Waiting for a job ...

I'm now in a weird period, when I get to wait a lot ... Waiting for the ENAC exams results, waiting for answers from the airlines... Waiting , waiting, waiting...
Pilot school is over, I'm a pilot, but an unemployed one, and sometimes it gets boring just to hope for answers or waiting for results.
So I hang out in the countryside, shooting pictures sometimes... trying to find something to keep my mind busy.
So maybe you'll be happy to learn that on the picture above is a "Muscari Comosum" or "Muscari à Toupet" in french. It's quite common here, but until now I had no idea that it was a "Muscari à Toupet" ^^ and that its bulb might be edible...
As you see, you can learn things when you get time of your own ... :-) I'd prefer a cockpit though ...

'Apocalypse now' in Saint-Tropez ...

This day, May 6th, there was a rehearsal of the '8th of May 1945 memorial day' in the Saint-tropez gulf. The actual event will take place on May 8th, same place with the presence of Nicolas Sarkosy, the French President.
There was some cool stuff to see there : a full naval squadron (about 15 warships) and some military aircraft too. I saw an Awacs, a Mirage2000, a Hawkeye, a Super Etandard, a Breguet Atlantique 2... Cool stuff ! There should be the 'Patrouille de France' too but I didn't see them today.
Here are the shots I took. Some picts are not in a very good quality as the warships were quite far away in the mist ... I added some pictures of nice yatchs in St-Tropez harbour as well ...

LFTZ shots again ...

Everything in the title ... No need to explain more than that !

LFTZ ...

As I was saying, I'm hanging out a lot around LFTZ, where there is some nice traffic ... I'm not always taking my camera with me, but when I do, I often come back with a few nice shots ! Here are my latest ones.

Back in the south

My pilot training is finished...
I'm back home in the south of France, looking for a job, hiking in the nice countryside, and preparing for the ENAC exam which would be the easier way of securing a good job as pilot in Air France for next year...
Near my parents place is LFTZ, nice small airport tucked in a valley. The traffic there is very nice due to the proximity with St-Tropez...which is THE jet-set vacation place on the french riviera.
Whenever I got some time, I usually hang out near that airport, shooting pictures of the traffic coming in and out, listening to the coms on my Icom, and breathing in that wonderfull JetA1 smell that I love so much !

MCC Beech 200 Training ...

MCC (Multi Crew Coordination) is the last part of the training ... We learn how to work with two pilots in the cockpit. It's not as simple as it might seem at first !
First of all, it's a much more complex aircraft than the ones we trained on previously : Super King Air 200 ; and it's a lot of work to learn new procedures and actions for that new plane in a small amount of time.
Secondly, we have been trained all along as mono-pilot ; Dispatching tasks in the cockpit and constantly checking the PF or PNF (Pilot Flying or Pilot Non Flying... i.e pilot or co-pilot) actions, all of a sudden, requires some time and training ...
I finished that training on March 16th, but my former flight partner finished it yesterday, so I went "backseating" the sim to shot some pictures.
The ones with the O2 mask on and googles are quite funny, we really looked like some nuclear specialists wandering in tchernobyl rubbles ... :-)
Enjoy the show !

"Rallye des routes du nord" rally.

This WE there was a rally near the place I live at. That was nice to see. Here are some of my best shots...