About

Welcome to my home page, Hangout. My name is Chris Parker. I’m a professional pilot (long-haul) and occasional light aircraft pilot and instructor. I’ve always enjoyed travelling and usually document my travels with photography. I live in London, in the UK.

Apart from links to my photo sites, you’ll find some articles on light aircraft flying around the world, a little about professional flying and some stuff on photography.

My photographs get uploaded to various places. Most of my half-reasonable ones can be found on Flickr. I put the best on my photo-blog, Picture of the Day, and special events go to my Mobile Me gallery. I also have a gallery on this site which contains aircraft photos, photos of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport, and some sailing photos.

I hope you enjoy your visit here and find what you want.

To contact me please use the Contact page on this site or securely through this address.

This blog is created in Wordpress. It uses the following plug-ins for various purposes:

There are 30 plugins used: 30 active plugins and 0 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

Additional image sizes 1.0.2
» Walter Vos (url)
Allows you to create additional image sizes (in addition to the thumbnail, medium and large size that are default) for your blog

Add Twitter RSS 1.2
» Paul McCarthy (url)
Adds your Twitter RSS Link to your Blog Title

Akismet 2.2.7
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

AudioBoo WP 1.2
» BestBefore (url)
AudioBoo plugin. See also: AudioBoo website.

Broken Link Checker 0.8.1
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

cforms 11.3
» Oliver Seidel (url)
cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see ____HISTORY.txt for what’s new and current bugfixes.

FD Feedburner Plugin 1.41
» John Watson (url)
Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed

Flickr Photo Album 1.1
» Joe Tan (url)
This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts. Configure…

flickrRSS 5.1
» Dave Kellam and Stefano Verna (url)
Allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site.

Image Upload HTTP Error Fix 1.1
» John Blackbourn (url)
Fixes the media uploader HTTP Error that some WordPress configurations suffer from.

Lightbox 2 2.9.2
» Rupert Morris (url)
Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Now with better regular expressions, courtesy of Michael Tyson!

MapPress Easy Google Maps 1.5.8.10
» Chris Richardson (url)
MapPress makes it easy to insert Google Maps in WordPress posts and pages.

NextGEN Gallery 1.4.3
» Alex Rabe (url)
A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.

NextGEN Resize. 1.3b
» Manoj Sachwani (url)
A plugin mod to the ever popular plugin Nextgen gallery. This plugin resizes the images on the fly, as you upload them. This comes in handy if you or clients are uploading images that are oversize and hiRes.

Now Reading Reloaded 5.1.2.1
» Ben Gunnink (url)
Allows you to display the books you’re reading, have read recently and plan to read, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon.

Page Links To 2.3
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.

Skype Online Status 2.7
» RavanH (url)
Add multiple, highly customizable and accessible Skype buttons to post/page content (quick-tags), sidebar (unlimited number of widgets) or anywhere else (template code). Find documentation and advanced configuration options on the Skype Online Status Settings page or just go straight to your Widgets page and Skype away…

Sociable 3.5.2
» Blogplay (url)
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.

TinyMCE Advanced 3.2.7
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.

TweetPress 2.2.1
» Brandon Trebitowski (url)
TweetPress is the Wordpress Plug-In that gives you total control and ownership of the photos you post to Twitter, sending traffic back to your own blog, instead of a third party site.

Twitter for Wordpress 1.9.7
» Ricardo González (url)
Displays your public Twitter messages for all to read. Based on Pownce for Wordpress by Cavemonkey50.

WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

WordPress Exploit Scanner 0.95
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Scans your WordPress site for possible exploits.

WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

wp-prowl 0.8.0
» Nathan Wittstock (url)
A plugin for interfacing your Wordpress with Prowl, an application for receiving custom push notifications on your iPhone.

WP Comment Auto Responder 3.0.3
» Ahlul Faradish (url)
Just check out my plugin url ;), dont forget to check this update, i’ll make more feature later.

WP Google Analytics 1.2.4
» Aaron D. Campbell (url)
Lets you use Google Analytics to track your WordPress site statistics

WP to Twitter 2.0.1
» Joseph Dolson (url)
Updates Twitter when you create a new blog post or add to your blogroll using Cli.gs. With a Cli.gs API key, creates a clig in your Cli.gs account with the name of your post as the title.

WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.9.9.6
» Dale Mugford & Duane Storey (BraveNewCode) (url)
A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.

Xavin's List Subpages 1.3
» Jonathan 'Xavin' Spence (url)
Adds a shortcode tag [xls] to display a list of the subpages of the current page.