25 October, 2008

Visitors

Last Friday I had a chance to get into the cockpit of an AMP C-130, it is a C-130 that has all new “glass” instruments instead of the old steam gauges that I am used to. I don’t know if I will ever get to fly behind one of these but this is the future, it even has a HUD.


Look at all those buttons

I thought it was really neat because my friend Jen worked on this project with GE and did a lot of the testing with the autopilot =) I think it’s so neat that I know people that are working on these cool projects!

I also got a nice surprise and had fun seeing my buddies Chris and Andrea, they were passing through on their way back to Cheyenne from Montgomery Alabama. Yep they just got to drink that wonderful Kool-Aid for the last month and now they are free to return to society.


Andrea and Chris (related....?)


The party animal!

We ate at Boscos on the river and then Chris, Thomas and myself decided to make it a long night. We stayed out and partied harder than I had in a long time, well maybe not harder but at least longer, I got home around 0330!

Chris and I had some breakfast at Cracker Barrel and then he hit the road. I went over to Thomas’ house and helped paint the new babies room, I guess I forgot to take pictures but it’s a nice baby green.

This week at work was a lot of ground training and the week ended with my first flight on Friday. I flew to Monroe, LA and it was a good flight. It was a little different sitting in the right seat and flying a plane that I don’t get to fly that often, in fact I it has been at least 2.5 years since I had sat in the right seat of an E model 130. All in all it went fine but I would have like to be done a little earlier than 1600 on Friday but hey I got a 3 day weekend =)

Last night I went to the first dollar theater I had ever been too, I saw Pineapple thunder? With Thomas, it was funny and I was more impressed that the movie cost, get this, a dollar! Yea it is cheaper than renting a movie! Thomas said that the theater was the nicest dollar theater he had ever been to but to me it was just as nice as a normal theater so wow, good to know.

Today is a beautiful day but I have been doing chores but hope to get out of the room soon.
Oh I filled up this week for under $40!!!! Yea gas here in little rock for below $2 a gal, I paid $1.99 a gallon. At first I was like this is great, only $2 a gallon… but then I am like this is really messed up that I think $2 a gallon is cheap. I guess this is progress.

Almost forgot, E, ya my little sister, got to fly the F-22 this week for the first time!!! Yep you’re right it only has one seat so her first flight was solo! The messed up part is she is coming from flying the F-15 and she says that the F-22 has a lot of power… I am like you are saying the F-15 (world time to climb record holder) was not as powerful as this thing? Let’s just say that she can notice a difference =)


She is one amazing girl!

OK time to get out of this room, have a great weekend!

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