It's been exactly 2 weeks since my application was submitted to the CAA for my Permission For Aerial Work (PFAW). To say I'm getting impatient would be an understatement. I really want to start tendering for work knowing that I have the full weight of my qualifications and the law behind me. I really wish it would hurry up, but I guess the CAA are getting pretty busy with applications. Until I get it, or know when I'm likely to, I can't really plan for anything which is fr

OK, so you've probably heard me mention Operational "this", Operational "that" in previous posts and blog entries and you may be wondering what it's all about. Well today I really found out 'What it's all about' when I had to complete a simulated 'job' for a 'simulated client'. This Ladies and Gentlemen is called an Operational Evaluation. It is a quite intense skills test and you are judged on your Flight Planning, Pre Flight Briefing, Site and Risk Assessments before you