As we in the northern hemisphere head into summer time, we often forget that the southern hemisphere is heading into winter. Last night at Charlotte’s pass in the Snowy Mountains, Australia a temperature of minus 13 celcious was recorded. This is the lowest temperature ever to be recorded in the Australian continent during the month of April. What happened to all the chat about global warming??

It’s been a while since I’ve updated my Etihad Cadet application process, but after the tests in London I was unsuccessful. There are rumours going around that only 9 people out of 600 picked for the tests got a “maybe”, that just shows you how hard the selection is, and quite right, so it should be!

Due to the economic turmoil at the moment Etihad Airways announced that they will be unable to conduct further cadet pilot assessments this year. They are therefore postponing the planned selections in New York, Toronto and Singapore until further notice.

I was impressed on test day at a very nice hotel in Windsor. The assesors, who are pilots themselves, gave a presentation at first, which just fuelled people’s appetitie for what was on offer! Was a perfect way to start the day and get the nerves settled and then fired up for the tests. The tests will remain a secret thats for sure, so don’t come asking!

I wish everyone applying for this the best of luck, and remember if you don’t get it, what ever you do, don’t give up!

Current conditions, are -1 Celcius and an ever increasing blanket of snow covers the ground.

After being unsuccessful with my latest airline sponsorship selection test (only 9 out of 600 got a “maybe”!) I sat down and looked at my facts and figures for the past 4 months and tried to work out exaclty how much it would take for me to possible raise the money to pay my own way through flying school. This has always been my target, but web developement has been something I have taught myself, and its taken a while to get to grips with the finer points on monetising and getting traffic.

A  quicklook at the stats:

20,000 impressions made me about £300. My target to pay for flying school is £60,000! So staying at the same kind of conversion rate as I’ve been experiencing over the past few months, it would take in the region of 4,000,000 impressions to generate the kind of income required! Obviously 6000 impressions a month isnt going to cut it, since it would take about 600 months at this rate to get my target!
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