Global Aviation

Issue 2/ October 2010 Page 1 Introduction

Welcome on board this Global Aircraft. In this issue of the Global Aviation Magazine, we will take a look at the lovely French Côte d’Azur and we take a look at the future Global Fleet. Also this month’s featured aircraft, the Boeing 757-300. We wish you a pleasant flight.

3. Pittsburgh rediscovered

5. The Cô te d’Azur 7. The workhorse of the fleet: the 757-300

9. Pilot of the month

10. Global tour preview

11. In-flight movies/featured music

13. From the Front desk

Page 2 Introduction

Page 3 Pittsburgh rediscovered

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Probably one of the nicest cities in Pennsylvania. It lies at a river fork where the Allegheny River and the Monogahela River meet and form the Ohio River. In 2007 it was the most livable city in the US and now it sits on a third place. The city was previously one of the biggest metal industry capitals of the US, but most factories closed in the 1970’s, and Pittsburgh turned into a city that is not known very well, but surely is worth a weekend city trip.

The ‘peninsula’ on which the city centre has been build, is full of nice parks and squares. It is often called “small-Manhattan” due to the similarity of the shape of the city centre. The city-centre consists mainly out of modern buildings, but it also has an old district which comes from the steel city time.

Not only the centre is nice. To the south of the centre you will find Grandview Park, from which you will have a great view over the city. The top of Grandview Park can be reached by the Monogahela Incline, a funicular railway. Even further south you will find the district Mt Washington. A lot of money is currently being invested in this part of the city, and in a few years this will be the place to be.

Restaurants

For traditional American food go to Big Jim’s. Big steaks and good hamburgers can be found here. Of you prefer Italian food you should really go to Bruschetta’s. They have great pasta’s, and you can also create your own. If you want to eat high-class go to Eleven, a stylish restaurant with a contemporary kitchen.

If you want to leave Pittsburgh for a day, go to Addresses: Wheeling, a town 50 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. It feels like you travel back 40 years ago if you go Big Jim’s, 201 Saline hear. The town used to be an important steel factory Street, (412) 421-0532 town. Now you can visit the old steel factories. Also there is an old suspension bridge from 1849, along Bruschetta’s, 1831 E with a museum outlining the history of this strangely Carson Street, (412) build town. 431-3535

Eleven, 1150 Smallman Street, (412) 201-5656

Page 4 Pittsburgh rediscovered

Pittsburgh International Airport

Pittsburgh International Airport was opened in 1940 as a military airport. In 1944 building started for a commercial airport. In 1952 it was opened and at the time even the largest of the United States. The first airlines to serve Pittsburgh were TWA and Capital Airlines (which later became part of United Airlines). TWA even flew transcontinental from Pittsburgh to Frankfurt and London. In 1985 British Airways started a regular flight to London with a stop in Philadelphia. In 1992 the new terminal opened and all traffic was transferred there. From 2009 on, Global Express Airways serves Pittsburgh with regular flights to Chicago, Houston and Memphis. Global Air International does not serve Pittsburgh. Global Express Airways also has a lounge at the airport, located at gate A 1.

If you want to reach Pittsburgh from somewhere else, it is the easiest to transfer at Chicago O’ Hare International as of the many destinations served from O’ Hare. If you want to travel in even more style than with Global Express Airways you can choose to fly with Global Express Executive Charters, which fly anywhere you want. For more information please visit www.globalexpressair.com.

Page 5 The Côte d’Azur

The lovely French Riviera is probably the best place in Europe to spend a nice Autumn week. The lovely beaches, ports and towns are ideal for a week of rest. From the moment when you exit the airplane Nice Côte d’Azur Airport, you already smell the lovely sea salt, and the smell of flowers. We have listed in this article the nicest places to visit when going to the Côte.

Nice

Nice, the biggest city in the Côte, is a nice, but rather busy place to visit. The lovely beach along the Promenade des Anglais, or the lovely Place Massena are the tourists favorites. Less known is the port of Nice, which lies in between the rocks to the east of the city centre. The port is filled with artists selling their watercolor paintings and old women selling fresh fish. I the water there are many big yachts, along with small fishing boats, a very interesting combination. Another place worth visiting here is the Opera of Nice, located on the Promenade des Anglais. The opera directly faces the sea, and inside the opera house the ceiling are covered with magnificent frescoes.

Cannes

Cannes mainly famous because of the film festival. It attracts many people from all over

the world. Cannes is a very nice town which mainly focuses on the high society of Europe, which can spend their money in the Louis Vuitton or Ralph Lauren shops which can be found on the seaside boulevard. When going to Cannes make sure to visit the Carlton Hotel, possibly one of the most luxurious hotels in the world. Entering the lobby feels like entering a palace. The old Page 6 The Côte d’Azur

town centre is also very nice, and looks exactly like what you would expect from a Mediterranean town. You can smell the sea salt, and of course the soap which is being sold as souvenirs in the many touristic shops.

