There are days when this job delivers the most spectacular scenery. The photos don’t do it justice!

Interestingly it lasts for just a few minutes before the light changes again.

Alex 🇭🇲

Happy World Pilots Day.

Two fantastic aviators primed to deliver their passengers to destination.

#safetystartswith2 #worldpilotsday

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“World Pilot Day”. A good day to remind everyone of the benefits of two well trained and well rested pilots on the flight deck. #safetystartswith2 #worldpilotday

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Dangerous Idea: Removing Pilots from the Flight Deck safetystartswith2.com

Lest we forget!

Safety Bulletin from Aust. Pilots Assoc. Aviation Rescue and Firefighting Services (ARFFS) in Australia – Continuous Operation Under ICAO Remission Factor. Please read & distribute widely tinyurl.com/mr3de8z2 #safetybulletin #aviationsafety #pilots

A must read thread. What evil we humans perpetuate on each other.

I think as a species in this world we might have peaked and are now devolving instead of evolving.

I would have thought in the 21st century that this would be a more automated process.

Imagine that conversation at a BBQ though. What do you do for a living? ‘I film launches and recoveries on an aircraft carrier’.

For any crew in London on 26 April.

I feel like it should have been the Aussies to have done this, not the Brits!

It’s also up there with one of the wildest things I’ve read on X this week… which just goes to show how sedate I try to make my time on X!

This isn’t a HECS issue, it’s a ‘cost of becoming a commercial pilot’ issue! The cost is $150K. It has to be funded somehow. The initial pay is poor. And THIS is why smart young people no longer look at aviation as an attractive career! This is why we are short of pilots in Oz!

I detest with a passion the sensationalist language that calls the type of heavy rain events that Sydney semi-regularly gets a ‘rain bomb’. Well done to Anthony Sharwood ❄️ and the Weatherzone crew for fighting the good fight in terms of being less sensational in their reporting.

My Good Friday reminder that idiots walk amongst us. The Chemtrail conspiracy theorists do my head in!

You should try being aircrew who have to try and navigate this bun fight on a daily basis!

Hmmm. Shannon Wells when are you getting inked?

Sometimes the job has perks. Even if it comes off the back of an overnight flight and little sleep.

Last time in HNL for probably a few years as the 787 takes over the route from the A330 soon.

Alex 🇭🇲

If I suffer an extensive delay I specifically ask the pax to not take their frustrations out on the F/As and that I’ll be at the door when they disembarked if they want to vent.

Not a single pax has taken me on. Those that would have a shot at F/As but not me are cowards.

My fellow Aussies have a weird phobia about nuclear power! People forget that we’ve safely operated a nuclear reactor in Australia (in my area) since 1958!

We have expertise, we have the minerals, we just need the willpower.