I’ve got a solid line. Apparently I figured out how to work PBS (our new, preferential bidding system, because it did a pretty decent job. The most important thing was that I get the 14-17th off to go to Sydney’s graduation, and I got that. In addition, I got a couple other saturdays off. I…
I finished up IOE with 21 hours (the FAA minimum required for a turbo-prop is 20 hours) on Friday. I wasn’t sure what my schedule would be like, but I knew that weekends off in the future were somewhat unlikely. Neal was free Friday evening, so I cooked elk bolognese with the remainder of the…
I’m getting a little better at flying the Dash. Fortunately, I’m nowhere near as bad as I was when I first started flying the jet. Durango is shaping up to be another excellent overnight. It looks like we stay right downtown in walking distance of all kinds of things, including a brewery. Unfortunately, we got…
I just now discovered a nifty little Google Maps tool that lets you make maps. It’s probably been around forever, but I just now noticed it. So I made a map of all the destinations that we currently go to in the Dash 8 out of Denver. The blue ones are overnights, the green ones…
I was supposed to start IOE on Monday, but that didn’t happen. I did manage to start on Tuesday. My IOE instructor was exactly the sort of guy you want teaching IOE—he’s the most senior guy on the airplane, been with the company for years, very knowledgeable, by-the-book, and patient. He had me fly the…