So about me… Well I'm 24 and have been flying since I was 17. I started flying when I was still at school, just for fun! I enjoyed it a lot but at that stage I wasn't really considering flying as a career.

Later it dawned on me that I really enjoyed the thrill and challenges of flying so perhaps I should try give professional flying a bash. So in March 2005 I went down to PE and completed my PPL then in December 2005 I completed my com and instrument rating.

After that I didn't really know what to do next so I ended up coming back to Jo'burg and working out of aviation for a while at the SPCA. Whilst I was doing this I managed to study and write my ATPL exams so at least I managed to get them out the way!

June 2006 I started working in operations at a flying school at Lanseria and completed my Grd III instructors rating just in time to get a job at the same school as an Instructor. I instructed there for almost a year and became a Grd II and Multi Engine instructor.

After that I joined a company called Fugro Airborne Surveys flying caravans and later on F406's (which is a little French twin turboprop), our job was to fly over an area with some fancy equipment and then some very clever people somehow figure out what's underground. I flew all over with Fugro including Namibia, Angola, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Niger and Madagascar.

Survey fling is very different becaus...
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