A New Airplane on the Horizon

Well, I've slacked. First I suppose I'd blame it on being really busy, coming home every night after a 10 - 14 hour day, too tired and preferring to spend time with my sweetheart than with a cold piece of plastic. Then a slow season hits. I start flying about once a week and have no stories to tell, along with getting in lazy mode and just enjoying other blogs with out stretching my mind to write my own.

Today however, after flying only about 30 - 35 hours last month and this month starting out just as slow, I decide to spend some time with the ol' keyboard.

Last month, although not flying much I got to participate in a three day ground school after my Chief Pilot walked up to me at work one day and asked if I had gotten a manual yet. Slightly confused, I replied back "no I don't think so, what manual would that be?"
"O, the Beech 1900 one. I'm gonna train some of you higher time King Air F/O's on it." And then took me to his office and handed over an inch and a half thick black binder that contained everything a B1900 pilot need to know about the aircraft.

So now that the ground school is done, I am looking forward to saddling up in a new machine to do some training. Which I think is still a few weeks if not months away. But till then, I'll do my best to use my slow times to learn all that I can about operating this machine efficiently and safely.

As the front of my training binder says "the best safety device in any aircraft is a well trained pilot..."