that almost didn’t make it, you could literally write a book about it and some have. What is to follow below details some aspects of both real and simulator flight training and the many stories I wish to tell covering the serious and funny side of flight training. !
When this buzz is shared with you and your student or students, you can seriously see just how elated they are about it, and it does become somewhat addictive after a while. This is the kind of comradery aviators and enthusiast bask in while in and out of the “pit”, the exhilaration lives on even months after the experience has passed.
Many stories have been told in the cockpit or over a beer or two about the best and worst, or the landing that almost didn’t make it, you could literally write a book about it and some have. What is to follow below details some aspects of both real and simulator flight training and the many stories I wish to tell covering the serious and funny side of flight training. !
My Flight Training
My flight training began many years ago at a Coolangatta Airport (YBCG) in light aircraft consisting primarily of beech skippers and Piper warriors. They fondly called these aircraft the “skippers” and “Cherokees".
It is amazing how you can very quickly grow to love something that gives you that extra bit of freedom you had never experienced before. Addictive yes while at the same time very dangerous to the inexperienced pilot that merely had a taste of flying. Coolangatta now known as “Gold Coast Airport” is a fantastic place for learning to fly.
It is amazing how you can very quickly grow to love something that gives you that extra bit of freedom you had never experienced before. Addictive yes while at the same time very dangerous to the inexperienced pilot that merely had a taste of flying. Coolangatta now known as “Gold Coast Airport” is a fantastic place for learning to fly.
Coolangatta Airport 2001
You have some of the best flying areas in Australia which also hosts the challenges of dealing with one of the busiest airports in Queensland. Operating in "C Class" Airpsace it also acommodates both RPT and civil traffic making for a very busy zone any time of day. Below depicts the training area of YBCG. This is situated minutes to the South and is G class airpsce
The training area for pilots was and still is situated south of YBCG and extends South from the Tweed River to Byron Bay with a Westerly inland slant tracking the old railway line. It forms a kind of dog leg as we knew it and also encompasses a couple of grass fields known as Tyagra and Murwillumbah. Tyagra being the busiest of the two hosts parachute and gliding ops with ultralight and light aircraft movements facilitated in between.
Tyagra is a rather tricky airport to land at. Especially from the west because it has power lines skirting the highway which you cross at barely 50ft above the approach path and literally meters from the threshold. Similar to Caboolture's runway 12 actually. The Easterly approach heralds some trees but the approach does not seem as daring and should a goround be in order chances are the obstacle clearance is somewhat less dawnting.
One factor that plagues even the seasoned instructor in these parts is low VMC with truck loads of IFR traffic and heaps of VFR training flights all occupying the same area of airspace.
Some days the visibility could be as low as 5500m, just bearly VMC minima and even more so during the summer months when a high dominates the area. This usually brings a fairly stiff South Easterly sometimes gusting upto 25-35kts or more, and makes for a very interesting landing on RWY (runway) 14 at Coolangatta. The winds become rather cross with the runway heading.
Some days the visibility could be as low as 5500m, just bearly VMC minima and even more so during the summer months when a high dominates the area. This usually brings a fairly stiff South Easterly sometimes gusting upto 25-35kts or more, and makes for a very interesting landing on RWY (runway) 14 at Coolangatta. The winds become rather cross with the runway heading.
I used to marvel at the jets coming and going and watch in awe as they landed with such precision, even in those torrid crosswinds. I often wondered if it was harder to land a light plane in those winds than a big jet. At one stage I thought the jet looked easy until I finally had the chance to give it a go in a real simulator. My first landing attempts were somwhat disasterous, I was flat out even keeping the so-called centerline let alone stay on a steady slope down to the runway.
I soon discovered controlling the inertia was something I was not used to, and found that unlike a light plane where you simply turn the wheel and it would turn with you, this rig kept on going the other way until I well and truly stopped it's momentum. “You don’t learn much about inertia in light aircraft that affects heavy aircraft”!
I soon discovered controlling the inertia was something I was not used to, and found that unlike a light plane where you simply turn the wheel and it would turn with you, this rig kept on going the other way until I well and truly stopped it's momentum. “You don’t learn much about inertia in light aircraft that affects heavy aircraft”!
After delving into a few books borrowed from friends about the aerodynamics and physics of jet aircraft I very soon realised that these where very different beast's indeed. After hours of reading and trying to understand the handling of big jets, my zest for knowledge finally gave in and back to the drawing board it was.
With my tail tilted torso bound, I wavered with some undelivered sense of absolution that I would never conquer these metallic monsters, I wished I could fly like the pros and reticent of my previous attempts all looked doomed to fail! After spending huge amounts on things like Microsoft Flight Simulator, a flightsim yoke, the pedals, the 737 software package by PMDG and the 737 manuals by various other companies, I finally discovered what the big airplane thing was all about. I was also lucky enough to land a job (pardon the pun) with a company that uses real 737 simulators for things like airline pre-inteview flights, IFR revision, airline cadet training etc. I bacame an instructor with this company after recieving countless hours of intense training.
