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Old 27th May 2010 | 02:18
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Bullethead
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G'day 757_wannabe,

I live on the other side of the planet to you and so don't really know what the employment scene is where you are but I can make a few general comments.

Aeros are fun though also hard work, any sort of advanced manouvre training will give you confidence in your ability to fly an aeroplane in all aspects of flight including recovery from unusual situations and so is valuable experience.

Make sure that when you do your aerobatics course that some sort of advanced manouvre training is included. I've just done a quick google search and there appear to be plenty of schools which can give you this sort of training.

I've been in an airline for over 20 years and we have to do unusual attitude recovery (UA) in the simulator, as a regulatory requirement, every so often. Aeros and UAs are something that simulators don't simulate very well at all and to my mind it's a bit farsical teaching and training this stuff in the sim. I have the advantage of having previously been in the RAAF for many years where UA recovery in a real aeroplane was a significant part of the training so anything like this you can do in an aeroplane will have a career long advantage.

Enjoy the ride,
BH.
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