Despite management's failure to communicate, my ex-co-workers have come through for me. I arranged with the Victory cargo slaves to look after my belongings, whenver it was that they finally came down
My spiral notebook since I got off the bus has been not so much a daily journal as a collection
of lists. Things to do, people to call, things to tell my ex-boss if I ever get a hold of
him, and a
I also update my online profile with Air Canada. It's almost as complex a process as applying for EI, but the motivation is greater.
I go to their website career section and enter my username and pas
I went to the appropriate government office to sign up for Employment Insurance benefits. (It used to be called unemployment insurance, but then they compared it to life insurance, which isn't called
I finally booked a lesson with an instructor. It's scheduled first thing in the morning, and I find that I have butterflies as I go out to the airport. This is where I find out if I have some pilot
I didn't book the lesson right away. I meant to, but what did it matter if it was tomorrow or the next day. I sort of entered into a limbo. I needed to give myself a chance to get over what had happ
I'm going to post tonight my analysis of what happened out there, based on time,
discussions with some experts and some of your comments, but first some alternate opinions. There is a a student pilo
I'm going to take a moment and address a comment that was posted yesterday, and which I've seen in reader e-mail as well. Readers feel unfairly treated because they've realized that this series of pos
There has been a lot of misinterpretation and rumours based on my last post. To recap, that
entry described my being fired after a very poor flight. I called my boss immediately after
the flight
Deep breath, Aviatrix. This is the big one. The entry I have been leading up to, and the one I don't want to post. If you're just tuning in, please do me the courtesy of reading back a week and fi
The day dawns and there is still power. Only one shower, but what's the fun of an
adventure without small hardships? The smoke here is not bad at all. I call flight services
for weather informatio
Exactly nine hours after I came off duty, the telephone rings and wakes me up. The dispatcher has been waiting out my legally allocated travel & hygiene time plus rest period to call me, not a
I left off this entry just after I had disembarked the passengers. The FO got off with them, to escort them to the terminal and perhaps to see if there was some food available there after all, or
The current series of posts describes a sequence of events that is best understood in chronological order. I recommend that you start at least as far back as August 15, 2006
I'm going to wait another day before posting the continuation of yesterday's story, but here's a shot of the forest fires burning uncontrolled along our route.
When I moved into one crew house, the clock wasn't working. The batteries had been removed. I always have lots of AA batteries with me for aviation equipment, so I dusted off the clock, stuck a c
We were called out on a bright sunny day for a trip to a place I hadn't been before. We didn't have enough fuel to make the whole trip, so we looked for somewhere to buy fuel enroute, but there w
We're going back and forth between the same two aerodromes all day, but we still need to do paperwork for every leg of the flight, showing the fuel at takeoff, the fuel required, the takeoff and
I discovered some time ago why my company wants me to set up the HSI backwards on the
outbound leg of a full procedure VOR approach. At first I thought it was ornery
curmudgeonliness, but whe
You know the little mini seatbelt the flight attendant holds up to demonstrate the
operation of the buckle and release mechanism? I used to to think it was a prop developed
especially for the safe
I'm flying with a very young co-pilot. He flies with precision, and asks lots of questions. He's obviously done everything right towards achieving an aviation career, because he's here already in
I've been back and forth all day doing flights between an airport that has fuel available and one that doesn't. I can carry enough fuel to do the trip ten times without refuelling, so it's not a probl
One day I saw what may be the most lost piece of airline luggage ever. It came off the big airplane with a big RUSH tag on it, from British Airways. It was destined for a British Airways f
As I went out on my break my boss told me which base I'd be working out of on my return. I spent half a second trying to put together the words to explain that I hadn't brought everything I neede
The airplanes I fly these days are in pretty good repair, but occasionally a customer can catch a glimpse of a bit of speed tape on a fairing or a wingtip. One commented on it the other day, so I
