Induction Day

So today this the day it all starts (Friday the 13th...), the last 5 months since I found out I had a place on the course have just flown by. Having moved into the hall of residence yesterday and meeting another 5 people from my course it was time to get started this morning at OAA.

The day started off with the usual meet & greet sessions with a chance to meet the rest of the course. There are 24 people on this course which makes it a fairly large one, with people split between the BA FPP scheme, the easyJet MPL scheme and some self funded students. After a quick health and safety brief it was then onto the bit of the day that everyone looks forward to, the uniform fitting. I managed a bit of a strange thing in that my all my uniform actually fitted without having to swap things around.

From there it was onto another room for a quick briefing then off to pick up the ground school books. We have 6 months to learn to content of these books and pass 14 exams in them, it's going to be a bit of a challenge to say the least! The pile of books is the length of my forearm and weighs about 20kg!

The ground school books - all 20kg of them!

It was then off to fill in a load of paperwork for the rest of the day with an early finish and told to enjoy what it likely to be our last relaxing weekend for the next 6 months! So now it's time to enjoy the weekend before the ground school starts for real on Monday. The first subjects we'll be tackling are Aircraft General Knowledge - Airframes, Systems & Instrumentation. Roll on Monday!