Off to Manchester to start a quick tour of a few different bases. The basic idea is to fly with some different Training Captains, and get used to some of the different airfields here in the UK. Newcastle is quite a small base, and doesn't really have much in the way of STARs (routes for arriving at airports) or SIDs (routes for departures). Plus it only has one long parallel taxyway so knowing where to taxy isn't too hard.
So off to MAN, where things are a bit different. Lots of aircraft, taxying routes, even different radio frequencies (x3) for starting engines, pushing back and taxying!
Anyway, I got to be PF (Pilot Flying) for the outbound sector and flew a nice manual departure up to about FL80 (8,000ft) using one of the departure SIDs to the south. The flight to Rimini was quite short (2h30) compared to most of flights, so this meant there wasn't too much time for questions from the Training Captain.
A nice ILS approach and a quick turnaround had us returning to Manchester nice and early. I was given the approach and landing, for extra practice, and managed a nice touchdown on R24R in MAN.
It was a nice days' flying, and has shown me that I can operate into the busier airports in the UK without too many problems!
Following on from my Type Rating, CPL/IR, and Hour Building Blogs I now progress through to actually working for a living as an airline pilot. Last summer I had a 6 month placement with MyTravel Airways in Newcastle; now I am fully employed by Monarch Airlines out of Birmingham Airport flying the A321.
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