Thursday, June 21, 2012

Full Bore

The last 4 days have been a whirlwind.  We had a 4000 line km deadline to meet with the client by June 21st, and we arrived onsite on the 15th.  Normally it takes about a week to get good weather and a good calibration flight down, and set up our other ground equipment before we're off to the races surveying.  On top of that, 4000 line km is roughly 4 full days of flying.  Well, we lucked out with good weather, a good calibration flight on the first try, and we've been going full bore since.  We finished over 4000 line km with a day to spare.  That's gotta be some kind of record!  Almost 20 hrs flight time in two days, lol.

Today was spent revving back a little bit as our inspection is coming due, and we have a lot of catchup with paperwork and setting up the crew house that we plan on moving in to.  Tomorrow we'll spend some time training - I have my Captain upgrade to get done, and then I'll be renewing my Co-Captain's annual training. Then airplane inspection.  Much to be done.

As for the flying, its not nearly as interesting as France or Ireland, or even northern Canada.  Offshore is just... water.  We haven't even seen any boats or whales yet.  Oh well, you gotta take the good with the bad, at least I'll be logging multi-PIC time soon.

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