Nicola aims for the left seat

Twenty-year-old Nicola Richardson started flying at 14 and quickly became immersed in the club culture at Stapleford. She works full-time in the maintenance department dealing with airworthiness directives for the club’s fleet.

Nicola has been committed to commercial flight training since the age of 15, when she began working at the club part-time to fund her lessons. Nicola got her PPL on her 17th birthday and is currently training for her CPL. An active club member, Nicola has fl own 140 hours and on one trip she took her friends to Southend, “to get a McDonalds!”

This month Nicola is heading down to Bristol Groundschool to study for her ATPL exams and has her sights firmly set on a career as a commercial pilot.
She’s taken the modular route to an ATPL and hopes to have her CPL licence by 2007, with a view to building hours towards her airline pilot’s licence in the future. Nicola’s boyfriend Chris Monksfield is also an aviator. He’s been flying Citation jets for the past two years as a charter pilot. The pair met at Stapleford while Chris was training.
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