Head pounding. Look down at your right calf: a liter bottle of water, mostly full.
Stupid.
Just flew 3 hours from DFW to DCA--should have paid attention to hydration. Now, sitting near the end of runway 1 at Reagan national, it's too late: the damage is done.
Been sitting here for over two hours now. In a thunderstorm. Which has hit the tower with a lightning bolt that fried their primary radios--so now they're using a weak backup radio that sounds like the controller is using a tin can on a wire.
Been there and done that.
Been there, done that too many times.
Happy to be retired now as it just wasn’t fun anymore.
Ditto. Retired 6 years ago, every night I wake up when the thunder bumps the house and the lightening flashes illuminate the blinds, it takes me about 10 seconds to think Thank God I’m home in my own bed and let some one else make all the decisions. I’m going back to sleeping. Done my share.
Thirty seconds later back to sleep. In my own bed. Not in a hotel. Not on the road. There are blessings in retirement.
That is a good blog. I’ve been reading it for a few months now.
As I was reading that I am thinking “add blustery snowy day” wondering how that – would affect the decisions.
Snow adds a new dimension to the equation–holdover time. After getting deiced and/or anti iced, depending on the chemical applied to the surfaces of the airplane, there are tables to be consulted based on the time the plane was treated, what the weather is at the moment (light snow, snow, heavy snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and the like). You get so many minutes allowed before takeoff, if you are in line and run out of minutes, back to the ramp and start all over. And the minutes are based on what you think you see outside the cockpit and what the tower is reporting as the observed weather. If you sit in line behind a big blower like a 747 it could be that all the stuff on the wing to keep you and the Bernoullis happy might be blown or melted off and that makes the ball game different. Gives me a headache thinking about all the options. And if you take off and crash it’s obvious you missed one of the options and it came back to bite you. Big time.
Hey, I know who this is! He was telling this story to a bunch of us the other day. Nice write-up…and ain’t it the truth!
Agreed- been there done that in my commuter/courier/freight days.
At PDX add east winds, minus 32F and rain… “Nice Beech 99 Ice Sculpture
you got there….”