Well Ladies and Gents, it's been a while since our last update so we thought it was about time we let you know about our latest goings on.
We'll start with the big news from today. It seems that we will be leaving Auckland a lot sooner than we thought. We were all called in for an urgent meeting (some of us were in the air at the time and got a 'land now' radio call) so we knew something important was brewing. It seems that there is a problem with the lease renewal on our accomodation so the decision has been made to move to Hamilton sooner rather than later.
'How soon??' We hear you ask....
3 weeks and counting is the answer! The weekend of the 8th and 9th of October has been set in stone as the big move days so we don't have too long to get ourselves organised. Hopefully there won't be too many teething problems although we all reckon there will be some. For starters, there is going to be an instructor shortage as they got as much notice as we did! We are moving into new 'Halls of Residence' type accomodation which will ruin our (in)famous meal times a bit as we will be sharing cooking facilities with another 14 or so people!
On the flying front we are all getting on at a decent rate with the short course Scots just about ready for their New Zealand PPL tests. Hopefully they will be finished in the next week or so. The Long Course Losers...I mean Legends (guess who's writing this!) are not too far behind so hopefully they will get them finished before the big move.
The other business news is that we have finally been given rostered days off. Now we know a month the days we will definately not be flying so hopefully it'll give us the opportunity to organise some sort of road trip. Stayed tuned for details.
On the rumour front, some members of the course have apparently joined 'Ray's Gym'. Now surely that has nothing to do with a newfound love interest and the need to shed those love handles??
Well folks we can't think of anything else to add, 'Friends' is just starting and our own Gordon Ramsey (aka Nik) is preparing another culinary delight so it's time to sign off.
Don't be shy now folks and give us some comments as we get bored of talking to each other all the time.
Hi Guys... I am still reading, for one!
Hope it´s all going well. I´m working away here in Jerez, and am just in the middle of my "half way" progress tests for Phase I groundschool. Knocked Met, AGK Electrics, AGK Systems, General Nav, Radio Nav, and Instruments on the head, but have got AGK Engines (OK...), Mass and Bal (OK...) and POF (noooooooo) next week, so almost there. Results so far still OK, but worried that POF may ruin my average (currently desperately grasping on to a 95)
Only 109 days to go until I get flying, which is nice! Very jealous of reading all about your flights. I did get to go out on to the apron today and wander round Michael Schumacher´s private jet... and very nice it was too. I´ll put some photos on my website at some point.
No more news I don´t think, so I´ll sign off, and get back to the revision.
Keep it up, and see you all soon!
HB
Posted by: Henry B | September 16, 2004 at 07:22 PM
So whats this i hear bout my bro. being deported?!! is his cooking really that bad?!!
So hamilton eh...no idea where it is but im sure ill see it on my trip out there next year. This is only the second time ive been on the webpage (sorry) and i must say its fairly good, will have to log on some more times, even though it makes me extremely jealous as its raining here again and my lectures start on monday :(
anyways enjoy guys, Sarah
Posted by: Sarah | September 22, 2004 at 07:10 PM