Hey everyone, sorry I’ve been slacking this past week on posting. Had the weekend off so didn’t really have any motivation to post. All this month I have the S1 shift, which if you recall from my post about schedules that means I have ready reserve at the airport from 6AM-2PM. It sounds terrible but really im sort of adjusting to it well. I normally still stay up pretty late about 12-1AM just because that’s what im used to and I work best that way. I’ll basically take a nap at the crash pad from the time I go to bed to 4:20AM when my alarm goes off. I take the 5AM shuttle to the airport and usually sign in by 5:30AM. Once I get signed in and to the crew room I go right to our “quiet” room where we have a couple of recliners, I’ll get comfy in those and finish off the night of my sleep, sometimes I’ll sleep all the way till 11-12 if im not called, so in the end I still get an easy 8-10 hours of sleep. It’s also nice because more often than not I get to sleep through about 6 of my 8 hours on duty. All of this works great until your phone rings at 6:20AM.
Yup that’s what happened to me last week. Just as I was getting comfy to finish off my night of sleep my phone rang at 6:20AM and it was crew scheduling. Apparently the plane that stayed overnight in Nassau was broken and I was assigned to ferry a new plane out to Nassau to rescue the passengers. Captain and I blasted off with an empty airplane and no flight attendants to Nassau at 7AM. After we were shutdown I learned I was being marooned in Nassau until the broken plane was fixed and they would fly a new Captain out later that day to take the fixed plane home. Not really sure why they just didn’t have the captain I flew out with also fly back with me but whatever, crew scheduling often times has a mind of their own. After getting things sorted out I learned I would be sitting in Nassau for about 4 hours. Took the time to get some breakfast do a little shopping around the airport and got some reading in.
The new Captain finally showed up 2 flights later and we quickly got on our way back to Miami. Flight went pretty smoothly, again a completely empty plane with no flight attendants. It was my leg flying home and was met with a nice 15kt crosswind, doesn’t sound like much but the ATR has a relatively narrow wheelbase and a high wing which causes it to become a handful in even a small amount of cross wind. We flew through a good downpour on final which quickly became a stout little cell with a lot of lightning which caused us to have to sit in the plane for an extra 15-20min due to the ramp closing once we parked.
That was pretty much the excitement from last week. I’ve been keeping a photo album on facebook, here is the public link which should allow anyone to view this one album even if you’re not a member of facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150208132207880.318424.507817879&l=49a1206d98&type=1
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