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If only I got frequent flyer miles

By John, on August 17th, 2011

I’ve been working quite a bit and by work I mean flying people and cargo all across the planet. I haven’t made it to across the Pacific ocean yet but I’ve crossed the Atlantic quite a few times in the past few weeks. Since I started this job and really started flying (about 2 [...]

On the road

By John, on July 11th, 2011

Weather can ruin hours of careful preparation. We were scheduled to stop in Kansas and pick up some stuff and then fly direct to Germany. We landed, loaded, and fueled only to find that it was too hot to takeoff. We were simply too heavy and the air wasn’t dense enough at that temperature [...]

Woah!

By John, on July 6th, 2011

For a while I was making a relatively decent attempt at keeping this site updated and then boom! My time got sucked away.

Let’s hit the details

1. We’re buying a house and should move in by the end of the month (as soon as the mortgage company gets their act together)

2. Jessica [...]

Oh the irony!

By John, on March 15th, 2011

The only explanation is that someone knows how exhausted I am and they want me to get a decent nights sleep before spending 28 hours driving home.

I guess I should explain. Last night I went to bed early knowing that I had my evaluation and that I needed to be well rested. [...]

Nearly done

By John, on March 11th, 2011

It’s been an up and down week. I’ve had two flights this week and the first of the two didn’t go as well as I would have liked. (side note: my training partner had the same guy on his second flight of the week and faced similar problems) The second, while much better didn’t [...]

Your worst critic

By John, on March 10th, 2011

I don’t know about anyone else, save for my wife, but I tend to be my harshest critic. Last night I had a flight and it wasn’t going well. For me, any problem or gaps in my knowledge are unacceptable. For a while I thought that I wasn’t going to pass my flight and [...]

Sightseeing

By John, on January 26th, 2011

I’ve done some extensive traveling since I joined the military. In fact, I’ve spent more than 5 years living overseas in places like South Korea, the Middle East, and England. While there I made my best effort to get away from the base and experience as much of the culture as possible. Each time [...]

Not as planned

By John, on January 20th, 2011

I woke early this morning for my first training flight. The day did not go as planned. I didn’t have any hot water this morning but I tried to push past it and tried to prevent it from keeping me down. We had some ice and some high winds that hampered our ability to [...]

About that trip I took

By John, on October 20th, 2010

I took a bunch of video and made a video montage. Sorry about all of the bug guts but there was little I could do – those bastards are everywhere.

Round 1 is over – on to Round 2

By John, on October 19th, 2010

Round 1 of training is complete and I still have quite a long way to go in the whole training process. I’ve finished aircrew fundamentals and basic loadmaster. Next on my list are three survival schools followed by the big daddy of them all – initial qualification. I’ve barely been home all year and [...]

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