Live from the Flight Deck

The usual IR course day is composed of one flight and one backseat, with all the planning that comes along. Unfortunately this week has been...

Bournemouth - Bristol Filton - Bournemouth - Cardiff - Bournemouth, that was the plan for the day. I flew the first two sectors, and Steve w...

Sim check done and dusted, we're finally back in the plane for the last 20 hours of training. The first few flights are familiarisation ...

The IR (Instrument Rating) is probably the most important course towards the airline flying. This is where we're taught all the procedur...

People often ask me what's so special about flying? Why would someone want to be an airline pilot? There are so many different aspects t...

6:00am. The sky is going from a foggy orange dark to blue dark as the morning sets up, the town is slowly waking up. Today is different from...

We had a lot going on this last few days. That was a pretty busy week indeed, starting with two days of absolutely crap weather (windy, low ...