Shimoda Pilot

Pregnant again! Minor miracle baby no.2! I'm not sure that I subscribe to the idea that there is a perfect time to get pregnant, but it always happens at the perfect time. For us, this time, it happened literally 2 weeks after being told it would be very difficult, and at a time when it was the last thing on our agenda. Bella had just set up her childminding business and we were hell bent on getting me on an 18month integrated training course. Be obstinate about your destina

The home leg from Swanwick feels longer than the outbound. I'm not typically emotional, in the sense that I'm not in control of them, they swing dramatically or have a hair trigger (apart from post childbirth). I am though, generally, quite aware of my emotional state. On this afternoon I remember having difficulty placing them. I was caught out by the situation, I only imagined feeling elation or despair - I found myself in a surprisingly flat dead centre of that scale. Duri

The first time I stepped through the doors of Cambrian flying club, I was accosted at the threshold by one of the many enthusiastic eccentrics I have previously mentioned. I was there for my first ground school lesson "So you wanna be a pilot is it boy" - a local to the area. "Yep, like nothing else" "Well have you done your medical boy? you gotta get your medical sorted first see". He was probably right. I'd definitely recommend getting it done before you start pretending t

Initially, i'd planned on starting this blog after I have raised the funds, and have commenced training full-time. Whatever route I took, I thought i'd write about it - reading other training pilots blogs has really helped me understand the challenges I am inevitably going to face. What is less documented however, are the challenges you will face just getting to the start line. After nearly three years of scheming, planning, re-planning, learning, disappointments, knockbacks