You get your Thomas Cook training for free! No costs at all! I would also like to become a airline pilot. I am good at all the subjects needed, English, Science, Maths and German/ French.

You are probably thinking of the CTCMcAlpine scheme which Thomas Cook sponsor. Go to their website http://www.ctcmcalpine.com and read through it properly. There are a certain amount of costs in the selection process alone. You will then need to find £60,000 to give to the airline and CTC as a deposit. This will eventually be repaid to you over a period of around 7 years, but try finding £60,000 in the first place.

Also, read through the selection process. Yes, it would be very nice. Something I’d very much like to do. But good luck is all I can say!

Don’t try microwaving an onion.

I think the current livery is great, much better. It’s totally original…….the blue and silver reminds me of a bad copy of V-Bird.

Jet Provosts can be nasty! I flew into the North Welad fly-in last year from Cambridge with a friend. We got out of our plane, just as a Jet Provost came taxiing past on the taxiway we were standing on. Even trying to block my ears, it was loud enough to leave them ringing for the next few days.

There is also a problem with passengers coming from places such as Suffolk. Although on the map, they would appear close together, it means having to go all the way to the M25 to get across the Thames estuary. Instead, passengers will probably decide to use Stansted. The means that their only real catchment area is Kent and possibly the Eastern areas of Sussex.

Saying this, who would have thought Ryanair would be so huge, less than a decade ago when they first opened their base at STN, the ‘carrot cruncher airport’.

I wouldn’t be able to give you any advice on Malev,but they now fly from Stansted and you’d be almost guaranteed to get atleast one flight in the Fokker70.

I got burnt! But I wasn’t spotting, I was gliding all day. Which also means a lot of standing around on an open runway.

Today up the tower it reached 30C for around an hour, remained at 29C for the rest of the time.

Maybe you weren’t aware of this Speedbird, so I will say just incase it makes more sense to you. At LHR you have Runways 09L/27R and 09R/27L. When the planes are using the 09 end, 09L is nearly always used for landing all day (I have seen 2 aircraft ever land on 09R) with 09R therefore being used for take-offs.

If they’re on the 27 end, it is a bit different. Due to noise and environment restrictions and agreements etc (I’m guessing), they have to change over the runways at 3pm. Take-offs will occur on one runway, and landings on another. If planes take-off on 27L in morning and landings are on 27R, this will swap round at 3pm and visa versa. Due to the locations of spotting places and the runways, this makes take-offs hard to watch. As Mark said though, landings are much better 😉