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 [...]

January 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Flying! | Leave a comment

Almost done

By John, on May 8th, 2010

The replacements are here and the pass-on has been completed. The new guy doesn’t have any of his worker bees yet but I can’t do anything about that. If all goes to plan – and there is no plan – I’ll be home within the next 14 days. Isn’t that an overly broad swath [...]

May 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: desert, Life as we know it, rants, work | Leave a comment

Traveling

By John, on January 30th, 2010

I’ve traveled on a C130 and a C17 and numerous other civilian aircraft. All of them have had one thing in common: fixed wings. Recently I took a trip on a Black-hawk Helo and it was awesome. I had to travel to another base to inspect some stuff and we found it was far [...]

January 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Leave a comment

It’s a Rodeo – an AIR Rodeo

By John, on July 17th, 2009

I’ve got a few hours before I head back to work. Yes, its 130 on a Friday afternoon and I’m going to head back to work when everyone is headed home. For the next 7-14 days I am going to be running in my sleep – if I get a chance to catch some [...]

July 17th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: work | Leave a comment