King “Fisher”

This is a photo a few flight attendants from KingFisher Airlines, flying mainly out of London and the United Kingdom. King Fisher, at the beginning of the year, had a problem with a delay of payment to the increasingly agitated pilots working for them. I wanted to show this picture because I wanted to bring up a common question. “Who do I work for and where will I work when I start my career in Aviation?” I mean, what pilot does not think of these questions at least once in their journey of becoming a pilot? Again, I am not posting this picture because I want to discourage people from working for KingFisher, I just wanted to give some sort of an idea of what kind of company you could be working with some day. This could mean that you may be working as a flight attendant, international airline pilot in a four man crew, taxiing planes, air trafficker, control tower manager, aerial photography, crop duster (not like in high school hallways), or whatever you choose to be! My direct goal after college is to be a captain in a four man crew flying large airliner planes! I think that would be absolutely amazing. There was one more thing that I was getting from this picture. I was noticing the uniforms. I don’t know about you but I think there is some sort of an uplifting feeling of being all dressed up in uniform. Your posture and attitude change completely once you get that uniform on. I am pretty excited for the day that I get my “wings” and the loops on my shoulders of being a true certified pilot!

“Run”way

This post by Dorothy Adele caught my eye. St. Barths’ runway is 2,133 feet long. It is one of the shortest runways in the world. This is the third most dangerous runway in the world. St. Barths’ is in the Carribbean Islands. Now, for any beginner pilot this would look absolutely horrific, am I wrong? I mean look how short that runways is! Okay, now let me tell you this. Dont, Be, Nervous! With anything, not only when you are flying, training, or having a career in Aviation, but you should never get nervous or scared. Take it with baby steps. Start off on a local airport and work your way up the “difficulty” ladder. Once you have mastered the one you are working on, then move up to a more difficult area of flight. There should never  be a moment in your flight where you either A, don’t know what you are doing, or B, you don’t know what to do in the situation you are in. If this is the case which I sure hope this will never be the case, but if it has become an issue then you either had a horrible instructor or you were given your license too soon without enough experience. You should always be confident in yourself and with your aircraft before EVERY flight you takeoff in!

Cool Video

I thought this was a really Cool Video! This video not only gives you a neat perspective of many different airlines, but also gives you a little information about a few of the airlines that do business around the world. One piece of information that this video gives you is that Delta Airlines is the largest airline company, to this day! Some day I would like to fly for commercially and possibly, internationally, but hopefully that isn’t just a pipe dream! Time and hard work will tell. Also, this video tells us that Asiana Airlines was thee best airline back in twenty ten. I am pretty sure that if you had the best airline in the world, you would feel pretty proud of yourself! Especially if it is put in a video to music like this video plays! To own my own airport or airline would be absolutely a dream come true! I definitely need/want to get quite a few years of piloting under my belt before that happens but some day I would love to own my own airline company! Though, the experience of piloting is my most important goal at this point. Just being in the air and living life, free as a bird, now isn’t that everybody’s dream? You would certainly think so. It is just the best feeling in the world taking off for the first time, looking over the horizon while sun sets on empty blue skies. Now THAT is nothing that can be beat!