Posted by: McQ on Saturday, August 09, 2008 We showed up on the flight deck yesterday at the appointed time, 1015, only to be told our flight going to Miami wasn't leaving until 1200. We're flying a UH-60. Eh, we're there, not hungry and its a beautiful day so we decide to hang out there, sit in the ragged chairs and view the proceedings. We joked about being on the "Ledo" deck and waiting for our waiter to come along and serve drinks. Later it became more imperative I find the head. In the meantime, our bird is sitting right in front of us. Flight deck personnel are out there doing their thing and everything looks pretty good.  So we and the other passengers engage in what most folks do when waiting, we told lies. OK, not lies, but "war stories". And while this is going on, I glance out toward the bird and what do I see? Well, something I normally wouldn't want to see the pilot of my aircraft doing - especially when it's about to take off from the deck of a ship at sea and go over the deep blue for about 50 miles. I mean think about it - you're standing on the concourse, sipping your latte getting ready to board your flight to Las Vegas and you notice the pilot crawling into the cowling of the right engine with a wrench. How eager are you to hop on that little puppy then? Anyway, I watch him for a few minutes, he finishes whatever he's messing with up there and climbs down. I think about it a minute. He's up there doing something which makes me nervous, but he's willing to get into the helicopter and fly it off the deck, so how bad could it really be? Uh, bad. You know, he might be wrong. It's happened before. But here I am typing this and telling the "war story" - obviously nothing went wrong. Just wait till I tell it the next time though. |
||||||||||||||||
| TrackBacks | ||||||||||||||||
| Return to Main Blog Page | ||||||||||||||||
| Comments For This Post | ||||||||||||||||
Previous Comments to this Post |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
| Add Your Comment | ||||||||||||||||
|
|
| Vicious Capitalism |
Buy Dale's Book!
|
