Today was one of those days were you are glad everything worked out as it did. We were alerted to fly late in the day for a mission that didn’t wound that important, boy were we wrong. As it turns out we were to take only on person out of the country to Kuwait. So how could this be important, well his mother had passed this morning and we were getting him on his way back home.
It just makes me feel so good when we can actually do something to help people out and even though the plan was empty I felt like we were doing the right thing this time. We broke the first plane and then had to ask for a 2 hour extension on our day to make this work but with everyone’s help we got this guy on his way back home. I love when we can help someone out!
Also on the flight down I had something happen that I have never seen. All our navigation systems went ka put. Well kinda, the only headings we had were off out back up compass and we only had one attitude reference too. I was just really glad that we were out of the weather and could see where we were trying to go so it made it a little easier but it sure got my attention.
When we landed the communication people did a ctrl-alt-del and then everything came back, it worked on the flight back home so I guess all is good, but I sure hope that never happens as I am crossing the pond, that would suck!
OK well it’s now 0420 and bed time for me. I’ll post more pictures of my growing monkey when I can, it’s dark now but she is getting bigger… Aloha!
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