I’m exactly halfway through week 1 of systems (lunch on Wednesday) on the DC-10. This is the meat and potatoes of the airplane. My initial reaction when looking at the cockpit was to think that this was going to be pretty difficult. I knew the systems were similar to the … Continue reading
Fortunately, things aren’t still going like they did the day I came down to Atlanta. In fact, things have smoothed out quite a bit. Every year, we do recurrent training and a portion of that is going over several FAA mandated subjects such as emergency equipment (survival, firefighting, etc.), security, … Continue reading
Starting a new tag – upgrade. It’ll be applied to anything relating to the process of upgrading from MD-11 F/O to DC-10 Captain. Yesterday was day 0 of that process. This morning I start ground school. It’s in Atlanta, so I had to come down last night. I got to … Continue reading
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I stumbled across this article listing careers that earn more pay working fewer hours. Basically, it’s a listing of 33 jobs, most of which you haven’t heard of before, that have some combination of pay that is above average ($37,037), and/or work in hours per week or hours per year … Continue reading
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I just flew what is likely to be my last leg in the MD-11 for at least a while. As with anything in life (especially relating to my work), this is subject to change. But the plan is for me to go to DC-10 Captain school next week. If all … Continue reading
This is part 2 of the story of my pre-Christmas holy land tour. Part 1 can be found here. We parked on the south side of Jerusalem and took a quick look at some of the digs outside the gates. Upon entering, the guide explained to us that the western … Continue reading
Two weeks ago, I sent a message to all of the Presidential candidates asking them to insist on fair candidate forums in the media. The result of that was just what I expected. Spam…. I got no meaningful response from any of them, but I’m now on the spam lists … Continue reading
