1118 Leaving Oak Harbor in General
- July 1, 2022, 4:18 a.m.
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One of the things you get good at as an aviator is keeping notes. At one point I actually designed a kneeboard card with parallel blocks. You never know when the powers that be are going to demand a minute by minute accounting of incidents and episodes.
Going through files I found this nugget of us leaving Washington in 2003. I don’t keep notes anymore. But up to a couple years ago when I was still flying I still did the “switch, heat, squawk, clock.” and write down the time before pushing the throttle forward. A little rudder and let’s go flying.
(Note We were moving from Oak Harbor WA to Lexington Park MD. Frankie was our 120# Rottweiler.) Grandpa was an Eagle that lived in Penn Cove park. He would sit on top of telephone/power poles. He was wider than the pole.)
1118 Leaving Oak Harbor
1330 I-90 Interchange
XX25 Snoqualmie Pass
XXXX Frankie Puke at rest stop
XXXX Horses Monument
1658 Spokane
XXXX Jackass in corvette
1741 Post Falls (Stop for the night)
0718 On the road again
0819 Snow (Montana Border)
0817? Montana
0830 Trapped behind old folks in a Camper
0847 Beauty of Western Montana
0848 Biggest crow in the world - Bigger than “Grandpa” the patriarch of the Penn Cove Eagles.
0934 Missoula
0957 Big brick Prison or Powerplant - Missing windows and dark, bars on windows
1028 Frankie Poopatude
1128 Bar/Store/Casino/Laundromat
1143 Butte
1151 Continental divide (6393’)
1215 Abandoned homesteads, rusted cars etc
1215 30’s sedan lying off side of highway (old highway)
1216 Homesteads “Fuck it, this is too hard” and left
1809 When cowboys didn’t have cell phones and cowgirls didn’t have pierced eyebrows
0934 On road again outa ? Montana
1048 Billings
1050 X2 notes Calfs staying with mommies
1122 Crow Indian res
1206 leaving res
1206 Entering Wyoming
1527 South Dakota
Last updated July 03, 2022
roseystar ⋅ July 01, 2022
Very interesting how you did it in down time too! During my stint of working in the airport this note-keeping tendency (or lack of it) really marked me out as being non-aviation background compared to my industry colleagues. There'd be an incident and I'd be like..."well, Al was just back from break so I'd say it would have been shortly after 1". Meanwhile ex-Navy and 25 years aviation industry Al whips out his little notebook with every possible required detail in recorded in there.
Duke roseystar ⋅ July 01, 2022
It is a little obsessive, but god help you if you can't answer what/when/who questions!
Telstar ⋅ July 02, 2022
And I thought I was OCD for keeping up with sales tax on every purchase......... :)