On day 3 of a 4 day. The trip is a 1-2-4-5 trip. Day one was easy. I had a 7PM departure. One leg to the overnight….a reduced rest 8 1/2 hour overnight. Eh. I’d been off for 9 days…same with my co-pilot. He used to be an instructor in the training center and just [...]

I was first diagnosed with SJS when I was just 10 years old. I was in wood shop when I saw a few kids huddled around a “state of the art” 80386 computer running Microsoft Flight Simulator. I was hooked…on computers…and soon flying jets. Years went by and I played better and better versions of [...]

I finished my day trip Friday. I’m off until NEXT week on Sunday. Just part of my line. Keeping my daughter out of daycare all this week. It’s going to be the geek and daughter show…..thus it will be quiet here this week. Might write a general post about how QOL is way more important [...]

My Bose A-20s are in the back of a UPS airplane right now headed over to Massachusetts. Over the last week they developed a nasty habit of cutting out all sound for a few seconds if I moved my head ….sometimes. A few seconds of no communication is very bad especially in the terminal environment. [...]

If I had not banged out sick I would be working 6 days in a row and have flown 28 hours over that period. Using my daughters new favorite word that would have been, “icky”. I feel much better today so I went flying. Originally I was scheduled to depart at 7:35AM, fly 2.15 hours [...]

Had to bang out sick in the middle of my last trip of the month. Toddler germs plus allergies. Ick. Being the dad of a toddler who attends day care 3 days a week means I am exposed to all kinds of germs….evil toddler germs. I am vigalint about hand washing as soon as we [...]