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Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 20 Sep 2010, 22:49
by DaveB
.. and retired at age 52 and a half.
You don't know how much that saddens me being 12months further down the line with no prospect of ever retiring :lol: Looking at it another way, I suppose I'm lucky I have a job (though one could hardly call what I do a 'job') ;)

ATB

DaveB B)smk

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 21 Sep 2010, 01:50
by airboatr
Is there going to be a test on this.. i sure hope it's open book :lol:

One thing i know for sure , One day William will be your King and no matter which seat he sits in .. He'll allways be King and never Co-King

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 21 Sep 2010, 20:42
by Jon.M
Thanks Peter,

I'll ask Alberto when I see him next but hadn't realised that he could be moving from being captain on 737s to being captain on Airbuses. He did say that the Airbus ticket covers 319, 320 and 321 with a shorter conversion required if they want him to go to the larger Airbuses.

As for retirement, I'm 51 and self-employed and given the state of my personal pension plan post dot-com bubble, bank crises and recession I think I'll be retiring at about the same time as Dave.

Jon

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010, 03:01
by airboatr
so William completed his first rescue mission.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ssion.html

His mother would be very proud no doubt.

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010, 07:44
by FlyTexas
He did good! :thumbsup:

Brian

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010, 08:11
by Garry Russell
Well.....he was a part of a crew that performed a rescue.

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010, 12:12
by airboatr
oh I'm sure when he is King the crew will be saying
"I was with the King on his first rescue mission".

:)

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010, 12:17
by Garry Russell
No doubt they will be :lol:

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010, 12:48
by Trev Clark
Spare a thought for Harry, he is currently a student AAC pilot, unless things have changed, that was the hardest rotary wing course in all three services.

Re: Well done, William!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010, 13:40
by airboatr
heard the turbulence was heavy during the mission.