Saint Tropez

Saint Tropez is really the capital of the high society. The big yachts in the harbor, sometimes even with a helicopter on the deck, show this. Even though the town is rather small, it is very popular. The beautiful picturesque streets which lead to the small church with the yellow bell tower, or the fish market in the gangway on the way to the harbor, make the town worth to visit. When visiting Saint Tropez make sure you go to the old harbor, where you can find yachts the size of a football field, or tri-mast sailing boats. Also visit the Citadel, the fortress with a magnificent view over Saint Tropez. From there you can even see Port-Grimaud, a holiday village build as Venice.

Page 7 The workhorse of the fleet: the 757-300

The Boeing 757-300 was introduced by Boeing as an aircraft to be used on short flight with high passenger counts. An example of the ideal usage of the 757-300 is the route London-Paris. Also the aircraft is used often by charter companies because of the low maintenance costs.

Boeing was looking for an aircraft that fitted the job of carrying many people over short stretches, the 757-200 from 1983 was getting old and Boeing needed a replacement. A stretched version of the 757-200 was planned and the idea was to get 240 seats. The 757-300 was first presented at the Farnborough air show in 1996 as the 757-300X. The main difference between the 757-200 and -300 was the 7.11 meter longer fuselage. Also the cabin was modernized with larger overhead bins and vacuum toilets, as well as indirect lighting. The cockpit stayed the same as the -200.

The 757-300 first flew on 2 August 1998, and first flew for Condor in March 1999. It flies for Global Air International since 2009, and mainly flies on flights with a flight time of maximum 5 hours.

A Global Air International pilot needs to have flown 50 hours before he is allowed to fly the 757-300 to ensure a safe and comfortable flight with Global Air International. You can read more about the 757-300 on www.globalairinternational.com.

Page 8 The workhorse of the fleet: the 757-300

Page 9 Pilot of the Month

In this new returning article we focus on one pilot of either Global Air International or Global Express Air. We thank Global Express Pilot Tim Davis for this great idea. He is also our first pilot of the month.

Your Full Name: Tim Davis (Timothy Scott Davis)

Hometown: Indian Springs, NV (40 miles outside Las Vegas)

Favorite sport and hobby: Bicycling – Aviation (via Flight Sim X)

Favorite GAI or GEX destination: Anchorage, Alaska

Favorite GAI or GEX aircraft and reason: Boeing 737-800. I have a lot of (FSX) flight time in 737’s, especially the 737-300 (FeelThere/Wilco Pilot in Command payware), so transitioning to the 800 series was fairly easy. I have a (Flight One) Cessna Citation Mustang which I love dearly and fly often on personal trips. When I started flying the 737-300, I never realized how “heavy” it feels until my first session in the FAA approved flight simulator at Pan American Flight Training Center, Las Vegas. Prior to joining GEX, I was flying (virtual) 737’s for Southwest and Delta (paint schemes in PIC).

Why did you want to join GEX: I was just filling holes in the sky until my friend John Sponseller suggested I give GEX a try. I just fell in love with the entire GEX concept and the ability to fly various aircraft on either short trips or long hauls. No one is handing me a schedule that I have to fly. The BID process is easy and quick and pilots get to fly the routes and aircraft they enjoy. The job is never work when it is fun!

The staff at GEX was incredibly helpful in assisting me when I first came on board with download issues and other problems a typical rookie faces. They made me feel at home and I am now proud to call Global Express Airways my (virtual) airline home.

Page 10 Global Tour Preview

In July Global Air International introduced a new way to get double flight hours, a special tour schedule. Now, two months later, Global Air International and Global Express Air are introducing a new tour, and we were allowed to preview it.

The new tour will be going around in Australia along the coast, visiting Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Learmonth, Curtin, Darwin, Cairns and Brisbane. You can choose to either start in the US at Seattle, San Francisco or Los Angeles and cross the Pacific to Sydney, or you start directly in Sydney.

The aircraft to be used are the 737-800 within Australia, and the 787-800 or the 747-400 for the Pacific routes. All of them have special paint kits and also have a special VIP interior, with all first class seats for the guests which will be flying with us.

The tour will be flown from the 11th of October until the 11th of November. All the Global Pilots will get free hotel stays at the cities served and at the end of the event a big dinner in Sydney.

Page 11 In-flight Movies/featured music

On all flights of Global Air International and Global Express Airways, there are television screens build in the seat in front of you. These are the movies featured in October. You can choose to play one of the movies by clicking on movies in the menu.

