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| Date | 24-06-2007 |
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| Message | (Sunday 2235) Another week over soon and tomorrow we start the last week of school before the summer holidays. Unfortunately we only have 3 weeks of holidays, but it's always better than nothing. We have a test in State Knowledge tomorrow. I feel wuite comfortable with the Danish political system, however I don't feel that strong in EU politics and it's relation to us. It's all quite complicatedand there are so many things to confuse. Anyway, I'll think I'll be ok in tomorrow's test. Now it's time to upload a few pictures from Aalborg airshow onto the picture gallery. Take care! /GEA |
| Date | 18-06-2007 |
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| Message | (Monday 2010) Another day almost over and sometimes it's good to simply stop and look back. The first year of two at the Officer Academy is almost over and it actually went much faster than I had expected. Sometimes the dream seems so distant and I suppose that's why it's important to look back once every while, and see how far you've come. I feel so greatful that I am where I am and so previlaged to be working with what I always dreamt of...with what many dream of yet most people never get the chance to give it a shot. It's funny because just 10 years ago, I could have never imagined myself living in Denmark, having a wonderful wife and child and doing the fighter-pilot training. I suppose life is more unpredictable than one can imagine. As you've probably noticed I have uploaded some more pictures from Aalborg airshow and believe me, there's many more on the way! There are also some pictures from TLP which need to be uploaded and those from Amsterdam, so there's plenty for the whole summer (and winter too!) so I'll try to keep uploading regularly. In about 4 weeks there's the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in the UK, which is a big airshow with many exotic aircraft from all over the world and this year, the USAF Thunderbirds will be participating which is unusual since they're not usually in Europe. Also it's the last chance to see the F117 Nighthawk as they'll be withdrawn from service later on this year. I hope I can make it over... /GEA |
| Date | 13-06-2007 |
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| Message | (Wednesday 0810) Back at school and I suppose I can tell you about yesterday's unusual assignment. The Air Force has a recruiting campaign going on and every year they make an event, where high-school students get the opportunity to take part in order to hear about their carreer opportunities in the Air Force. The thing is called "Stud-Luft" which can be losely translated to Student Flight. Every year the Air Force makes an advert, where they take pictures of some models wearing the AF uniform and then print the advert in all kinds of magazines and newspapers in order to draw the young people's attention. This year they decided to use 'real people' in the advert instead of models and I was one of the three "chosen" ones. It was quite en experience, I must say. First a stylist gave us Hollywood make up on and fixed our hair (not so much mine due to the lack of lenght) and then a photographer took the pictures. So now I suppose I can write "model" too on my CV. Back to business: Today and tomorrow we have the second part of the coaching course, which means that we'll finish at around 2200 tonight and then we'll be staying here at school for the night. That's it for now...stay tuned! /GEA |
| Date | 11-06-2007 |
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| Message | (Monday 2315) The airshow at Aalborg AB went great. The weather couldn't have been better and the new lens that I bought performed really well indeed! I have uploaded a teaser of 3 pictures in the gallery to give you an idea of what it was like. The rest of the pictures will be uploaded in batches as time goes by. As you probably know, the weather has been very hot lately. Today we had about 30 degrees and even right now, it's still very hot, which is kind of unusual for Denmark, but we're enjoying it while it lasts. School is as usual, however tomorrow I have a rather unusual assignment which I'll tell you about some other time...now I'm off to bed. /GEA |
| Date | 08-06-2007 |
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| Message | (Friday 1345) As you probably know we had the 8km rough terrain running exam today. On the initial test a few months ago I ran it on 46:30, so I decided that my goal would be 40 minutes for the exam. Unfortunately I've had a knee injury which has restricted me a bit lately, so I did not make my goal. I ran the 8km in 40:12 which was 12 seconds over...but that doesn't mean I'm not happy about it! I am satisfied with it especially considering that we ran in really hot weather today...about 25 degrees in the shade, so it was extra hard, but perhaps to my advantage because of my Southern genes? Who knows? Anyway, one of the best runners in class fainted during the exam so I hope he's ok now, as he was fetched by an ambulance. He runs extremely fast every time, always right on the limit of what the human body is capable of...and I suppose the extra hot weather today was just too much. There were a couple of other guys close to breaking down...those steep hills are real killers! Anyway, the exam is overwith and now I can just look forward to the airshow this weekend. I bought a new lens for the camera last Monday (the dream-lens actually!) It's a Canon 100-400mm L with image stabiliser so I can't wait to try it out! I leave to Aalborg tonight at about 1700 with another friend of mine, where we can look forward to at least 4 hours in the train. Anyway, that's it for now. Take care and stay in the shade! /GEA |
| Date | 01-06-2007 |
