Thank to you, readers, this blog has been growing continuously to a very respectable size. I did not expect that when I started it and it turned from a funny experiment to a serious hobby. To keep up with the pace and quality you expect, I decided to bring it one step further. No worries, you won’t have to subscribe to get more – it’s the other way round: you’ll get more and for free. Larger aircraft have crew of two, this blog will now have a crew of not less than five ! Let me introduce the new crew members.

Matthew, who earlier invited me for a flight in a Cirrus SR22, is the editor of Golf Hotel Whiskey, where he shares golf, hotels, pubs and restaurant tips for pilots, and much more. He is Writer in chief at Articulate Marketing and author of the Bad Language blog. He has a CPL/IR and over 500 hours. He already posted here about the specifics of flying in UK and will contribute with more posts about the Cirrus, amongst others.

Julien, on of the most active commenters, will re-activate the “Best of the web” post series, prepare best-of posts and has some ideas about a newsletter… Julien is a private pilot based at Bankstown airport near Sydney, Australia where he flies with the Schofields Flying Club. He started learning to fly in Cessnas in 2007 at the Redcliffe Aero Club near Brisbane, Australia and received his PPL in 2008. Julien now flies Arrows and Archers and is working towards a Night VFR rating. He keeps a personal blog to record and share his flying experience. When on the ground, Julien can be found either earning money to go flying again through a management job in an IT research center, or enjoying life in beautiful Sydney with his wife and their cat.

Patrick is the blogger behind www.aviationchatter.com, an online flight training resource with reflections from the flight training world, aviation news, and pilot insights and lessons learned from years of experience. He flies the Canadair CRJ-200 for a US regional airline and will post here about the airline world.

Axel is the former editor of www.pilot-net.com. He stopped blogging by lack of time, but missed it. He will contribute here about his training in Florida and hopefully about his career as professional pilot. The posts from his previous blog will be re-published here – don’t miss the part about his (courageous) decision to move from Norway to Florida, nor the ones about his first solo, they are simply exhilarating. Many of his photos will also be transferred in the photo galleries.