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SOF | HERE & THERE
Norton, Dave Mayhew, Emma Wilson,
in Aviation in September 2020, but having
Mizzie Mfaume, James/Jamie Gwyn and
had to pause the commencement of his
Nina Bickerton/Watson, plus lots of others
thesis because of many other factors in a
through Facebook and LinkedIn, together
busy life, is now having to settle for a Post-
with younger OFs met through professional
Graduate Diploma. It’s still a high-level
activities. Quite by chance, he also
quali昀椀cation.
encountered Tom Ridley, James Bartrum
He has also been a voluntary Aviation Skills
and Esme Potter and Ernest Waller, all
ambassador since early 2019, a role which
students on one of his Private Pilot’s Licence
entails going into schools and to careers
courses – all passed, of course!
fairs to talk about careers in aviation.
He can cite his own career path, how it
He and Ernest had not been at
all started and developed. He has also
Framlingham together, but the name had
written a ‘How to become an airline pilot’
rung a bell. It turned out that his name had
guide, emailable, free of charge, to those
been on cassette recordings of College
who are interested.
Chapel Choir music: 昀椀rstly on ‘Christmas
at Framlingham’, recorded
at the end of the Christmas
Term 1987, Simon’s 昀椀nal term,
and featuring him in the bass
section; and secondly, on ‘Music
from Framlingham College’,
recorded in the academic year
1986-7, when Simon was in his
昀椀nal year at Brandeston Hall.
Amongst the names listed in
a barbershop group was that
of - you’ve guessed it - Ernest
Waller. Although the two had
never met, the name had stuck in
Simon’s mind, solely based on his
recollection of a list of names on
38-year-old cassette. Here Ernest
was, turning up and asking for
昀氀ying tuition from someone he had
never met, but who, subliminally,
knew him.
Simon completed an MBA in
Aviation Management in 2016 and
started an MSc in Human Factors
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