Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

licensed pilot
. I’ve been fl ying for about, since 1998, so 
about nine years, 
instrument-rated pilot
, and now that 
I’ve recently returned to freelancing, uh, in my private 

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practice as an interpreter, I should have more time to fl y, 
so it’s one of things I’m looking forward to, is spending 
more time back in the air. Since I’ve moved to the area 
for the past year and a half, I’ve been going back to New 
Jersey and fl ying with the same, uh, 
fi xed-based opera-
tor, FBO
, that I was fl ying with out of New Jersey, and so 
now I hope to return to the skies a little bit more in this 
area.
INTERVIEWER:
Where did you learn to fl y?
MAN:
At Teterboro, uh, Airport in New Jersey at a school 
called Airfl eet Training Systems. And, uh, it was just a 
dream I always had and working for myself at the time, 
I had the time. I also started learning with a friend from 
kindergarten who always wanted to fl y. I just think 
through our twenties, we didn’t have the funds to learn 
how to fl y, so fi nally at thirty, we both decided, “We’d 
better get started now before we get too old.” And so we 
both started learning together at the same time, which 
is good, because once you’re in the air, it’s 
kinda
lonely, 
if you’re just going around with, you know, to diff erent 
locations, it’s exciting. But having a friend, someone there 
that you can fl y with and split the cost with as well, has 
been exciting, so we kinda learned at the same time.
INTERVIEWER:
Have you fl own just in New Jersey or what’s 
the farthest that you’ve fl own?