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| Message | (Friday 1310) Another week over and another weekend has just begun. I managed to give my trip to Norway to a collegue of mine, which means that next weekend I'll be going to Aalborg airshow instead of Norway. It's going to be a really good airshow. 5 foreign aerobatic teams will be present, including Frecce Tricolori and Patrouille De France among others. For more info about the airshow take a look at danishairshow.dk and click on Flying or Static display accordingly to see what's coming. Next Friday we have our exam in 8km off-terrain running and I feel in good shape except for my right knee which has been bugging me for a while now. This weekend I'll try to upload some pictures from my trip to the Netherlands and from TLP if I get time. I have quite alot of schoolwork to do, so there probably won't be any time for uploading pictures, but we'll see. Yesterday we had a briefing by 2 OCU pilots who are waiting for their turn to get converted to the F16. They told us about what Canada will be like and what to expect. It was quite motivating to hear about it and get reminded what it is we're working for. I cannot wait for my turn to get back to the flying business. The first year of Officer Academy is over soon and then we can almost start to see light at the end of the tunnel...hopefully it doesn't shine from a train's headlamp steaming at us at full speed... /GEA |
| Date | 24-05-2007 |
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| Message | (Thursday 2250) Yesterday we spent the whole day at Chrisitansborg, which is the Danish Parlament building, where we saw the politicians at work and had a meeting with a couple of members of parlament. It was a great day and it was really exciting to see the whole political system in action. After all we've had quite a few lessons in State-knowledge, so it was nice to see the whole thing in real life. Afterwards we visited the Ministry of Defence where we were briefed about the military happenings, mostly connected to the Air Force. In the evening I met up with a couple of friends at a bar in Copenhagen where we watched the Champions League final and had a few beers. It was a great ending to the day, as my team won... As I wrote before, today I flew over to Karup AB to take some pictures of the aircraft participating at the TLP exercise. Unfortunately the weather was terrible but I got a few shots anyway, which I'll try to upload later on tonight. It was neat to see Tornado F3's and GR4's, F16's and Mirage 2000's, about 30 aircraft in all, which took off with less than a minutes' separation. I was standing quite close to the runway so it was good that I had ear-plugs in my pocket. As you might have read, I'm going to the Netherlands tomorrow, where I'll be staying for the weekend to take some civlian aircraft pictures. The weather forecast promised terrible weather so that's just great! /GEA |
| Date | 15-05-2007 |
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| Message | (Tuesday 1055) We kicked the week off with running. Monday mornings and running are a bad cocktail, but anyway, we survived. This Thursday is a public holiday so we have a long weekend which I'll use on a family holiday to Germany. Then next week I'll be going to Karup AB on Thursday in order to take pictures of planes taking part in TLP. Then Friday I fly to Holland for civil spotting with some friends at Amsterdam airport. I just hope we get good weather for all of the above mentioned. The lesson is starting now, so I better get away from the computer. /GEA |
| Date | 12-05-2007 |
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| Message | (Saturday 1600) I was at Skrydstrup Ab Thursday, where I attended the yearly pilot union meeting for the first time. It was nice to hear about the union's agenda and plans. But apart from that it was great to be back at the base, hear some jet 'music,' smell some jet fuel and talk with the pilots and get updated on the latest happenings. At the moment, as you might know, there's a bunch of USAF F15C's at Aalborg AB which will be taking part in an exercise called Noble Award. However, in the meantime before the exercise starts, they're practsing against the RDAF F16's and German Tornados and it was nice to hear that our guys have been kicking some serious butts. Anyway, Friday morning before we drove back home, we went to the end of the runway to see some jets take off and afterwards we went to the F16 simulator and "flew" for about 20 minutes each - it was great! Sometimes I have to remind myself what it is I'm fighting for and why I am working so hard...and that's basically all it takes to get me motivated again and get my flame burning. I really look forward to Canada and hopefully the life as fighter pilot afterwards. As you know, there's six of us going to Canada next year but only 5 will be given the fighter slot and the last will be given a transport slot. Now I better get back to my home work. I have an assignment in State knowledge among other things which I have to finish today. Stay tuned. /GEA |
| Date | 07-05-2007 |
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| Message | (Monday 1335) Sitting between lessons. Today we have 4 hours of State Knowledge in all and that's ok as it's really my favorite subject. At the moment we're learning about Denmark within the EU. We have to write an assignment in the subject soon so we're all busy acquiring information for that. We got some sudden news last week. As you probably know, 3 of us will be going to Canada this year for the fighter training and the 9 rest will go next year. Apparently the agreement was only an oral one and NFTC (the school in Canada) has now informed the RDAF that they want 6 students this year, and 6 next year. So 3 of us suddenly have to leave unexpectedly. I considered the option myself but came to the conclusion that it's better to wait until next year. If I had been single I would have probably requested to go this year, but having a family I thought otherwise. Anyway, this Thursday I'll be going to Skrydstrup AB for a meeting and I look forward to hear jet noise again and smell some jet fuel while we're there. Anyway, class starting again now. Catch you later. /GEA |
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