While sitting ready reserve today I was surprised to get a flight. Nothing great. It’s a short flight with a short overnight. The Captain is a nice guy and with a short overnight I should be released in the morning when I get back. Flying twice in one week! It’s almost like being a “real” [...]

Before yesterday I had not flown in 19 days. I had only flown 7 hours this month. While sitting airport standby I checked the flights around 5PM and everything looked covered. I then thought about what to eat for dinner. The airport has a pretty vast selection of fast food and restaurants. For some odd [...]

So I just checked my airline announcements…..final bid award just came out. I’m no longer getting displaced. If you recall I was displaced by just ONE number. After reviewing the bids and such I can only assume mistakes were found allowing that one number to no longer push me out. Is this good news? Well [...]

Today is my first day back at the airport in a week. I start the first of 5 airport standby days today. As I parked my car in the employee parking lot, a UPS plane taxied across the airport. I see this same flight everyday I do airport standby. I grabbed my laptop bag (the [...]

I did indeed get awarded a regular reserve line next month. Nice. What was surprising was my buddy who was holding a hard line in another base also got a reserve line. He was junior to me when he was based with me here in Fargo (My “base” for discussions on this blog”). He was [...]

Nice video and quick thinking. At first I thought the CFI was doing one of those “you just lost your engine where are you going to land drills”. Nope. http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/4/21/plane_makes_emergency_landing_on_street.html Plane Emergency Street Landing Captured On Video Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:24:28 PM Reported By Evrod Cassimy POLK COUNTY — The Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In starts [...]