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The chief pilot of Aardvark (who likes me, but isn't hiring) sent me an e-mail to help me with my job hunting. He suggests:
There are two sure fire ways to get your foot in the door.
1.
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If you read the other aviation blogs in my sidebar, you now know how many days I'm behind, because Sam blogs in a timely fashion, even managing to squeeze out lavishly illustrated entries from Europ
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One day I was sitting at the kitchen table in Lynx Lake, leafing through a catalogue from the
Northern Store. It's a retail company that has operated in these par
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Today I flew my first revenue flight since my grounding. I met the customer at his airplane, a newish Cessna 182. He is an older gentleman who holds an instrument rating and just wants to stay current
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As I've
mentioned, I'm currently licenced to fly subject to a number of conditions. The evening I received notification of the r
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This story took place on one of the days while I was playing telephone tag with the medical examiner. Read it as
though you have a cellphone in your pocket on which your entire career depends, but
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So it's turns out that it's physically painful to not blog. Who knew? I've been making phone calls but not talking to the right people yet, but rather than suffer in agony and leave my blog completel
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In a
recent comment Rob asked me which famous person I most resemble, and
October 21, 2006
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A reader forwarded this suggestion to me, and it's not a bad idea, so I thought I'd pass it along.
A paramedic observed that, at accident scenes, there
were always mobile phones with patients, but
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In the last couple of days I've twice gone to the post office to pick up deliveries consisting of my belongings coming back from the north. The second delivery included the last of my stuff. It makes
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Now that I have a medical again, I need a job. My old job isn't waiting for me
because, well it couldn't wait for me. People couldn't go without their pop and
chips for three months (even
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I loved your guesses and your crazy answers to my riddle. I loved what
you envisioned me doing much more than what I was really doing, which
enabled me to picture myself doing them again soon. L
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I go for a blood test every week, to ensure that the medication is working properly for me
and my diet. I must avoid changing the amount of Vitamin K in my diet, because rat poison and
vitamin K
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After a week I returned the wheelchair to the pharmacy and returned to teaching my class while sitting down in a normal chair, with my leg up. It's great: because I arrived as the woman in the wheel
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As I mentioned, I lined up a contract to teach groundschool at an aviation college. Canadian law doesn't require a groundschool instructor to be a licensed flight instructor, or even be able to fly.
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As I mentioned, I took over control of the needles and booked a flight the heck out of town as soon as I could. Sorry that I don't have a Vengeance on Main Street tale with which to entertain y
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Did I tell you that after I checked into the motel I realized that it's the same one in
which I stayed with my captain the first night I worked for this company? I'm pretty sure I
even have the
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The day after my diagnosis I limped up to the hospital and took number 75 in the ER waiting queue. That's a little disconcerting seeing as I was number 73 yesterday, but I'll assume they've cycled all
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When major events happen on my blog, sometimes a few readers cry foul, because they discover that I do not rush home and blog for them the events of every day before I go to bed. People somehow feel c
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The story continues from yesterday's entry.
I can't leave the northern town with the hospital for five days. I must take the pills
every morning and walk to the hospital twice a day for my injectio
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Before I packed to come for the testing, I googled for information on blood clots and pilot
medicals. My first hit was about an airline pilot who dropped dead at the baggage carousel
after his fli
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Next morning I bike out to the clinic to get my blood drawn. The affected leg doesn't push as hard on the pedals, I notice. It doesn't hurt, though.
There's no waiting this time, because I have an
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In the morning, my FO picked me up at ten fifteen. He had the day off yesterday, too and we
both laugh about how little we did all day. Together we loaded an airplane with pop and chips.
I need
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It's another beautiful day in the north and I'm scheduled to go back to the sparkly runway today, to bring home the funeral people with the teeny dog. Rather than waiting for a ride, I just bike to
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We're assigned to another airport and pick up a technician of some sort, to take him into a number of different reserves. We're not sure what sort of technician, but tech people tend to travel with
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My first flight of the day was with a rampee-FO. This puts me back in the situation where
I'm flying with someone who has more knowledge of the company than I. But at least I have more
knowledge
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My chief pilot alerted me last night before going off on vacation that I would be flying
with a new Monarch Butterfly captain, today. It's his first day without his FO being the guy
who trained
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It's Friday today. (Not today today, but the today I wrote this.) I know, because my
chief pilot reminded me several times. He was supposed to have today off to get ready for his
weekend fi
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Don't waste time kicking yourself. Other people will volunteer for that task should it become necessary. In fact, sometimes they are so keen that they will do it pre-emtively, so you don't need to wor
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Long time followers of my saga will recall that I much prefer flying to driving. Taxiing,
as far as I am concerned, is a necessary evil required to reach the state of flight. Any
vehicle that can
