So Happy !!!
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Hey Spooky, thanks for the update. Looks like life is going really well for you right now, enjoy the ride & congrats on fathering another child!
@Casey: One of the best things about living in Germany is the beer choices you have… yummy. I managed to get my mind off work again, will take a while
Uwe
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Very nice boy!
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Hé nice Spooky ! Well done ! All the best for the futur.
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Good luck buddy!!!:p
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Hey Spooky,
It sounds like you are having fun experiencing what I always considered the ultimate video game—a session at FlightSafety flying the level D simulators. Where else would you find yourself with one turning, one burning, on an approach to minimums and the tower calling you with “road apples on the runway, go around” at your missed approach point.
These sims are amazing at recreating what it is like to fly the real aircraft. Other than the lack of vertical axis “g’s” and the touch down characteristics, they are good enough to have you forget that you aren’t in the actual aircraft. It’s pretty cool that you can get type rated in an aircraft that you have never seen and that you might not even know how to open the door to get into.
You have seen that the training sessions do not get too far along before things start going haywire. Just when you think nothing else can go wrong, it does. What amazes me is that I have at home a PC loaded with BMS software, a few bolt ons like a TM Cougar and Track IR, that gives me the fidelity and immersion experience that rivals those level D sims that cost $$$$$$$.
Have fun in your flying career. There is nothing better than getting paid to do what you have a passion for.
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Hi guys!
time for an update on my status. I finished my type rating and the test is passed, i am now Dash8Q400 type rated !! which to me iss till unbelievable !!
I had time to go back home, enjoy my familly for a bit before i again travelled to another destination. i went to Morocco for 2 days, to do some Safety and rescue training.
I am back in ivory Coast right now and i stated doing my observation flights, my next step is doing circuits with the beast and after that starts my line training.
I have to say that the experience at flightsafety was one of the best in my life, but also a very challenging one. I mean, i just finished flight school in December 2014 and after flying a DA-44 piston airplane, i am being upgraded to a turbine airplane. It is a big step and everyone was kinda looking at me from far and wondering how i would make for te lack of experience and for the difference in speed etc etc.
I am the less experienced guy in the company, with the less amount of flight hours, but with the support of a great Captain who did the type rating with me it was managable. Studying is one thing, and flying an airplane is something else, i was grabing to everything i has in experience flying something, and it was the basics that helped me out, simple things like listening to the morse code after tuning etc etc.
Then came another challenge, doing observation flights, you sit on the jumpseat and the Captain that day decided to test me, and i had to do the radio … i was stressed but somehow got mback to myself after a couple of minutes.
Challenge mode is on, i’ll keep you updated guys.
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CONGRATS SPOOKY NICE OK AIRPLANE A LITTLE NOISY I HAVE BEEN A FLIGHT TEST ENGINEER WITH BOMBARDIER SINCE 08 AND GOT A FEW FLIGHTS IN AGAIN CONGRATS
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Great m8, really happy 4 u!
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Hello Guys !!
Time for an update with pictures this time:
It all started with this type of airplane.
The joy of flying was always there, no matter how hard it was besides the flying, Flying kept me alive.
Flight training was done, here i took this picture the first time ever i stepped foot in the Office of Air Cote d’Ivoire. I was waiting to meet the recruiting captain in order to hand him my resume over. i was very very anxious, i had no idea what to expect.
I then had to wait, run around and show that i was motivated before i could even get a chance to get called for the recruiting exams. It was a tough time, every time i had to meet someone i was 30 min early, nice shirt, tie, polished shoesand always, always positive and smiling, no matter what was going on around me. I had left Canada, no income, no job option and basically no plan B, it was a big gamble, the biggest of my life maybe, i had being told i was not really a choice due to a lot of issues going on in the airline industry.
But one day the call cam, all i coud do was cry.
Here, type rating in Toronto !
Type rating done ! Checkride passed !! Dash 8 Q400 Type rated.
The dream comes true now ….
Beautiful plane, i love those props !
On the picture you can see the tail of the Airbus 319 operated by Air Cote d’Ivoire too …. my next move right next to me in 3 to 4 years. You can also see the type of wheater we have right now. CAT 1 and sometimes CAT 2 weather.
Late Afternoon over the ivory Coast, heading to San Pedro !
Early morning over West Africa, going to Cotonou/ Benin.
Same passion, same smile, same motivation, same dedication and a bright future lies ahead …. it wasn’t obvious at all 1 year from now … when i look back, i still don’t know how i did it, but the odds were not with me for sure.
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Wish you all the best to your next steps m8!
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This is a great thread to read spooky, well done on all you have achieved so far, and all the best for what you will undoubtably achieve in the future
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Thank you very much Skipper
On my own it owuldn’t have been possible to achieve anything, i was also lucky enough that if i felt down i had someone to pick me up.