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My grandmother was just like any other Mediterranean grandmother of every person who happens to have one.  She would get me to do jobs for her, but continue throughout to instruct me on how to do it.  It didn’t matter what it was, changing the gas bottle in the kitchen, painting...

The Australian Aviation game is a funny old business…  The vastness of the country-continents’ geography, the way it is demographically laid out with 95% of the population distributed around the coastal edges and the massive desert in the middle, has created an air-travel...

Let me introduce to you Mahmood, who came to me as an Apprentice Mechanic around 20 years ago in Gulf Air Bahrain.  He absolved an aviation school in Jordan, did the “equivalent” module Basics there and was issued a “basic” License under Jordanian regulations.

The...

I am so happy right now, because if you are reading this, it means that you have made that first MASSIVE step already to transition from Engineer to Instructor.

I want to make it clear, that you don’t have to kiss your License goodbye, there are plenty of ways in which you can combine...