The Back-up Plan: Despite best-laid plans. In this comedy a woman meets the man of her dreams, only it’s the same day she is artificially inseminated. As a relationship(and her pregnancy) develop, hilarity ensues.

Comedy 1 hr. 40 min.

PG

Iron Man 2: Super Secret. Iron Man Tony Stark is unwilling to divulge his secrets behind his armor because he fears the information will fall in the wrong hands.

Action/Adventure

PG-13

The Town: Dangerous love. As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as an FBI agent trying to hunt him down.

Crime 2 hrs. 3 min.

PG-13

Toy Story 3: They are alive! The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.

Kids 1 hr. 48 min.

PG

Inception: Dream thieves. In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job till date, Inception.

Action/Adventure 2 hrs. 28 min.

PG-13

Page 12 In-flight Movies/featured music

Global in-flight services features two artists a month, which can be found directly on the main menu. We have a total of over 500 artists in the music library, which can be accessed by pressing on ‘music’.

Nickelback: Nickelback is currently one of the most successful rock bands in Canada. Founded in 1995 by Chad Kroeger, who does the vocals in the songs. The band became famous with the song “How You Remind Me” which hit #1 position on the US billboards. In 2008 they release the single “If Today Was Your Last Day” which reached #1 position again. Nickelback then released their hit album “Dark Horse” with many songs that made the Top 100.

Peter Fox: Peter Fox is a German rapper in the band Seeed. In 2008 he released his first solo album “Stadtaffe” (City Ape). It became a big success in Germany and Austria, as well as in The Netherlands and France. He sang songs with many famous German artists such as Sido (rapper). Peter Fox’s greatest hit was “Haus Am See” (House at the Lake) from 2008 wherein he describes his holiday house in Carinthia, Austria. Hopefully Peter Fox will make his breakthrough in the US in a couple of years, as he deserves it.

FROM THE FRONT DESK

Hello again left seat drivers,

Another month has gone and as we can see, Sebastiaan Jansen GL-006 has again turned out another editorial masterpiece "Global Aviation". Some of us may think that Sebastiaan is winging it, you would be right in thinking so because he brings to us another issue that gives us new cities to learn about and some insight on another Global aircraft. Nobody can disagree that sometimes you do have to "wing it" to find some of those common as well as out of the way places and an aircraft is the best way to wing anything. I have not been to Pittsburgh nor to the French Riviera but they certainly are on my "to do" list now that I have read about them.

How many of you have been to the "Land Down Under"? Some of us have been there in the real world and in the virtual world and that is going to be our theme for our next X2 event that will be taking place from Mid October thru Mid November. Rated pilots will get the opportunity to fly the Pacific and/or cover the Australian continent from Sydney to Darwin to Perth to .... well you get the idea, a nice trip around the continent in whole or in part.

The best part is not just the X2 side of it but the ability for both Global Express and Global International to log some nice flight time to places most of us have never been and Global Express pilots will be able to deadhead across the pacific then fly the B737/800 to build hours so now is a good time to complete your 737 type rating and enjoy the event. A GAI pilot could fly to Australia in a B787 and return to the USA using the B747 with the extra rank, the hours are there to gain for certification and its much easier with the X2 hours. Regardless, we are certain you will enjoy your trip down under so please watch for details as we begin bringing the program into fruition. You can follow the links on the index page of Global International.

We are trying something new at Global in our media area. In the past we have brought pilots media in the form of slide shows and that is about to be upgraded. Beginning with October we will start providing media in full motion video. This motion video will begin with the promotion of our "Land Down Under" event and we hope you enjoy watching the show. Before we used flash and pdx presentation plug-ins and the new media will be presented in Quicktime as a streaming mp4 file. Its quite a change for us at Global and we hope you like the new format.

One more thing for our pilots and if you have been with us for awhile you know we are always trying to bring you something new for your experience. Our crew manager has finished testing a new random flight generator so when you have been cruising around the schedules and simply cannot find a destination, one click and you are on your way. Another nice option if you choose to use it, again follow the information on the schedule pages or index pages for these and other items and don't forget, you can always contact us for help if needed.

Before I get back to my cold coffee, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Sebastiaan Jansen who traded his GL-0052 for a GL-0006 number. Sebastiaan is our formal editor for Global Aviation and holding a chair in our technical department. Good to have you in that chair Sebastiaan.

Congratulations also go to ATP Captain Tim Davis GL-0048 on his recognition as Pilot of the Month for October and his recent advancement that happened to coincide with his recognition.

Fair skies to all,

Roy Cantu GL-0001

CEO Global Express / Global Air International