Freight Puppy

One more day till the end of my days at ATP. Since my last post I have been studying for my class date, and flying as much as I can. Today i’m calling about getting my car looked at. I keep checking the forums at jetcareers.com, its now a daily habit like checking my email. Things are moving at a good pace and i’m preparing myself more and more each day. I was in the simulator today for 4hrs shooting approaches and keeping myself proficient. Nothing big going on yet, but when i run into something juicy I will definately keep it updated. Happy Flying!

October has well passed and quickly moved on, leaving us with November burrs, chills, and Thanksgiving dinners with friends and family to keep us warm. With the deer hunting season quickly approaching, my family becomes discouraged due to the over populated state of NJ. There are woods here yes, but there are too many houses built upon the previous farm land that once gave a transparent meaning to the Garden State. In short: NO HUNTING SPOTS AVAILABLE. I can’t wait to get out of the northeast and make the move back west!

 Flight instructing has grown on me somewhat. Yes I do fly the same approaches and teach the same maneuvers over and over and over again. No matter how random I mix it up it is what it is. However I can’t complain, they raised the salary a generous amount, and I picked up a new ACP. If your curious about what ACP stands for take a look into this. I did just finish reading my last two posts and could not get over at how inaccurate I was in estimating how many hours I would have logged by now. Since then I logged a good 10hrs of instruction given. Very, very minimal.

 The bright side of my life, miraculous as some would call it, yet most people refer to the old saying of, “It’s a small world.” It is a small world indeed! As my story continues it begins with a student I had from OSU, and may I add was, and yet still is the best pilot I have had so far! This student’s roommate is employed by a company I recently interviewed and was offered a pilot position for. If it wasn’t for my student I probably would have never received such a strong recommendation! There is more to the story than that and if you would like to hear it, email me and i’ll be more than happy to share it once more! So as I am still in the grind of instructing I’m patiently, yet anxiously awaiting a pilot class date with AirNet. I have always wanted to fly cargo instead of living souls, call it a goofy passion of mine to think, “boxes don’t bitch!” Finally, an opportunity to live my dream! At last I get a break with an unbelievable 320TT! I couldn’t be happier and yet more prepared to contribute  my 110% with AirNet as much as I contribute it to ATP. What an opportunity, “It’s a small world!”

 A quick 4hr ATP student of mine has his ATP checkride scheduled for tomorrow morning, as does an ATP written prep guy. I’m starting to feel my eyes gravitating toward the floor, my body paralized at the thought of my own soft and warm bed calling my name at 0240. 0240?!? You’ll be flying with AirNet at that hour, you can’t sleep!!! Well i’m not flying for AirNet, yet. For now i’ll just have to accept the fact that I’m still a flight instructor, and worst of all….  a day person. Time to me is and will always be a lifestyle. Time is not just a calibrated numerical system we utilize, no no it has alot more meaning than that. Time is a lifestyle.