Sleeping in airplanes. Man, you sure brought back some unpleasant
memories. When a "phoon" hits the south pacific and you're hauling
time sensitive trash, you do exactly that: you divert to a different
city and sit there in the ****ing airplane until it passes. At least
that's what you do at the ****ty non-scheds. My neck and back are
hurting right now just from thinking about it. I'm swatting
mosquitoes and not eating for 16 hrs straight. Thanks Bill.

Wait, wait. This story is not about homebuilding! Nice going! You
stirred up the RAH anthill BWB! And now I'm the guy standing in it!
**** you Badwater Bill! I'm not your friend anymore!

pacplyer


Yeah, dude.... I get a kick out of all the people who think that
being a professional pilot is a romantic endeavor. Boy, do they have
a rude awakening if they ever try it. But, Pac, I can top your
sleeping in the seat at some diverted airport ****-hole in the world
to avoid a phoon.

How about working for AFTAC on their 24 hour missions to the North
Pole? They would sit up there in orbit (driving in circles) and wait
for the Russians to test their nukes and vent into the troposphere.
Then the fun was on. You'd have to fly this piece of old trashy ****
(Boeing 707) EC-135 through the radioactive dust and sample it.

Anyone who's ever flown a 24 hour mission knows what it's like to want
to just ****ing scream and take a can opener to the fuselage to get
out. I don't have a clue how those guys who went to the moon and back
ever did that. They must have been on some powerful clostrophobic
inhibiting drugs. Christ, they had to even **** in a space suit to
boot.

If I never participate in any form of government flying again for as
long as I live, it will be too soon. In fact I NEVER want to fly
anybody or anything commercially ever again. I fly for my own
pleasure and my own edification.

Jesus, I did it again. I posted about something not related to
homebuilding. I wonder if anyone else has ever done that here?

BWB