Easy day trip. Flew with a Captain that was new to me. It was 5 hours of talking about planes, cars and kids….oh we each flew a leg as well. Nothing exciting…which is how flights should be. After getting home though I started to not feel so hot. Seems my daughter brought a gift home [...]

Today was supposed to be an easy trip. One turn. Easy. It’s VFR. Easy. Bleh. I had an 11:15 report time. My daughter wasn’t feeling the best so we kept her out of daycare. My wife went to work early in order to get off early. How early? She woke up at 4AM. Yeah. My [...]

Living in base and being a line holder gives me the ability to (almost) write my own pay check. My line for December was initially valued at 83 hours. Of that 83 hours 22 hours involved a 4 day trip that starts on December 31st. I traded around and ended up with 65 hours before [...]

My 3 day trip went well. Ended kinda funny. The first overnight was at a very small outstation. How small? The tower opens at 9AM and closes at 9PM. We arrived 10 minutes early at 9:25PM and were scheduled to leave at 7:20AM. We are the only airline that serves the airport. The original overnight [...]

I had a nice long blog post about my last four day. All typed up using a bluetooth keyboard and my Ipad. Then for whatever reason the app crashed…there is no autosave on the app. Blog lost. Blame Apple. Well maybe the WordPress app. I might rewrite it. Eh. Right now I’m on day 2 [...]

I’m supposed to be in a Hyatt Place right now. That’s my FAVORITE hotel for overnights. My 4 day trip started yesterday. The trip is a 3-4-2-3. Meaning 3 legs the first day, 4 legs the second day and so on. Captain took the first leg and I took the second. A little weather was [...]