I recently visited Seville – the first time I’ve flown back myself since flight school. Â I have sat in the jumpseat whilst observing flight deck procedures to Seville during my training and it felt equally nostalgic. Â During flight school, we used to visit Seville often on our training flights and my IR exam involved flying down the same ILS that we did on our scheduled flight a few days ago! Â Unfortunately I didn’t get to bump into any former instructors as there wasn’t much training activity going on at the time, as it was a Spanish holiday. Â Coincidentally, a friend of mine, who had also trained at FTE landed just a few minutes behind me, and only a couple of years ago we were doing the same in Warriors or Senecas!
I do miss Spain – I miss the laid back lifestyle, the beaches, the weather and even seeing the orange trees in the street!  I do get to fly over, or at least the vicinity of Jerez on my way to Morocco or other parts of southern Spain, so it’s nice to admire the familiar view from a few thousand feet up in the air.
Unfortunately, as soon as I thought the volcano wouldn’t be causing much trouble anymore.. it did! It hadn’t caused as widespread chaos as it did last month, but it did cause to a fair few cancellations again, including my flight to Tenerife, which I was looking forward to! Â I’m hoping that someone thinks up a better way of managing these volcano ash events! Â I’m working out of Marseille again next week, so I should escape any disruptions!