Well done all! I must find more time to fit in a flight now and then myself. I can't remember the last time I logged an official JHB flight?
Phil Fossil wrote:
Promotions get harder the higher up the ranks you go so it becomes increasingly rare to announce such events.I’m very pleased to say there is ample excuse for a celebration bash because I have three promotions to announce this week.*HILL, John, 199** promoted from** ATP Captain** to** Senior ATP Captain**.**STOPFORTH, Fred, 207** promoted from** Senior Commercial Captain** to** ATP Captain.**STACEY, John, 218** promoted from** Flight Officer** to** Captain.*First my congratulations to Mick for jumping off the bottom rung and moving up to Captain status – the first of many I hope.Fred has been plugging away at flights solidly over the last few months and has crossed the 500hr mark to promote him to ATP Captain. This is a well deserved promotion and I congratulate Fred on achieving this level.John Hill has taken a break from ATC but has not been idle, flying some long sectors in recent months. Having broken the 750hr barrier this promotes him to Senior ATP Captain and places him eighth in the JHB rankings. I doff my cap...Senior ATP Captain marks a plateau in the rankings because the next two levels to Master and Command ATP Captain require a huge jump in hours. In truth the Master ATP Captain rank was introduced late on in Noble Air because it was not anticipated that some pilots would ever break the 1000 hour barrier and the Command ATP Captain was only brought in after some Noble pilots broke through 3000 hours of flight. To put it into perspective the current 3500 hour requirement for Command ATP Captain would require a pilot to fly for 2.5 hours every night for nearly four years.Regardless of these high levels any promotion is well deserved as each is graduated so that your level of experience will have improved markedly from the previous level. I sincerely congratulate everyone who achieves a higher ranking..Now where did I put that tankard.. bones ___bones@xxxxxxxx <mailto:bones@xxxxxxx>
