Saturday, January 16, 2010

Fly Like an Eagle

Work has been pretty slow since the holidays.  It’s warmed up a little lately and since the airport stopped playing Christmas music, I can actually stand being there again.  It’s now my third year with American Eagle, and time is literally flying by.  A yearly checkride is coming up in the middle of February.  Otherwise I am very much on cruise control.  I still like what I’m doing, and it definitely beats having a real job.  Coming up in the next year will be the jet/prop question: Keep flying the prop for better schedules or switch to the jet for better pay?  Don’t quite know the answer to that one yet.  It depends how fast we grow this year, I guess.

Dallas ATR pilots continue to prove how valuable your pilots up there are.  Everyone makes a big deal about Sully’s OMG amazing landing (a year ago, believe that?), but could he do it with a jammed elevator?  Barely able to control motion in the up/down directions, my fellow pilots did an amazing job getting the airplane back down on he ground safely in Dallas.  I’m sure you didn’t hear anything about it for two reasons:
1. Delta’s crotch “bomber” happened the same day
2. More importantly - It was a regional flight and nobody died.

Ok, enough ranting.  Time for recent pictures.  Friends are upgraded to first class featuring a movie on today’s flight.