Saturday, March 3, 2012

Oh yes about Tim

Tim is almost there. He has jumped all the hoops (he thinks) and is today doing a "fam" flight. Familiarization flight- in the jump seat of a flight to Bangkok. They do a few fam flights.  Fam flights let them get to see a few airports, learn the names of some. So not everything is new. Singapore is Changi. Often airports are named other than the name of the city they service. So it makes it easier to find them on his charts if he knows where they are!
He has a few days of fam flights, 2 courses that Tiger has yet to give and in a week or so , he should be on the line.
He did "touch and goes" the other day in Indonesia. Touch and goes are where they take an empty airplane and you actually show them you can land and take off a real airplane. Up to then everything is in the simulator. He was so excited to be actually flying again. He really loves flying. He's a lucky man. (I say he likes to be boss somewhere. In the cockpit he is boss!)
So in a week or so, I will report that he is "on the line"!

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