teach is attitude; you have to
develop that on your own.
"If a pilot comes on this course
and they are very good at what
they do and present well and
work hard, Ben and I will make
recommendations for them
to operators," Marchant says.
"Likewise if a pilot does the course
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are stuck in the boonies and an
engineer interrogates you on
the phone about what might be
wrong, it's good if you don't refer
to everything as a "doohickey".
Knowing your aeroplane is that
little bit of extra professional polish
that could make the difference
between getting a job and not.
Later that afternoon I said
goodbye to Rafa as he walked
back out to LHL to complete his
LAHSO training, and made my
preparations for the nightly kero-
burner back to Melbourne, my
charter career over only four days
after it started.The upshot
The pool of good charter pilots
is getting smaller, and the reason
according to Marchant is that
f lying schools aren't preparing
CPLs well. The Flight Standards
course is supposed to fill the
gap, but even then, they won't
guarantee you a job with a charter
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"If you come on this course,
you still need to put your best
foot forward."
Thanks to Cameron, Ben and
the team at Flight Standards for
hosting the author in Darwin. Hitch
paid for his own f lights to and from
Darwin and accommodation.We got airborne and on-
track, f lying high over the South
Alligator River and onward
to Darwin. As we f lew I split
my time between trying to get
LHL trimmed and on song,
and desperately brushing up on
Darwin approach procedures.
Despite more weaving through
cloud build-up, I managed to keep
us relatively on track, helped by no
more changes of heart from "the
customer" or aircraft "failures."
Despite my atrocious landing
on the 60-metre wide runway
29 at Darwin, we had LHL tied
down early in the afternoon
with no interference from the
thunderstorms. In all we had
f lown more than 600 nm, and
although the trip may not have
represented a typical mission, it
covered a lot of the aspects that a
typical mission might have. That
was the point of it.
We finished off the course the
following day with an engineering
overview of the C210. If youPart of the course is an engineering overview of the C210.