These simulators are CASA rated and so when I flew with the pro's, I new some of these guys and girls had more experience than me, I simply specialised in particular areas that was usefull to them. During my training it seemed there was actaully very little hands on flying involved and much of it consisted of learning and using automatic flight systems built into these aircraft.
The automatic flight thing is call the AFDS or the "Automatic Flight Director System", almost sounds like the symphony conductor, and that is basically what it is. The difference coincides with a conductor directing the orchestra, and the auto flight system directing the pilot or his intsruments to direct the aircraft and its flight path.
With my tail tilted torso bound, I wavered with some undelivered sense of absolution that I would never conquer these metallic monsters, I wished I could fly like the pros and reticent of my previous attempts all looked doomed to fail! After spending huge amounts on things like Microsoft Flight Simulator, a flightsim yoke, the pedals, the 737 software package by PMDG and the 737 manuals by various other companies, I finally discovered what the big airplane thing was all about. I was also lucky enough to land a job (pardon the pun) with a company that uses real 737 simulators for things like airline pre-inteview flights, IFR revision, airline cadet training etc. I bacame an instructor with this company after recieving countless hours of intense training.
These simulators are CASA rated and so when I flew with the pro's, I new some of these guys and girls had more experience than me, I simply specialised in particular areas that was usefull to them. During my training it seemed there was actaully very little hands on flying involved and much of it consisted of learning and using automatic flight systems built into these aircraft.
The automatic flight thing is call the AFDS or the "Automatic Flight Director System", almost sounds like the symphony conductor, and that is basically what it is. The difference coincides with a conductor directing the orchestra, and the auto flight system directing the pilot or his intsruments to direct the aircraft and its flight path.
Boeing 737 AFDS with Autopilot and CDU's
Many folks are bewildered to think that a computer can fly the very plane in which they sit comfortably in a back seat, all the while a series of computers takes care of the flying. The Auto pilot is known as “George” and he has a long list of winged automobiles to his name.
Entrusted we fly happily relaxed totally oblivious to the fact that our old mate George is flying and we needn’t worry about a dammed thing. Hooray to the computer revolution we say as we all embask in its joys, pilots can now apparently focus more on the serious side of flying and navigating the aircraft while George has control.
“Bugger me, imagine that”, a computer has control and you can sit back and relax as it takes you over and beyond the big blue yonder. Such is the marvel of technology, from byplanes to microchips and microprocessors. From a real pilot to a very expensive piece of plastic and metal that is for the time being your pilot. Welocme Aboard!!
Dont get me wrong in saying that the plastic chips can not do a great job, because let me tell you they absolutley can. !! Believe it or not these chips can even land the plane without a pilot. I do not know about stopping but I sure as hell can tell you about landing.
I am no expert but perhaps either plastic planes and metal computers or metal planes and plastic computers or maybe composites of both may one day fly you and me from A to B.
Who knows with the evolving wealth of technology, one thing is for sure, and that is, if we can travel futher for less, it will dictate our trevalling future. Lighter airplanes with more power per kilometer will set the bench mark. Plastic planes may well take us into the 22nd Century, but equiping them with the best engines and feulling them might be our achillies heel.
Something manufacturuers and airlines well know, that is: "as time goes by our need for higher loads and better fuel economy will increase, as will our sustained need for more econmical aircraft".
Entrusted we fly happily relaxed totally oblivious to the fact that our old mate George is flying and we needn’t worry about a dammed thing. Hooray to the computer revolution we say as we all embask in its joys, pilots can now apparently focus more on the serious side of flying and navigating the aircraft while George has control.
“Bugger me, imagine that”, a computer has control and you can sit back and relax as it takes you over and beyond the big blue yonder. Such is the marvel of technology, from byplanes to microchips and microprocessors. From a real pilot to a very expensive piece of plastic and metal that is for the time being your pilot. Welocme Aboard!!
Dont get me wrong in saying that the plastic chips can not do a great job, because let me tell you they absolutley can. !! Believe it or not these chips can even land the plane without a pilot. I do not know about stopping but I sure as hell can tell you about landing.
I am no expert but perhaps either plastic planes and metal computers or metal planes and plastic computers or maybe composites of both may one day fly you and me from A to B.
Who knows with the evolving wealth of technology, one thing is for sure, and that is, if we can travel futher for less, it will dictate our trevalling future. Lighter airplanes with more power per kilometer will set the bench mark. Plastic planes may well take us into the 22nd Century, but equiping them with the best engines and feulling them might be our achillies heel.
Something manufacturuers and airlines well know, that is: "as time goes by our need for higher loads and better fuel economy will increase, as will our sustained need for more econmical aircraft".