In this issue:

• From Passenger to Pilot – My Pilot Training Journey
• Skyward Express Dash 8 Crash Landed After Gear Collapse in Kenya
• UPS Boeing 747-8 Returns to Hong Kong After Engine Fire
• 40 Hours Inside a B747! National Airlines Cargo Mission
• Video: I am Finally a Pilot! My Entire Pilot Training Journey + Tips

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From Passenger to Pilot – My Pilot Training Journey

Last week, I finally passed my Private Pilot checkride. Something that I never believed I would be able to achieve. It almost feels unreal to think that I am now a pilot!

Throughout the years, I have often been asked:

You love aviation so much, why don't you become a pilot ?

The truth is, I never believed I could become a pilot!

There were many factors at play, any one of which would make me put my dream of becoming a pilot on hold. I fully admit that I am not a technical person, just the thought of piloting a plane always seemed way beyond me; I had very little confidence in my physical ability to fly a plane. I have pretty bad hand to eye coordination, I am not used to multi-tasking and I am overweight too, plus I was also always way too content with flying as a backseat passenger. So I never thought I would be able to become a pilot.

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Skyward Express Dash 8 Crash Landed After Gear Collapse in Kenya

Today a Skyward Express Dash 8-100 crash-landed after the left main gear collapsed at Elwak airport, Kenya. The 27.7-year-old aircraft, with registration 5Y-GRS performing a short passenger flight from Nairobi Wilson to Elwak (Kenya) with 37 passengers and 3 crew onboard, landed on Elwak’s gravel runway but suffered the collapse of the left main gear […]

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UPS Boeing 747-8 Returns to Hong Kong After Engine Fire

A United Parcel Service (UPS) Boeing 747-8 freighter returned to Hong Kong International airport, after an engine fire upon departure. According to the AvHerald, the 1.4 year old aircraft, with registration N624UP and performing flight 5X003 from Hong Kong to Dubai (United Arab Emirates), was climbing out of runway 07R when the crew received an […]

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40 Hours Inside a B747! National Airlines Cargo Mission

I was recently invited to join a humanitarian mission onboard a National Airlines B747 cargo plane, to deliver medical cargo aids to Pakistan and Nepal. It was an amazing thrill to fly on the Boeing 747 into Kathmandu, which is well known as a difficult airport to land into. It was also a new experience […]

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Video: I am Finally a Pilot! My Entire Pilot Training Journey + Tips

Last week, I finally passed my Private Pilot Checkride so I am officially a pilot now!

But I never believed I could become a pilot! I am not a technical person, just the thought of piloting a plane always seemed way beyond me; I had very little confidence in my physical ability to fly a plane plus I was way too content with flying as a backseat passenger.

In this video, I am going to share with you my entire Pilot training journey and how things have changed since I started flying.

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