STOP PRESS – I helped a mate get a CV together a few weeks ago having just finished his frozen ATPL. He phoned me last night to say he’s just landed an A320 job with Air Malta! Looks like things are really bright and bubbly at the moment on the recruitment front. Hope this will be happening to you two soon.

Bishop has been the thorn in the side that stopped this happening years ago. Virgin staff wanted it, bmi staff wanted it, it was just Bishop who didn’t. Rumour mill believes it is apparantly a takeover, not a merger.

The DC3 has it’s cabin door on the left… unless it was made in the Soviet Union (called a Li-2) when the door would now be on the right!

La Guardia is a domestic airport, Newark an JFK are more international orientated. JFK is a bit of a nightmare, personally I much prefer Newark. Connections to Manhattan from all are very good, as they should be. Don’t forget Newark is actually in a different state (New Jersey).

Is it not a currently held view in the medical profession that almost everybody experiences at least a petit mal fit at some point in their life?

As in “Ohm Igod, look how much I spent last month”

We usually just look at each other and say “ohm my god, what’s it doing now?”

I remember going into the GFT training thinking I was an above average kind of pilot and that the syllabus looked like nothing new. As I said earlier the whole system is all about enhancing your approach and attitude toward what you are doing and I distinctly remember going through the same crushing feeling that what you have always done in the past without having to think about suddenly seems so difficult. Ride it through, it will suddenly click into place… and that will be the time they put you up for the test. Have faith, the fact that you are questioning yourself shows that you are exactly the right person to pull through. When you re-read this thread when in possession of a blue license you will understand what I mean.