An Aviationally Related Moment of Zen:
I’m terribly sorry, but I am away for the week and there will be a distinct lack of any kind of enthrallingly entertaining new profpilot content for the time being. However, you may exact your revenge with the image of me trying desperately to have a fun time on a beach, in Norfolk.
Aforementioned Norfolk Beach
However I have stumbled upon a video on my travels around the internet which you might find handy.
Okay, so the above image may well be a little misleading, as £400m losses are probably a deck chair off the Titanic that is BA’s bank account – but the fact they are the worst losses since privatisation in 1987 still stands.
Why am I writing this on what is a website mainly focussing on the truly thrilling world of flight training? Because results like this should be affecting the decisions made by commercial pilots in the making. If the airlines are making losses, and are showing negative growth across the board, they are certainly not going to be looking to hire fresh faced and bright eyed new pilots. Just look at my current CV record:
My one reply was rather blunt.
Why you would want to turn your fashionable credit card license into a turd brown JAA book is beyond me – perhaps you want to fly in Europe or something. Whatever the reason; here’s how to do it:
Mr/Ms American, there is good and bad news about converting your license from FAA to JAA. I’ll give you the bad news first; it’s a bit of a kerfuffle. After all, this is Europe & there is nothing we find more exciting and thrilling than a good bit of bureaucracy.
This is classed as pornography in some parts of Europe.
The good news is that we are far more awesome than America.
You’ve got a European JAA Licence, and you want to head over stateside to fly their planes covered in the FAA gunge instead.
Unfortunately, until the New World Order comes into force, all the countries in the world have their own rules and procedures in place for aviationally related activities in their country. You can imagine what that means to convert something between the bureaucratic powerhouses of Europe and the US.
Thankfully, help is at hand from the friendly folks at profpilot.co.uk. God, we’re awesome.
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Just saw this (”US plane crash lands on toilets“) on the BBC, thought it would make a most drole start to the profpilot articles section, as well as setting the tone. (more…)
