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Got the overnight!

March 9th, 2010 by Geek Pilot
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Sure enough we got the overnight. The entire crew was composed of reserves. Flight was scheduled to leave at 5:20PM. The inbound plane didn’t arrive until 5:15PM.

As I setup my side of the plane I noticed something missing…the mike [...] Continue Reading…

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Hoping for an overnight

March 8th, 2010 by Geek Pilot
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Sitting in the crew room. The Captain, Paul,  sitting ready with me is a guy I enjoy flying with.

When I first started I held a line for 2 months (my base was overstaffed so senior pilots bid reserve and [...] Continue Reading…

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Is it July yet?

March 5th, 2010 by Geek Pilot
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March starts with me going back to daily airport reserve as my line. I welcome this as I didn’t like being on reserve as THE junior man.

Being the most junior I was up for any and all assignments. At [...] Continue Reading…

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Back to your hole flyboy

February 27th, 2010 by Geek Pilot
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Scheduling has been interesting this week.

Monday – 4 legs with a 3 hour sit in between

Tuesday – off

Wednesday – Morning airport reserve

Thursday- Late morning reserve at home. They didn’t realize they had no one to cover afternoon airport reserve [...] Continue Reading…

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