Ollie - Chairman

Hi, My name is Ollie Cain and i graduated from AP229 in sep04.  It was the end of a long journey which i began sat on my grandfathers knee at the age of 4, (he was a WW2 Spitfire pilot), and has taken me trough Air Training Corps flying and eventually Expensive flying, ie self sponsored flying!!!  Having completed A levels with fairly average grades, i applied for BA sponsorship who said they would like to see a degree... So thats what i did, and four years later, (1 year in Australia, pretending to do proper work, whilst wakeboarding) I re-applied.  Well Sept 11 put a stop to that one and i decided to risk it and pay for training.  Having done the research, Oxford seemed the best choice and with the benefit of hindsight, it was.  Having Scraped through all the training (falling through every hole in every net) I was offered a Job with GB Airways, who i am still very happily working for now.

Wow that took longer than i thought, but other interests are my gorgeous wife Louisa, Wakeboarding (my second true love) and in true Top Gun style Beach Volleyball!!!

 

Vincent - Webmaster

Hello! My name is Vincent Schoenfeld and I am the webmaster for the Alumni Committee.

Flying is actually my third career after, believe it or not, Genetics and IT. I went the modular way with Oxford and finished my MCC in September 2005. I did a stint as a Dispatcher at London City Airport and finally got all important first job with the Big Orange in March. I have been on the line since Septembre and loving every moment of it.

An Alumni society is only as good as its members want it to be, so we will be relying on you to post interesting information! In the meantime, please send news, stories, photos to webmaster@oatalumni.com.

And as for my hobbies... I enjoy golf, tennis, surfing, skiing and snowboarding. Not that I've had the time or money for them the last couple of years! So I'm looking forward to get back to those hobbies once I have paid my loans off. I am told over 60 memberships are dirt cheap!