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Month: September 2008

CRJ Training Class

Wed 24 September 2008

I’ve been assigned a CRJ ground school class starting on November 3 in Phoenix. It looks like they’re putting us up in ASU student housing, which is not so good. It’s in the middle of nowhere, which means that without a car, you can’t get anywhere. Depending on my last day of flying in JFK,…
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AF1

Mon 22 September 2008

(Taken from Berck’s camera phone.)
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Future Uncertainty

Sat 20 September 2008

I’ve been sitting ready reserve at the airport for the past several days. The excitement in the crew room started yesterday with an email indicating that 100 CRJ captains and 80 CRJ FO’s are likely to be displaced. Exactly what this means is a bit up in the air, and it sure sounds like some…
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Why you don’t build your house on the sand

Mon 15 September 2008

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Flight to ORD

Sun 14 September 2008

I woke up this morning at some point before Sydney’s movers arrived. I’d landed at DCA at 3am night before last, so an 11am flight seemed awfully early. Sydney’s belongings and I both left Brevoort Place at the same time. Sydney’s living in Park Slope now, and I have a dirty, unfinished apartment in Bed-Stuy…
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