I have always had a passion for all things aviation, and started at a young age by building models and reading about aircraft. After my education I worked in the transport industry and rose to the position of operations manager. This allowed me to spend a lot of my spare time at airshows and around aircraft, in so doing I got to meet many of the pilots and got to fly in many airshows. I got to a point in my life where I decided to follow my passion and got a job as a base manager in Kuwait for National Airways Corporation on the United Nations contract for their mission in Iraq. I got to fly around Iraq in an Embraer 120 aircraft and the Bk 117 helecopters. From there I got a contract as a base manager/liason officer with Starlite Aviation in Bamako, Mali, where I was attached as the air-ops officer to the European Union Military Training Mission. There I operated three helecopters, a Bell 407, a Bk-117 and the As-330j Puma.