Thanks for following my progress

Thanks very much for enjoying my Blog and sending back nice comments (mostly) about the content.

Having just come back from a great 3 week holiday to the USA I am settling down to apply for another flying job. If you have any leads please do let me know!!

I've really enjoyed writing the blog, fortunately for you you'll be glad to know I took hundreds of more photos that were far too boring to see the light of day.

In due course, I will be able to start blogging again as I continue to gain hours until the issuing of my Full ATPL license, by which time, I'll have to move to a new blog! Only another 900 hours to go.....

Cheers

Richard

A lovely rainbow taken from the Newcastle Control Tower.

Visit to Newcastle ATC Tower

Zoe, the other CTC Cadet up in Newcastle lived with an Air Traffic Controller in the tower. Kindly she arranged a visit for both of us. We just missed an exciting go-around just before we got there. Apparently a turbo-prop floated down the runway almost to the end without getting the wheels on to the ground, and reluctantly decided to go around! While we were there nothing too exciting happened.

The tower is due to move to a new, modern and really tall tower much like the new one in Edinburgh (Photo). However, the existing one, is more unmodernised - using a lot of paper and binoculars and even CCTV camera to see around the airport.

We also visited the Radar room, where they control traffic in and out of the Controlled airspace around Newcastle. On take-off the tower hand you over to radar, and vice-versa, we speak to Radar first and when established on approach we move onto the tower frequency.