Introduction

Well, this is a new adventure for me. I'd been thinking about starting a blog for some time, but had fairly scattered ideas about what I actually wanted it to do.

A little about myself to start with:

• I'm 22, from Buckinghamshire (England). I graduated in July 2008 from the University of Liverpool with a B.Eng in Aerospace Engineering.
• I've always wanted to be a pilot, and so at the end of this month I'm off to Flight Training Europe in Jerez de La Frontera, Spain, to start a 14-month integrated ATPL (Air Transport Pilots Licence) course.
• I'm a geek. Yes, I admit it. I long ago realised that I was irretrievably geeky, and so I decided just to accept it, embrace it, and get on with life. It's just easier that way.
• I'm a Photography Geek. Anyone who's interested, I own a Canon 40D with a variety of lenses. I'm also a Computer Geek, with a dangerous habit of tinkering with things.
• Why 'Improbably Tall'? Because Jeremy Paxman once called me that. Yes, really.
  

So, why am I blogging, and what am I going to talk about? Well, really I want to do three things with this blog:

1. Use it as a place to ramble generally about whatever happens to pop into my head.
2. Talk about my experience as a trainee pilot.
3. Use this as a photo journal for my time in Spain, and elsewhere.

That's quite enough to introduce me for now, I'll post again when I have something useful to say!