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[[Image:Emirates b777-300er a6-ebm arp.jpg|right|thumb|[[Emirates Airlines]]' [[Boeing 777]]-300ER]]
[[Image:concorde g-boab in storage arp.jpg|thumb|right|[[British Airways]] [[Concorde]]]]
[[Image:airnz.b747-400.zk-suj.arp.jpg|thumb|right|[[Air New Zealand]] [[Boeing 747]]-400]]
[[Image:Boeing 787 Roll-out.jpg|thumb|left|[[Boeing 787]] Rollout]]
[[Image:Delta Air Lines Boeing 777 N701DN.jpg|thumb|left|[[Delta Airlines]] [[Boeing 777]]-200LR]]

Welcome to my user page. I hope you like it and if you want to speak to me, feel free to post on my [[User talk:Plane Person|talk page]]. While I like to maintain a good user page, I want to spend most of my time contributing to the [[WP:AVIATION|Wikipedia Aviation Project]].

Travel is my greatest ambition following a once-in-a-lifetime trip to [[New Zealand]] in late 2007. However, my greatest interest is in commercial aircraft and airlines.  I hold a [[Private Pilots License]] and dream of one day becoming a commercial airline pilot.


My favourite 3 aircraft are: the [[Boeing 777|Boeing 777-300ER]], [[Concorde]] and the [[Boeing 747]].

My favourite 3 airlines are: [[Emirates Airlines]], [[British Airways]] and [[Air New Zealand]].


I have made 1,312 contributions to Wikipedia pages and have written four articles from scratch: [[Orizonia Corporation]]; [[Air Grand Canyon]]; [[Aviation Partners Incorporated]]; & [[Mitigation of aviation's environmental impact]]. I have also worked to help the [[British Airways]] page achieve GA-Class and got it to A-Class. The ultimate goal is to get the page to become a Feature Article.

Most of the [[Iberworld]] article is my writting and the entire "Incident" section of [[British Airways Flight 9]] was rewritten by myself. I have also done major work on [[Continental Airlines]]' Envirnoment section; the whole of [[Transaero]]'s page; all of [[British Airways]] page; part of [[Orbest]]'s and [[Air Pullmantur]]'s

I have experiance flying the [[Piper Tomahawk]] and [[Cessna 172]].

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! Airline Flown
! Aircraft Flown
! Routes
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| [[Emirates Airlines|Emirates]]
| [[Boeing 777]]-300ER & [[Airbus A340]]-500
| [[Glasgow]]-[[Dubai]]-[[Melbourne]]-[[Auckland]]; [[Christchurch]]-[[Sydney]]-[[Dubai]]-[[Glasgow]]
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| [[British Airways]]
| [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A319]] (G-EUPR & unknown registration) & [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A321]] & [[Boeing 737]]-400 & [[Boeing 757]]-200 & [[Boeing 767]]-300ER (G-BNWT) & [[Boeing 747]]-400 (G-BNLE)
| [[Glasgow]]-[[London Gatwick Airport|London Gatwick]]; [[Glasgow]]-[[London Heathrow Airport|London Heathrow]]; [[London Heathrow Airport|London Heathrow]]-[[Washington Dulles Airport|Washington Dulles]]; [[Glasgow]]-[[Rovaniemi]]
|-
| [[easyJet]]
| [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A319]]
| [[Glasgow]]-[[Bristol]]; [[Glasgow]]-[[Geneva]]
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| [[Air New Zealand]]
| [[ATR-72]]-500
| [[Wellington]]-[[Christchurch]]
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| [[Continental Airlines]]
| [[Boeing 757]]-200WL
| [[Glasgow]]-[[New York]]
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| [[Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne|Air France Régional]]
| [[Embraer ERJ-145]]
| [[Edinburgh]]-[[Nice]]
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| [[TAP Portugal]]
| [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A319]]
| [[London Gatwick Airport|London Gatwick]]-[[Madeira]]
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| [[Thomas Cook Airlines]]
| [[Airbus A330]]-200
| [[Glasgow]]-[[Naples]]
|-
| [[bmi (airline)|bmi]]
| [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A319]]
| [[Edinburgh]]-[[Esbjerg]]
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| [[Monarch Airlines]]
| [[Boeing 757]]-200
| [[Glasgow]]-[[Palma de Mallorca]]
|}

