1 Week Done....

With jetlag still around, it has been a very tiring and eventful week. After arriving on Saturday sleep was required for the rest of the weekend and the Monday we had off. Over the last week as well as working we have began to explore Hamilton; we have visited 'The Base' (our local shopping mall), some of our local shops, our training centre, and more importantly the golf course for the CP106 NZ Championships.

We had 4 days in the training centre this week, we have already done a differences exam which highlights the differences between the UK and NZ syllabus and on Monday its our Air Law exam. The Air Law was a 300-odd slide PowerPoint crammed into 2 days so there was a lot to take in. Luckily we have a free hot drinks machine at the centre, which has been visited a lot of times this week to help keep us awake. After we have done the air law exam, we are in on Tuesday and Wednesday for some more introductions and then we are free and ready to fly.

Outside of NZ groundschool, 3 of us have already started the NZ golf competition and I'm pleased to say that I won the first round. Winning was however short-lived as I came second in our re-visit to Lochiel Golf Course, but the next round is proabably going to be tomorrow, so lets hope I can take the lead again. It is really good out here, we have access to 2 courses for our 8 months stay out here for just $200NZD (about £110), and they are both near the airport so you just get all the cadets flying overhead all the time.

Anyway, I will report next week with the result of the Air Law exam and may even be able to tell you about my first flight.

Oh, my internet is still not working in my room so I will try and get some pictures up as soon as.

New Zealand!!!

So, after a 27 hour flight and about half a dozen plane meals, CP106 has arrived in Hamilton, New Zealand. We arrived here around 13:00 on saturday (2am UK time) and have moved into the Knox St. apartments. There are 7 off our course at Knox, 2 on the bottom floor and 5 on the top. We have already been told to expect a move to Clearways (the other main accommodation) within the next month or so, as CTC are getting rid of Knox St. and they have built another block at Clearways.

The flight itself didn't go as slow as I was expecting it too, there was a ton of movies and a lot of my time was spent sleeping and looking at the cameras on the A380 giving you an outside view of the aircraft.

While we were en-route at Melbourne airport, we received the emails about our module 2 results, and I am pleased to say that I have passed all my 14 ATPL examinations with an average of 97%. 

I will keep blogging as the week goes on by. Sorry for no photos, but I can't get any internet in my room at the moment.

Jack