Thursday, April 17, 2008

This is what it looked like when I arrived at work this morning. A good day to stay on the ground or as Brian said when he first looked outside this morning -"It's a snow day" and went back to bed.
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3 comments:

DAD said...

Excellent picture of Chinooks. They look good in the dust. Which allows me to say, still focused (: that Alice and Sara and I ran outside the day before yesterday to see a CH-47 thump over. "That could have been David!" we said together. And then we said, with locked arms, "Here's to you David!" and felt VERY sentimental. Moist eyes. If we had flags we would have probably waved them. (:

April 20, 2008 at 4:40 AM
DAD said...

What about the "snow day" concept. Are you supposed to find something else to do? (Officially) Or is non-flying time pretty much left to whatever. Like going back to bed which sounds like an excellent idea. (:

April 20, 2008 at 4:49 AM
David said...

The snow day was pretty much just an expression - at least for the maintenance pilots. We go in pretty much every morning to see if there is anything we need to do. We end up taking 2-3 days off a month where we don't even show up all day. Even if there is no flying there may still be maintenance going on and work to do. As far as the other pilots - if you are on the schedule for that day (or night) then you have to go in even if you know you aren't flying. Most of the pilots have additional jobs outside of flying and they use that time to catch up on things. If there is no phase going on and we have had bad weather for a couple of days then things get pretty slow since the aircraft don't break when we don't fly them. During those times the flight line is pretty dead and people are either back in their rooms, at the gym or just wandering around (that is rather limited).

April 20, 2008 at 8:12 PM

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