Author Description

The Dream: Bushman to Business Jets is a true story of becoming a pilot. The struggle to get that elusive first job, to travel, to see the world and eventually write a book about it. Travelling to remote parts of the world, people met along the way, the anecdotes and experiences over the past twenty plus years. It's a positive story not only for aspiring pilots, but everyone in general, an understanding that people are the same around the world. We all have the same ambitions, struggles and basic needs in life. Working as a pilot afforded me that experience, at times it was not at all glamorous, but merely an existence, and in the end, an experience. Graduating flight school in 1996, I didn't expect I'd ever be living in Russia, or spending time in Kazakhstan. I never thought I'd sail a boat halfway across the Indian Ocean and almost run out of food, or break my skull on a ceiling fan and have surgery in Singapore. It's a story about a journey filled with obstacles, faraway exotic locations, foreign countries, deserted islands and exploring the world. I graduated from Aviation College in May 1996 with a Diploma in aviation technology and business management. That was the easy part. Then began the struggle to find that elusive first job, build enough hours and eventually get hired by an airline. The airlines offered that dream of a glamorous jet-setting lifestyle travelling the world. So at least that was the image of it all. It turned out quite different than planned. My career as a pilot for the past twenty plus years has afforded me not only to travel on almost every continent, but to live full-time in many remote locations. I initially started writing a journal of the interesting things I had encountered, which eventually turned into a book. The story of the struggle of getting my first job flying seaplanes on remote islands near Alaska, working in the Yukon and the high Arctic of Canada. Then onto the Maldives, and chain of remote islands i