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About Richard

 

Richard has had a very interesting and diverse life, read all about his background and interests below.

He started his career with Barclays Bank around the Birmingham area.  Not many people would know what £10 million in CASH looks like!

In 1980 Richard re-trained as a computer programmer and spent the next 20 years working within IT from programming to team management for mostly blue-chip companies on various large commercial projects.  Most of this work was as an external consultant; definitely one of Richard’s best moves.

In 1999 Richard diversified once more as he became a lecturer at Oxford Aviation College where he instructed various technical subjects leading to students passing the UK CAA and the JAA Airline Transport Licence (ATPL) theory examinations.   Using these skills Richard went to live and work in New Zealand for CTC Aviation Hamilton in 2007.  

Richard returned to the UK in 2008 where he continues to lecturer in aviation on a freelance basis, which has seen a significant increase in 2017.  Between 07:00 and 10:00 he is usually found trading the FOREX & stock markets a very interesting and profitable sideline.

Short Field Landings
Pauanuai International!
Pauanuai New Zealand Pacific Ocean


 
History, travel & wildlife remain his greatest passion and has been fortunate to visit lots of countries; Australia, Canada, Dubai most of Europe, USA, but his highlights would have to be a Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan and the Pyramids.

Nile Sunset
Nilesunset.jpg
Luxor

While in New Zealand took a four hour flight across the International Date Line to Rarotonga the capital of the Cook Islands, a tropical paradise in the South Pacific.  It was strange to leave on a Thursday lunchtime and arrive on a Wednesday afternoon the day before!

Paradise Heights - Rarotonga
View from Paradise Heights
Cook Islands - South Pacific

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