Day 2 in the Flightglobal editor's chair

Now I know why I liked magazines so much! writes stand-in editor of Flightglobal Mark Pilling.

You get say 40 pages to fill and when you filled them with good stuff you say job done, off to press it goes and you read the result.

Flightglobal is like having an infinite number of pages to produce, they are all instantly open to being updated and you never reach the deadline.

So where do you start editing a never ending conveyor belt?

After one of those scrums with the IT folk where I doubt I added much value I got down to a good old-fashioned news meeting.

That revealed that Niall O'Keeffe was preparing a story on the P&W GTF engine for the Chinese regional airliner. That made the lead slot on Flightglobal yesterday afternoon.

Another nice story was the context David Learmount put around the Day of Action European pilots were holding to highlight their concerns around flight time duty limitations. This is what Flightglobal journalists do so well.

Behind the basic news agenda Flightglobal has oceans of content that needs updating, moving around, highlighting etc etc. There are videos to edit and post, forums to monitor, blogs to write and a host of special features to present.

Some of the updates yesterday and today are:

* Mary Kirby and Jon Ostrower at the World Airline Entertainment Association - LIVE

* Flightglobal's new image shop is now OPEN FOR BUSINESS

* Visit the Airline Business blog and this special landing page for videos from the World Low Cost Airlines Congress last week in Barcelona