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Hello all, Just thought I would share with you the flying variety I have experienced in nearly 300 hours commercial flying in Europe, quite a cool picture! Obviously many of these routes have been flown multiple times, I can only imagine what the map will look like after 3000 hours and a few base changes . . . → Read More: What 300 Hours looks like… I am glad to be here having finally made the time to continue the story about my flight training experience. I do wish I had the time to write more often, not just so others can maybe learn from my experiences, but because I enjoy reminiscing about my experiences. So far I have written 3 . . . → Read More: Pilot Training – From Zero Hours to ATPL (Part 4) I thought I would use the few moments I had available to write a blog post about something which I am asked regularly by new ‘wannabe’ pilots or when reading aviation forums on the internet, often see it asked: When should I start training? I am currently sat 3 rows from the back on . . . → Read More: When to start training? The unanswerable question? Tomorrow, that is where I will be, in the skies above Northern Europe. It’s been a long time coming but today is the eve of my first commercial flight with actual paying customers wanting ME to fly them from place to place! The thought is quite daunting but extremely exciting and is the start of . . . → Read More: To the skies! 
I would like to say that I am finally writing my much anticipated follow up to my Pilot Training series of blog posts – but frankly I don’t have enough followers yet to genuinely believe that! Nevertheless, here I am eventually writing again. For those of you interested in my story, I apologise for the . . . → Read More: Pilot Training – From Zero Hours to ATPL (Part 3) Airbus received some positive news today for the Airbus A380 programme as Asiana, a South Korean airline, placed 6 orders for delivery from 2014. The news will be welcome as it is the first order made for the aircraft since the Qantas A380 incident towards the end of last year (details of which can be . . . → Read More: Six new orders for the A380 Easyjet, the UK’s largest airline has recently announced a number of strategies that will result in both short and long term growth. In addition to announcing a 13% increase in capacity for summer 2011, the airline yesterday announced it has converted 15 options for the Airbus A320 in to firm orders to be delivered over . . . → Read More: Easyjet announces new growth There have been a few comments from Ryanair this week that seem to indicate they are lining up suitors for a potential new aircraft order. Ryanair, Europe’s largest low-cost airline, holds a very strong position in negotiating a good price when bulk buying aircraft and it seems they want to bring Airbus to the . . . → Read More: Ryanair lining up suitors for new aircraft order? Nine months ago last Wednesday I logged my first ever hours in an aircraft flying a Piper Warrior III in Goodyear, Arizona. Yesterday I completed 20 hours in the Boeing 737-400 simulator at Oxford Aviation Academy in the UK. In that time I have gone from being a zero hour pilot to a currently unemployed . . . → Read More: Pilot Training – From Zero Hours to ATPL (Part 2) As a follow up to my previous post Qantas A380 Services to Resume it has now been announced that Qantas has begun legal proceedings against Rolls Royce. A Qantas A380 flight from Singapore last month had a serious un-contained engine failure which resulted in the grounding of A380 fleets of multiple airlines while a . . . → Read More: Qantas begins legal action against Rolls-Royce |
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