Happy New Year. Ian here. Jason's off this week. As we prepare for the year ahead, we wanted to look back at some of our favorite conversations from 2019. We'll be back with the first new episode of 2020 with plenty to discuss on January 17th.

We'll start off with episode 56 and our conversation with Mark Van Hanuker, a first officer with British Airways, and a recent

convert from the 747 to the 787. Van Hanuker is also an accomplished author and we discuss his recent book how to land a plane. We are joined by a very special guest, a pilot for British Airways, and author

extraordinary, Mark Van Honeker. Welcome to Av Talk.

Oh, I'm very happy to be here.

Thank you.

Mark, welcome to the show.

Happy to have you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

So for anyone not familiar with Marks, I'll call it a compendium at this point

because you're in a wide variety of places.

You're a first office for British Airways, first, I guess first and foremost, in the aviation

world, but then I hesitate to call them side projects but the other

thing that you do is is right and rather beautifully I must say about aviation in

general your first book Skyfaring came out a few years ago, your second book, which remind me the title again?

That's called our How to Land a Plain.

How to Land a Plain. So helpful information for listeners to this podcast, I think. That will on the in the US on the 30th of April

that's right so so we're looking forward to that and and we wanted to have you on the show to talk

about your piloting career because you've recently

made a switch in your in what you're flying and also talk about we can expect to

see in the book out this month. So let's dive into the change in your career. You were a 747 pilot. You are now a

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