March 2012. I leave my hometown to fulfill my dream of becoming a pilot and maybe one day come back home.
Today, 12 years and 7 jobs later I brought the first aircraft of our newly opened base.
Doing what you love while being with your loved ones. That’s the whole point 🏡👨✈️✈️
10 years ago we met as cabin crew in Mallorca. Today I heard her voice on the radio and had to ask, it was her.
We landed right after each other, in the other part of Europe, working for another airline, 10 years after.
She’s a captain now, a good friend, and she made my day 🤩
It’s been a good run 😁
🗓️ 1y 10m 17d
✈️ 580 flights
⏱️ 1369 hours in the air
📏~ 460.000Km
1,2x Earth to Moon 🌗〰️🛫〰️〰️🌍
11,5x around Earth 🗺️💫
No flying for the next 2 months. Next time I’ll be flying from home 🏡😁
New airline, new base, same aircraft🫡
▪️ADRIA AIRWAYS▪️
✈ As I step out of the cockpit, I look back and take a last glance at it. Here is where it all started, this airline gave me my first chance, my first job as an airline pilot. I learned how to fly a masterpiece of an aircraft.
✈️ BACK IN BUSINESS👨✈️
It’s been two long years and two hard setbacks: lost my job to an airline bankruptcy, got another job and lost it due to covid.
Finally, the long wait has finished, I’m back into a pilot seat!
This time on an
#Airbus
Alicante, as seen from 37,000 feet
This is my hometown, the only chance to fly over it from my base is on our way to Málaga (not so common).
This is a special moment. It will last just a few seconds, but it will be so much worth it.
As a kid I remember falling asleep to the…
✈ Night flying; background radio chatter, smell of coffee, red eyes and a vast ocean of darkness in front of you.
An interesting thought that comes to mind in this moments of peace up above and it fits perfectly today’s
#EarthDay
🌎👇
2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣, my first year as an airline pilot.
I was only active from March to September, but here it is 👇
✈️ 291 Flights
⏱ 362 Flight hours
🌍 169.672 Km / 91.342 Nautic Miles
📍 32 airports visited in
🇺🇳 24 countries
🐌 4:25h was the longest flight and
🚀 0:16h the shortest
And we kiss the runway for the last time.
A smooth approach and landing puts an end to it. As always, we bring our passengers home, safely. But this time it feels different...
NEW BRAKES / OLD BRAKES
Here you can tell the difference between worn brake pads and brand new.
Not only the color 😅 but this little tube is an indicator of how much is left on the pad. You can see it’s full on the left and almost nothing on the right.
Challenging evening yesterday in Barcelona 🌩️✈️
Great pilot-controller teamwork; flexibility on their side, exchange of information and good CRM to help out others coming behind 🤝
🚨 LINE TRAINING FINISHED 🚨
And finished by ticking one off from my bucket list, Barcelona ✅😍
42 flights ✈️
17 airports 🛫
82 flight hours ⏱
47.250km ~ 1,2x round the Earth 🌍
Welcome aboard!
Follow me as I share my first steps as an Airline Pilot 👨✈️
After years of working and studying hard, I got my pilot licenses and applied for a job in an airline. The Type Rating course is the first step in my airline career ✈️🤞
⬇️THREAD⬇️
Today marks one year since my last flight. And for many of my colleagues it was their last flight, ever.
The airline collapsed and dragged down with it a great crew with a ton of experience, ending some of their careers for good. A legacy carrier that belonged to another era.
👇
So, this is home now. It felt really good to be back into a flight deck and raise the nose of an 80t machine into the air.
Probably killed hundreds of bugs in the process, but it still felt good 👨✈️😅
✈️ That is some huge direct 🗺️
A direct route over 5 countries 🇩🇪🇨🇿🇸🇰🇭🇺🇷🇴
👉 What’s the biggest direct you have ever been given? (In continental airspace I should say)🙃
As we start our descent, the sun rises over the Balkan skies, calm as ever.
We can’t talk to each other, gutted.
“Gear down”, we feel this could be our last landing in Ljubljana.
“Adria 727, Cleared to land runway 30, wind calm”
50,40,30-Thrust idle-20,10-Flare...
We knew this could end like this. It was not a surprise. We knew this could be our last flight.
I never mentioned it or said it explicitly, but as many of you guessed, I was working for Adria Airways
Initiating the approach for runway 34 in Corfu 🇬🇷
One of the most beautiful I’ve ever done. Flying below the crest of a cliff, low clouds hanging off it, sunset lights 👌🌅
Even though I’m not flying. I still have a ton of material, prepared threads, pics and so on. I’ll be up in the air soon enough, so let’s keep this thing going 💪🙌😁
Stay tuned, tomorrow I’ll get back to
#ThreadThursday
🛩
In order to perform any kind of flight, pilots gather all relevant information affecting that flight.
Airline pilots are no different, so let’s prepare a flight
LJUBLJANA - BRUSSELS
in this
⬇️ THREAD ⬇️
Summer season means weather avoiding in central Europe 🇪🇺🏔
All “eyes” on deck trying to find holes in between those supercells to make it through ⛈🛩👨✈️