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INTERVIEWER: Hello, everybody! I’m really happy to greet our new listeners today as well as our faithful audience. We continue to speak about different jobs and right now in our studio we have Nigel, a pilot in training. Hello, Nigel!
NIGEL: Hi! It’s great to be here!
INTERVIEWER: Thank you, Nigel. Well, first I’d like to find out how you came to be a pilot in training. And perhaps you could tell me something about what lies ahead for you.
NIGEL: Well, I grew up in a poor family in Manchester and I left school early. I wasted years before I realized that flying was what I wanted to do. From that moment on I worked really hard toward the day when I'd be a pilot flying domestic routes here in the UK. When I achieve that I'll be happy. I have no real ambition to make transatlantic flights and to fly any big time international routes.
INTERVIEWER: I guess that is an unusual background for a pilot. So, how did you get started?
NIGEL: First, I completed my high school education. While I was studying at school and at night I also started learning to fly. I had to work two jobs as well just to afford it. But I wanted a commercial pilot’s license and I would have run through a brick wall to get there. I had to allot two hundred fifty hours and all sorts of conditions, learn to do all the maneuvers and then do the written test. I then had to do a flight test.
INTERVIEWER: So, is that all you have to do to become a pilot?
NIGEL: Oh, no! You’re also need to do an instrument rating for your aircraft type
INTERVIEWER: What is that exactly?
NIGEL: An instrument rating is about showing that you can fly by instruments alone when the weather is really poor and you can’t see a thing. To do this you need to do ground training and then pass another flight test. I’m happy to say I've just gotten my rating last week. And besides you also need to pass a medical test to show that you fit to fly. Fortunately I've done that successfully too.
INTERVIEWER: And what’s left to do you before you can follow your dream, Nigel?
NIGEL: I still need to get experience. First, I’ve mainly flown single engine aircraft while I've been learning and I need to get some hours flying multiengine planes. The days of getting hired just because you’ve got a license are long gone. You know most successful pilot applicants, said major airlines, have thousands of hours of flight experience.
INTERVIEWER: So, is it just time in the air what they want?
NIGEL: Oh, no. There’s more, much more. The three main factors are the type of the aircraft that you’ve flown, the amount and complexity of flying you’ve done and which crew positions you’ve held. But regional or commuter airlines may not need as much. I’ll work for peanuts if that’s what it takes to get my first flying job. Of course there’s a lot of water to flow under the bridge before I get there. But I can say my training period has been really exciting. I've met lots of different people and learned so much.
INTERVIEWER: Well, Nigel, with the determination you have I’ve no doubts you are gonna make it as a pilot and I bet you end up doing exactly what you planned.
NIGEL: Thanks! I hope so.
INTERVIEWER: Hello, everybody! I’m really happy to greet our new listeners today as well as our faithful audience. We continue to speak about different jobs and right now in our studio we have Nigel, a pilot in training. Hello, Nigel!
NIGEL: Hi! It’s great to be here!
INTERVIEWER: Thank you, Nigel. Well, first I’d like to find out how you came to be a pilot in training. And perhaps you could tell me something about what lies ahead for you.
NIGEL: Well, I grew up in a poor family in Manchester and I left school early. I wasted years before I realized that flying was what I wanted to do. From that moment on I worked really hard toward the day when I'd be a pilot flying domestic routes here in the UK. When I achieve that I'll be happy. I have no real ambition to make transatlantic flights and to fly any big time international routes.
INTERVIEWER: I guess that is an unusual background for a pilot. So, how did you get started?
NIGEL: First, I completed my high school education. While I was studying at school and at night I also started learning to fly. I had to work two jobs as well just to afford it. But I wanted a commercial pilot’s license and I would have run through a brick wall to get there. I had to allot two hundred fifty hours and all sorts of conditions, learn to do all the maneuvers and then do the written test. I then had to do a flight test.
INTERVIEWER: So, is that all you have to do to become a pilot?
NIGEL: Oh, no! You’re also need to do an instrument rating for your aircraft type
INTERVIEWER: What is that exactly?
NIGEL: An instrument rating is about showing that you can fly by instruments alone when the weather is really poor and you can’t see a thing. To do this you need to do ground training and then pass another flight test. I’m happy to say I've just gotten my rating last week. And besides you also need to pass a medical test to show that you fit to fly. Fortunately I've done that successfully too.
INTERVIEWER: And what’s left to do you before you can follow your dream, Nigel?
NIGEL: I still need to get experience. First, I’ve mainly flown single engine aircraft while I've been learning and I need to get some hours flying multiengine planes. The days of getting hired just because you’ve got a license are long gone. You know most successful pilot applicants, said major airlines, have thousands of hours of flight experience.
INTERVIEWER: So, is it just time in the air what they want?
NIGEL: Oh, no. There’s more, much more. The three main factors are the type of the aircraft that you’ve flown, the amount and complexity of flying you’ve done and which crew positions you’ve held. But regional or commuter airlines may not need as much. I’ll work for peanuts if that’s what it takes to get my first flying job. Of course there’s a lot of water to flow under the bridge before I get there. But I can say my training period has been really exciting. I've met lots of different people and learned so much.
INTERVIEWER: Well, Nigel, with the determination you have I’ve no doubts you are gonna make it as a pilot and I bet you end up doing exactly what you planned.
NIGEL: Thanks! I hope so.
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