Meet Temirlan Zhunussov, one of the new generation of pilots shaping Kazakhstan’s aviation future

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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.

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