I've been flying for the last week or so, and it's been a blast! All kinds of new, challenging experiences and planes. Along with an unplanned road trip with Rick!
I had an overnight in Burbank, so Rick came to spend the day with me. I asked him if he wanted to hang out in Burbank for the rest of the day and I would come back and then we could drive to San Diego for my one day off before I went back up to Portland. One of my pilots heard us talking and was incredibly gracious and gave Rick his hotel room to hang out in for the next 5 hours while we were flying. After I got back, we drove to San Diego. 2 hours of 90's music, candy, and car dancing! I was so impressed with Rick and how flexible he was when I threw his schedule for a wild ride that day.
Monday morning I flew back to Portland to sit Reserve for 5 days. Right when I landed at 9 AM, I had been called for a trip. So I got ready at the airport and had some lunch. Then flew 7 trips on the EMB (little prop plane that sits 30 people) on Halloween! We had a few passengers that dressed up in costume and gave me candy on the planes, it was so much fun!
The night ended in Seattle for a short overnight (about 4-5 hours of sleep) and back to my little plane the next morning. So yesterday I had some interesting experiences, including having to take someone off the plane because she was "hung over" and throwing up regularly. It was the first time I had to do it, found it challenging to keep her from being upset as well as the other passengers that were now seeing their flight leave 20 minutes late. I'm glad I was able to do the right thing though.
Then my last two flights were on the Silver Bullet (as Skywest employees lovingly refer to it). It's a whole different configuration, one I had only seen pictures of. And of course it was a full house for my flights as I'm rushing around trying to remember where the heck everything was on the plane! I suddenly felt like it had been YEARS since training! I did manage to get everything under control and get everyone on the flights taken care of and we landed early both times!
What an adventure of a week! Now I'm in Portland on Reserve for three days, then this weekend, I'm flying trips out of LA to pick up time on my days off. I'm excited because I'm going to fly our biggest jets that I haven't ever gotten a chance to fly yet, here's to more experience!
