[jhb] Re: Latest hours
- From: "Fossil" <fossil@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:34:21 +0100
Sept 2006
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bones
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From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Phil Reynolds
Sent: 05 October 2009 17:55
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Subject: [jhb] Re: Latest hours
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.
>
> IÂ?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 Â? 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>
>
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