I’m getting there. My IOE Captain said he thought he’d be able to sign me off by the end of this trip. Unfortunately, he timed out (meaning he’d go over flight time limits) this morning in CVG, so we weren’t able to complete the trip. Landing a CRJ 900 is reasonably difficult for someone with…
Berck called me this morning. “Hey! I just landed the plane all by myself! No control inputs by my captain! What time is it there?” “That’s great! It’s 6:30.” “Oh, crap! I’m sorry. I was looking at Zulu time, and I figured it was 10:30 and you’d be at work.” (It’s Saturday.) Fortunately, I was…
Why did I think this was going to be a good idea? Oh yeah, shiny jets. The line for takeoff to Houston on Sunday night out of JFK was over 5 miles long. I think we were number 60-70 for takeoff at some point. We spent about two hours on the ground before takeoff. When…
All this week the Wings Like Eagles annual equestrian vaulting camp has been going on. This year we’re going to be having a second week of camp as well, so we can serve more kids. Vaulting is great because you can have a whole bunch of kids be in contact with only a few horses…
I’m sitting in my hotel room in ORF even though I should be sitting in the back of an ERJ to JFK. For whatever reason, we’re scheduled for a deadhead back to JFK, then a single leg to IAH tonight. It’s not looking like we’ll make it to IAH on time, even with the 3…