7 November, 2011
Well I've just had an interesting conversation. The fixed-wing pilot is in the camp for the day (apparently they fly an average of 5 hours a day!! Lucky bastards!) and he's a black Tanzanian who apparently now lives in the States. His wife and kids are in DC (say Hi to them, Tig!) and he hasn't seen them in a year! (a tangent, but poor guy!)
Anyway, he was telling me that he was enrolled at one of the training schools that the 9/11 hijackers trained at, and personally knew one of the pilots that flew into the WTC. How weird is that!? He said it stuffed his training prospects up properly, of course. The school was closed for a year or so, and him being a foreigner, was unable to continue his flight training for nearly 3 years!
What's even more crazy is that he was working for FEDEX at the time, and was contracted to the Pentagon, and was actually driving to the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, was only 3 minutes away from arriving and going into the building when he saw the plane fly over his head and then heard the boom and saw the smoke! He said he got on scene faster than any of the emergency vehicles! Incredible story!
And that's my news. This is the 3rd day now I haven't been flying - I'm now starting to hear stories of pilots sitting all month without flying and leaving in annoyance - thankfully that hasn't happened to me, but I'm also not exactly being flown off my feet. Anyway, I said I'd do 2 trips and take it from there, so I will do that and then see what's out there...
Hope everyone is having an awesome MONDAY!!!! bwaaahaaahaaa!!!!!
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