It ended up being a joke, and took only about 10 minutes. The guy before me took 2 hours. He said it was pretty tough when he got out. The examiner is a self-proclaimed redneck with cowboy boots. Generally a jolly fellow who appears to have been giving check rides for quite some time. When…
I’ve not been at all worried about this exam up until about, oh, two hours ago. I’m prepared; I don’t know why I’m worried. Maybe something to do with the thousands of pages of material, all of which is fair game, and which I cannot possibly hope to contain in my feeble little brain. Good…
Yesterday, while doing door pulls, I reflected that it really doesn’t seem like it was that long ago I was inside a CRJ in Atlanta operating the emergency exits for flight attendant training. It was pretty much exactly the same drill in Phoenix yesterday except this time I had to show the instructor how to…
The terrorists have won. They wanted to disrupt our lives, and they’ve succeeded. They did so by helping creating an organization so mind-numbingly stupefying it’s brought the greatest nation on earth to its knees. I refer, of course, to the TSA. First we couldn’t take our fingernail clippers onto planes with us, in case we…
[Note: This entry back-dated.] Since I got my crew badge, I can theoretically ride in the cockpit of airliners. I got up early yesterday morning and had Jonah drive me to the airport. The weather folks said there was a 100% chance of snow the night before, and it did snow, but not much. I’d…