Trip Update

Listening to - As Tall As Lions - Into The Flood

My trip to Nebraska was a success and who knows, I may even move out there.

I got to visit the Strategic Air Command Museum while I was out there. Check out all the great aircraft and my attempt at photography here.

I also took some pictures and video while I was en route to OMA as well as some photos of our attempt to get onto Offutt AFB. I haven't uploaded the video yet (I want to edit it a bit, any suggestions on video editing software?). You can see those here.

Things were a bit crazy out there since we built out the stairs and framed out my sisters basement so I didn't get a chance to visit R90 (Omaha TRACON). I did find the number for the tower at OMA though and they had a very funny voice mail message. It went something like this...

"Hi! You've reached the Federal Aviation Administrations Eppley Air Traffic Control Tower in Omaha! We're just a little busy right now, so go ahead and leave us a message and we'll try to call ya back!"

I was going to leave a message but I always feel like a burden when I ask for tours and such. I know I shouldn't, but that's the New Yorker in me. My sister laughed at me when I told her I was so confused as to why people kept saying "Hi" to me in stores lol.

When I was getting on the flight from OMA to MSP the Captain was standing by the desk grabbing the updated weather for MSP. I sucked it up and went ahead and asked if I could grab jump seat (I figured it didn't hurt to ask!). His company reg's are that he can't allow anyone without a 121 cert up front during flight, but he offered for me to come up after the flight if I had time. Unfortunately, once we got to MSP I had about 15mins to run 15 long gates down to catch my JFK flight. The capt. was nice enough to ask how many hours I had and he said if I got bored with ATC that his company (Mesaba) is hiring with just 250hrs like crazy. I forgot to ask how much multi they were looking at but I think I'll do some research to find out.

Cardinal RG update: taking longer than expected. Finding multiple issues with the A/C that need fixing. Delayed now until possibly the end of April.

C-150 update: Needs a bath... Working on that once the town turns on the public water at ISP.

So that's it for now. I like it when I can turn family trips into aviation trips as well heh...

Matt