Fasten your seat belts, please

This is an "OK-now-that-the-journalists-have-left-the-cockpit-I-can-just-really-quickly-do-what-I-wanted-to-do-the-whole-time-and-take-a-picture-of-myself-sitting-in-the-pilot's-seat" photo.

The team here organised an Air Arabia press event recently, with about 15 journalists visiting the airline's offices in Sharjah. Of course I had no objections when I was asked if I wanted to come along, and enjoyed the opportunity to look behind the scenes and chat with some journalists.