Category Archives: Work

So I passed the oral this morning. One more step down. Now I’m on my way home for a couple weeks off. I haven’t actually made any concrete plans for that time off yet. I’m sure I’ll figure out how to busy it up. I might take a little trip. … Continue reading →

The last two and a half weeks have been pretty busy. It has been 7 years since I did an initial aircraft course (MD-11 at World). The last one I did was mid-2000 in the Canadair Regional Jet when I upgraded to Captain at Comair. I already knew that airplane … Continue reading →

Too much to write and not enough time to write it all. The short version is, this week I’ve been working pretty darn hard. Lots of studying, not all exclusively for my benefit. I’m thinking I’m doing alright. The Oral got rescheduled (errr relocated) to Memphis this coming Sunday. I … Continue reading →

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 →