Pilot Pete,
I know the feeling mate, I also got very lucky and started my first airline job at the start of this year after graduating from one of the very costly "give us all your money and your first born child" flying schools.
On the Boeing 737 now and words alone just cannot fully describe how awsome it feels to take control of an airliner for the first time!! Not to mention flying on line for real. I also agree with you and just to just tell everyone else, that it is DEFINITELY worth every effort with blood sweat and tears to jump through the CAA's hoops to get that CPL IR and Frozen ATPL to get you on the starting track. I feel nothing but Passion for this job and career and if anyone else feels the same way and wants it bad enough, I believe it will happen in the end. One day it all pays off
I will love this job for LIFE....
Well done Pilot Pete.
[This message has been edited by QNH1013 (edited 27 May 2001).]