In this episode of Voices from Central Asia, we meet Temirlan Zhunussov, a First Officer at Air Astana, whose passion for flying took off long before he ever set foot on a plane.
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00:00In aviation, I came with a dream, a dream of childhood.
00:19After the end of school, I passed the path to the academy of aviation.
00:25Why academy?
00:26Because it was the only university in Central Asia, which taught pilots.
00:31You can teach them on a state's basis.
00:34You think you're going to be a pilot for 4 years.
00:37But in fact, it's not so.
00:39It's 120 people, and it's only 50 people.
00:42Many don't deal with it.
00:44Classical aviation doesn't kill you.
00:46She, on the other hand, kills you.
00:48You see a lot of things.
00:49The most important thing is, of course, is the practice.
00:52It's been 3 years old.
00:54We are flying in certain parts.
00:57After that, we come to the academy.
00:59We are flying in the aircraft.
01:00We are flying in the electric vehicles.
01:02We are flying all over Kazakhstan.
01:04In the circumstances, when there will be rain,
01:07there will be heavy rain, there will be lightning.
01:09Then I was surprised by the trust.
01:11The trust of students, who gave them just keys from the aircraft.
01:15And you were just one.
01:17It was really cool.
01:19My first flight in life on an Italian flight,
01:26TEC-2002,
01:27it was one-motor, two-mest, small,
01:29but it happened on my 20th year.
01:32My instructor said,
01:34you don't fly away,
01:35because you can't fly away from your birthday,
01:36you can't fly away from your birthday.
01:38But I was still flying in 30 minutes,
01:41on my birthday,
01:42on my birthday,
01:43I made a gift.
01:44We finished the academy of aviation.
01:46We released 50 young pilots
01:49with two-year-old diplomas
01:51and licensees from a commercial pilot.
01:53We started the search of work.
01:55We went to different companies.
01:57We were waiting for answers on our resume.
01:59And in the meantime,
02:00we were able to get time.
02:01We were working with engineers
02:03in the airport.
02:05I, as an engineer,
02:08I was an engineer.
02:09I was trained in the plane,
02:10I opened the trunk,
02:11I opened the trunk,
02:12I put the keys.
02:13I looked at the pilots
02:14and thought,
02:15I will be standing.
02:16I left a little bit,
02:17only a few months,
02:19and I can go to the Airstan.
02:22My strength is not falling away from this.
02:25It was very early.
02:26After the Airstan,
02:28you're a cadet
02:29and you're a cadet
02:30and you're going to go to training
02:32for training
02:33in the working of a team
02:35and the team,
02:36you're an engineer
02:38as a company.
02:39It's a whole lesson
02:41how to make yourself
02:43with new captain,
02:44how to meet,
02:45how to handle these races.
02:47The first courses
02:48were used in Spain.
02:50It took only a month,
02:51but during this month
02:52you were able to do many different skills.
02:54My first flight on the real plane was in the big aviator.
02:57It was on this border.
02:59We were flying on the training plane in the city of Achtal.
03:02It's a feeling that you're driving this airspace.
03:05It's listening to you. It's listening to your movements.
03:08To what you see, to what you feel.
03:11We're talking to a trip. We're trying not to forgive him.
03:14He's a pilot, not a pilot.
03:16My path is after the end of the university of Achtal,
03:26but there is also another path,
03:28when you are completely from zero in the best school of Europe.
03:34The program is unique because a person of any profession,
03:39any job, can at one point change your life and become a pilot.
03:46Our company has been in this year for 23 years.
03:49I only wish you the biggest success in my company,
03:52the safety of flights, more new planes, more new pilots.
03:57I probably see myself in this company in the future
04:00as an experienced, knowing myself, knowing my job,
04:04a specialist in my job.
04:05In the second, any soldier wants to be a general,
04:10and any pilot wants to be a captain.
04:13I would like to be a captain of the airbus.
04:16I would like to thank my parents for that,
04:22that they believed in me.
04:23Even the airport is very far,
04:26and I haven't seen flights for 14 years.
04:28They believed in me, in my strength.
04:30They believed in me, in my strength.
04:31They believed in me, in my strength.
04:33They believed in me, in my strength.
04:35In my profession of a pilot, it was a constant education,
04:39constant perfection.
04:41It is necessary to remember,
04:43that a sea sea never makes a man a real man a real man.
04:47Therefore, you need to go to the big sea and oceans
04:51and become a real master of his job.
04:54I would like to thank you.