RE: Rolls-Royce Trent

Presumably similar to the diffuser on the back end of A340 CFM engines. As Kabir says, it does a lot to suppress noise.

RE: Sheffield City

It’s very rare to find 1 pilot who doesn’t want to progress to a jet, but a whole airline of them…

RE: Open Skies

Mongu, I misread your posting and assumed they were planning to stop EU airlines from operating within other EU countries.

If anyone is wondering what the five freedoms are…

First Freedom – The right to fly across another country without landing (sometimes called transit freedom).

Second Freedom – The right to land in another country for purposes other than carrying passengers, such as re-fueling or maintenance (usually first and second freedoms are considered as temporary flight, not a schedule flight).

Third Freedom – The right to land in another country from their own country for purpose of commercial services.

Fourth Freedom – The right to fly from another country to their own country for purpose of commercial services.

Fifth Freedom – Sometimes refered to as “beyond right” . This freedom enables airlines to carry passengers to one country and then fly on to another country (rather than back to their own). This freedom divided into two categories:
Intermediate Fifth Freedom is the right to carry from the third country to second country.
Beyond Fifth Freedom is the right to carry from second country to the third country.

(The Third and Fourth Freedoms stand together as the basis for commercial services, providing the rights to load and unload passengers, mail and cargo in another country.)

RE: Ambitions As A Child??????

My childhood ambition was to be a millionaire

RE: Sheffield City

Bearing in mind that they fly old crates (aka lovely aeroplanes to the readers of FlyPast!) they have an astonishing statistic for keeping their pilots. Very few pilots ever leave. Perhaps they are held at gunpoint or are just plain happy!

RE: Sheffield City

Very sensible EGNM. Get yourself on the inside of a company who will offer sponsorships. JMC are going to be doing this through the ATP Academy. Other airlines are FlyBe, Air2000, Air Atlantique/Atlantic Airways, BA, etc. In fact, Air Atlantique in Coventry would be a very good one to try to get inside as they have some very interesting flying work. At the moment I imagine they are negotiating the contract for the oil clean up work spraying dispersant off north-west Spain.

RE: Euromanx competes with BA

I didn’t realise EZY had stopped the LPL-LTN run.

Mongu – is there any news on whether Euromanx might start looking at brigning their flight operations in house with their own kit and crews? I have job hunting friends who would be keen to get a foot in the door.

RE: Sheffield City

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-11-02 AT 10:26 PM (GMT)]I spoke to SkyCruiser on the phone today and he plans to respond to this when he gets back from his flight today. A good friend of his was ‘guaranteed’ he would get a job after training with Cabair, needless to say he is still looking now. I really hated to put a downer on your plans but I felt I must warn you about the real situation out there. On that note, there are so many CPL’s out there with no jobs that just about all the instructor vacancies have now gone as people try to keep current for the upturn in the market, when it eventually happens. I strongly recommend that you start monitoring the wannabees forum on http://www.pprune.org to get a feel for the current climate in commercial aviation.
You say in your post you would be prepared to fly for anyone, anywhere to get a start. Well the regrettable truth is you stand very little chance of getting a job with anyone, anywhere when you come out of Cranfield/Oxford with about 200 hours and no practical experience. Go ahead with the training BUT you must budget for several years of hours building and IR renewals before you are likely to earn a low paid job in a remote part of the country.
I know this seems really harsh but I hate to think of you spending all that cash without knowing the truth about the current job hunting market.

Regards
Ian

PS If you can get onto that BA cadetship that is probably your best chance of succeeding.