Not a problem driving chaps, although I didn’t make that many really, infact less than 1 per every 10 miles we drove (300) 😡 – and making more FlyBe’s at MAN than BHX really took the biscuit!

Was Mr Drummond the guy with the Scanner which appeared on the ATIS once or twice? :confused:

Not a bad day out all in all, although PMN ever so nearly blew his rag, whilst sat on the kerb at the BHX car park we had just paid £6.50 for – rather amusing for me and Tom!

I left school at 18 and can honestly say the best thing that happened to me was refusing to go onto any of these schemes.

I went from Ops Assistant, to running an outstation, to becoming a Duty Officer, running a large multi-type fleet within 2 and a half years – half because of a vast industry knowledge, and half willing to put the effort in. I’m shortly joining a large lo-co as a Controller.

Unfortunatly, even with ths degree you will have to start at the bottom of the scale, most likely as an assistant. The Croyden area is probably one of the best positioned areas of te country. Try small (such as BAC Express at Gatwick, or any other smaller operator – frustrating I can guarntee, but great fun). Here is where we all get the experience. You must be willing to travel for work as it is very unlikely to appear on your doorstep – this is aviation, and how many UK operators are local to you! (my first job was over 70 miles from home).

Don’t try to show that because you have a degree you can jump in (most handling agent staff learn as much on the job as Airline Ops Grads staff go into – this is meant as a complement, not a detrement to Handling bods), purely as you learn from the environment your working in.

For new starters you are just as likely sending speculative e-mails out to companies as finding anything from aviationjobsearch – Flight International will only advertise for Duty Officers / Controllers as this is the captive market, and so will most airlines websites.

If I can be of any use please drop us a PM. Personally I am very sceptical of these courses as or dispatch courses you will be trained by your employer, hostie courses the same, Ops the same, and they seem to be a bit of a scam or stop-gap solution – I certainly know my school pushed for course if you didn’t want uni, and know from first hand experaince it is hard to get that first “foot in the door”!

I spoke to somebody who was after aircraft for chartering aircraft to replicate the Miami Airport Cargo apron – I presume this is what the night work is all about!

Stunning mate – plenty of class in there, but I’d have to say I do like the way the BBMF have been put across a little differantly in Black and White, however can’t pick a favourite!

How did the Gamston shots come out?

I still don’t get this photography lark – why the hell do you need a lense that means you have to sit at the back of the cemetry to get a full frame shot! :confused:

On a serious note… I quite like some of the close up’s – a little differant!

To the south side head towards the AVP, but instead of turning off towards the romper pub keep heading straight on towards Macclesfield.

You will go under the tunnels which the runways run over. Here you will hit a roundabout. Take the first exit which runs to one of the security gates, but there is a lane on your right you can park on.

Walk back to the roundabout and cross over the road you have drove along. On the opposite side you will see a hill which is a marked footpath and has steps running up it. Follow these around the back of the fire station, down another valley which has the River running under the runway via a tunnel, and back up the otherside (all marked). From here you can walk along the footpath which is above the runway elevation. Walking time is 10-15 mins.

Hope its of use!

Any chance of de-coding this – whats W06, S07??? :confused:

W06 = Winter 20006
S07 = Summer 2007

Anyway, just to make you feel better Steve, after you failed spectacularly to keep the entire aircraft in the frame when you were pratting with my camera, here’s the last shot I took today. It was, of course, my full intention to get a dull, out of focus and utterly useless shot of the back end of this bmi Airbus.

Paul

But Paul my good friend, I don’t pretend I’m a Photographer whilst you and Benny were talking about Resizing, Cropping, Sigma’s and Canon’s I mearly thought you were talking about restructuring the church or something! :dev2:

I thought once I’d “cropped, resized and altered the levels” I’d have had a darn good nose shot, well at least I thought that was what you lot did when you missed the back end off!!! :diablo:

Anyway, where’s my invite for Friday? Lost in the post? 😮 😉 :rolleyes: