Kerry McCauley, pictured on a Zoom call with MailOnline Travel, has been a ferry pilot for 32 years
In any given year, an average of three pilots die ferrying small aircraft over the North Atlantic.
It’s a seriously perilous job that’s 95 per cent terror and five per cent boredom, according to Kerry McCauley, who’s been doing it for an astonishing 32 years.
He reveals the sweaty-palm-inducing scariness of the role in a riveting book – Ferry Pilot: Nine Lives