== Places I have visited ==

Here follows a list of all the major places I have visited outside of the United Kingdom (pictures are included of the places which I liked the most):


[[Image:Queenstown - Remarkables 1.jpg|thumb|right|View of the [[The Remarkables]] from [[Queenstown, New Zealand|Queenstown]], [[New Zealand]]]]
[[Image:Milford Sound (New Zealand).JPG|thumb|left|[[Milford Sound]], [[New Zealand]]]]
[[Image:New York Midtown Skyline at night - Jan 2006 edit1.jpg|thumb|right|[[New York City|New York]] Skyline at night from the [[Empire State Building]]]]
[[Image:Funchal Pico da Cruz.jpg|thumb|left|[[Funchal]], [[Madeira]]]]
[[Image:Riva del Garda.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lake Garda]], Northern [[Italy]]]]
[[Image:Talloires , view of Lake Annecy, Kodacolor by Scott Williams.jpg|thumb|left|[[Lake Annecy]], [[France]]]]
[[Image:Autumn leaves VT1.jpg|thumb|right|Trees and Mountains of [[Vermont]], near [[Woodstock, Vermont|Woodstock]]]]

'''New Zealand:'''[[Auckland]]; [[Bay of Islands]]; [[Rotorua]]; [[Tongariro]]; [[Matamata]]; [[Waitomo]]; [[Taupo]]; [[Martinborough]]; [[Wellington]]; [[Christchurch]]; [[Greymouth]];  [[Franz Josef, New Zealand|Franz Josef]]; [[Wanaka]]; [[Queenstown, New Zealand|Queenstown]]; [[Te Anau]]; [[Milford Sound]]; [[Arrowtown]]; [[Mount Cook]].

'''United States of America:''' [[Newark]]; [[New York]]; [[Boston]]; [[Woodstock, Vermont|Woodstock]]; [[Kennebunkport]]; [[Washington DC]].

'''Australia:''' [[Sydney]]; [[Melbourne]].

'''United Arab Emirates (UAE):''' [[Dubai]].

'''France:''' [[Paris]]; [[Nice]]; [[Marseille]]; [[Toulouse]]; [[Lyon]]; [[Calais]]; [[Nantes]]; [[Lake Annecy]].

'''Spain:''' [[Palma de Mallorca]].

'''Portugal:''' [[Madeira]].

'''Italy:''' [[Rome]]; [[Milan]]; [[Verona]]; [[Venice]]; [[Lake Garda]]; [[Naples]]; [[Sorrento]]; [[Pompei]]; [[Herculaneum]].

'''Finland:''' [[Rovaniemi]].

'''Switzerland:''' [[Geneva]].

'''Denmark:''' [[Copenhagen]]; [[Esbjerg]]; [[Billund]]; [[Fanø]].


































== General Aviation Flying  ==

[[Image:Cessna172-CatalinaTakeOff.JPG|thumb|right|A [[Cessna 172 Skyhawk]]]]
[[Image:Tomahawk 38-79A1108.jpg|thumb|left|A [[Piper Tomahawk]]]]

Since I was eight years old, I have wanted to be a commercial pilot and I am one step closer to that dream with my [[Private Pilots License]] (PPL). I currently fly the PA-38-112 [[Piper Tomahawk]] and the [[Cessna 172 Skyhawk]]. The pictures here are not of the aircraft that I fly but represent both aircraft. I can think of no greater thrill than flying a light aircraft and urge anyone to try it. Gaining a PPL is well worth both the (quite considerable) cost and several thousand pages of theory if you're like me and love aviation.









== Pictures I have uploaded ==

[[Image:TAP Portugal A319 in Funchal Airport.jpg|thumb|left|[[TAP Portugal]] [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A319]] on the tarmac in Funchal]]
[[Image:Madeiran coastline, near Sao Jorge.jpg|thumb|right|[[Madeira|Madeiran]] Coastline near Sao Jorge]]

I've started uploadng my own pictures: 




















--[[User:Plane Person|Plane Person]] ([[User talk:Plane Person|talk]]) 11:56, 4 July 2009 (UTC)