I
loved the FIGHTER PILOT documentary on the BBC when that came out
- but soon found that I had to wear glasses, so being a fighter
pilot was out of the question. Perhaps, I thought, I would just
get a Private Pilots Licence when I was older...How did you get into British Airways?
I've always loved planes & flying - my Dad was in the RAF when I was little, I made AIRFIX kits, I went to airshows and all that.
I
loved the FIGHTER PILOT documentary on the BBC when that came out
- but soon found that I had to wear glasses, so being a fighter
pilot was out of the question. Perhaps, I thought, I would just
get a Private Pilots Licence when I was older...
I went gliding - first with the Scouts, and
then with Cambridge University Gliding Club. I got interested in
MAF (Missionary Aviation Fellowship) and wondered if I might work
for them one day. Then, when I was looking for a career which
would pay enough for me to learn to fly as well, I heard that
British Airways were training pilots again - and in a BA careers
brochure I spotted an address to write to...
Many interviews and tests later I was
accepted onto the Sponsored Pilot Training Scheme, with full sponsorship from BA. A couple of
weeks after finishing at Cambridge I started course CP118 at
Kidlington Airfield, just north of Oxford.
I officially joined BA in on 23rd November
1990, trained for the Boeing 737-200, and flew my first flight as
a qualified First Officer on 5th June 1991.