FSF Week and I've arrived in America!!

After all the excitement of receiving EASA results, we still had another week of lessons in school before we could jet off. This is Flight Safety Fundamentals and in it we go through some basic procedures of flight, rules and accommodation information for Phoenix and teamwork exercises (these were easy as we’re such a small course and are all pretty close now).

We were also introduced to the Buck’s University degree that we are doing, it’s a BSc in Airline Transport Management and we had some lectures on the topics and were set our first few assignments to keep us busy in Arizona. While I’m not a fan of doing more studying, the subject is relevant to the airline industry and it can never hurt to do more research, I’m seeing potential topics to talk about during the interview.

This week was pretty chilled out though compared to normal ground school, it was a bit of fun and we were pretty excited as we received our information packs, plane tickets and headphones to take out to America with us.

Bring on the next stage of the adventure (after a week at home to catch up with family and friends and recuperate our energy)!

The day finally arrived on Friday 20^th March, I got up early to get the train to London, the tube to Heathrow, meet up with my classmates, check in to find we weren’t sitting together (this was rectified as we got to the gate and asked to switch seats). We were flying BA on a 747 for a 10 hour flight to Phoenix, I couldn’t sleep a wink and we ended up talking most of the flight. We were lucky enough to be invited into the cockpit after landing and had a brief talk with the crew. After a 25 hour day (it took ages to get through customs) we were greeted by a driver who’d come to pick us up and taking us to the apartment complex where we’d be staying. We were in Serena Shores and requested a 3 people apartment to allow for the odd number on our course. Our other flatmate was due to arrive a few days later so we had time to get the place ready for him.

Home sweet home for the next 6 months, we have a huge living room, two bathrooms (mine is an en-suite!), a balcony and it even has walk-in wardrobe!