Potential Applicants..

The Illusionist was telling us about one of his old students who is now heavily involved with the assessment of cadet applicants.

The Illusionist
- "She wasked why so few of the applicantion forms mentioned anything about the desire to fly. I told her

'It's not about the flying, it's the Wonga [Gestures to his wallet], the house and the lifestyle.'

This is what you lot want."

He then began building the scene in a very aminated fashion.

The Illusionist
- "You're sat there in the cockpit at the gate at Gatwick in the middle of February, it's pouring with rain and you can see the Gingerbeer (Engineer) walking round the plane, absolutely soaked, doing all of the pre-flight checks.

The Gingerbeer unplugs you and signals that you are clear to push back, you give him a supercillious wave as he gives you the salute [He gestures an angry swear].

You taxi round to the runway, throttle forward and you charge down the runway. Being careful as the runway is covered with rain. You reach V1 (The speed of taking off) and you pull back and climb away. You manage to steer the plane through the shit weather that you are leaving behind and climb through the clouds to a whole new world..!

Autopilot on, feet up and coffee is served.

You land in a hot destination. You go to a bar and sit down; you are having a drink and a hot woman walks in, she says hi, you reply, she asks what you do, you say 'Pilot'..

It's not the worst job in the world.."