Your happiest moment in aviation?

I have a few,

When I first flew solo at 17.
Gaining my PPL
Getting my first flying job with Aurigny
And last but not least…Getting my dream job flying the 744 for Cathay Pacific.:cool:

My happiest was when i went to the flight deck of a Dash 8 BA flying to Gatwick from Newcastle, this was also my first flight ever.

Originally posted by Johnny
My happiest moment was probably one of my visits to the flight deck. The AIH 757-200 was probably the best, soon before landing at MME.

Same here, my happiest was flight deck of BY757 to ACE from NCL.

It would have to be my first solo in November last year at Sydney Bankstown. It was in a C152 reg VH-HCE. On the crosswind leg, I had a perfect photo oppurtunity of one of the new QANTAS 747-400ERs coming in for approach. Now that’s a picture I’ll never forget.

Cheers,
Paul

I’m tempted to say Barcelona the other week, but that wasn’t so much aviation related as just me floating on air…

erm, first and only cockpit visit, BA5403 (Zurich-Birmingham), 24/12/1990, BAC1-11-501EX, G-AXJK.

Either that, or my first Transatlantic flight… BA2199 (Gatwick-Pittsburgh, PA), 09/07/1997, Boeing 767-336ER, Club World. Didn’t get the reg 🙁

We had Concorde here at LBA too:) A couple of times. They were great occasions. Also my 1st flight on a Tristar was great back in 99 and going up to the cockpit of a Monarch A320 in 95 was also great.

you have had concorde:mad: 😡 😡 cool:D

When Concorde came to Newcastle in 1994

when my dad got back from JFK….eventually because the plane there had a crack in the windscreen then when the next plane got there and they boarded someone declared he had explosives in his luggage:mad: Got back 30hrs late after all that. His flight was initiallty delayed by 5 hrs

One was back in the sixties when i got to ride in the jumpseat of an Ansett Lockheed Electra between Melbourne and Adelaide
The other was in 97 when flying between Sydney and LAX onboard a Qantas 744, it was arranged by the purser that i pay a visit to the flight deck, where i once again got to ride in the jump seat for a short time

Geez, I’ve had so many throughout the years. Perhaps the first time I remember flying on a 747, it was TWA in 1983 when I was 9, from LAX-JFK. The reason I say ‘remember’ because when I was 2, we also flew on TWA from LAX-ATH via JFK. Those 4 segments could have been a combination of 747’s, L1011’s, and even a 707, perhaps. In 1976, there were still quite a few of those flying around. I am still, to this day, trying to find out for sure the aircraft types on those segments. I even have the dates, if anyone is able to help me out.

CX889 JFK-YVR-HKG, 18/8/02. 20 hours of pure buisness class happiness

Sometime in the 90s- last Delta flight from Tel Aviv. No more triangle for me. Hurrah!

The day I was accepted to become an airline pilotwhich incidentally was also one of the worst days of my aviation life, October 24th 2003, the day concorde was retired. That day one life long dream flew out of the window, but my greatest one came true!

I turned a SLR 737-400 on the way from TFS to BRU. Lucky me, the captain was really nice!

My first solo out of Ormond Beach FL when doing my PPL:D

MYRIA

My happiest moment was probably one of my visits to the flight deck. The AIH 757-200 was probably the best, soon before landing at MME.

CoolWish I was on a BA B747 right now!
p.s will,my new quiz is up,please send your answers to:
[email]skylinerworldaviation@europe.com[/email] instead of my other,thanks,
skylinerworld.

Some pics of it in the old coulours wen i flew on it:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/336974/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/311108/L/

it was reg G-BNLI

mine was years ago wen i flew on my first BA boeing 747