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{ 2008 02 28 }

a day of flight school in pictures

Our lazy class historian was finally replaced with one who does his job. I present to you my day:

The day begins getting on a bus to the airfield at 0445. The parking lot in those light conditions is unphotogenic.






We’re off the flight line and on the bus back to base by 1200. By that time, the afternoon schedule people are already preflighting the same helicopters we used that morning.

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Posted by coriolinus on Thursday, February 28, 2008, at 1545, and filed under flight school. Automatic tags: Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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Comment by ultimatepsi
2008-02-28 19:08:22

Thanks for that view of your life right now!

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Comment by moozeale
2008-02-28 19:14:13

Nifty!

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Comment by anonymous
2008-02-28 21:26:15

Fly me to the US.

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