Elected member of our local Parish Council and current Vice Chairman. Experience in budgeting, forecasting, negotiation, and charing meetings when required along with talking to local residents, local, district and county councillors and members of Parliament.

Experienced Senior First Officer operating the B787-9 including acting as pilot in command whilst the aircraft commander is on crew rest. Operated during the Covid19 pandemic using the B787-9 as a ‘freighter’ aircraft carrying essential supplies and equipment around the world.

Experience gained in worldwide flight operations with both passenger and freighter operations on both the Boeing 777-200LR and -300ER.Inc. ETOPS, MNPS and polar operations, high altitude airports (Quito, Ecuador). Multi national working culture. Lived in Doha, Qatar during this role.

Experienced Senior First Officer flying the Boeing 737NG and Boeing 737 ClassicExperienced in:Royal Mail freight operation in the Boeing 737-300 Quick Change aircraft.Category C airfield qualification including Chambery and Funchal.Use of Tango 9 MNPS oceanic routes to the Canary Islands and Western Europe.Flights to Northern Europe (Lapland) during the winter months - Winter operations - cold temperature operations/ deicing etc.Volunteered on days off to help out Jet2.com in pilot recruitment which involved monitoring group exercise and talking to prospective candidates.Year 2011 - Suffered an engine failure on departure as pilot flying in the B737-800, successful engine shutdown and single engine landing carried out.

First Officer flying the Boeing 737-600 and Boeing 737-700 to holiday destinations including extensive use of Tango 9 and Tango 16 MNPS routes. Changed airlines fairly quickly due to uncertainty in the company at the time.

Flew the Boeing 737-800 on quick turnaround routes, multi sector days - sometimes 6 sectors, often 4 sectors to many of the smaller airfields around Europe which included lots of non-precision approaches and procedural flying. Employed on the Brookfield Contract scheme.Ryanair Cadet First Officer Type Rating carried out at CAE Amsterdam.

Self employed flying instructing teaching the JAA PPL syllabus to students including groundschool along with trial and air experience flights.Based at Sheffield City Airport and later Netherthorpe Airfield (one of the shortest licensed grass airfields in the UK).