Just a job....

Good bit of flying today!  Actually over six hours, which is half of what I flew the entire six weeks of last tour!  I'm in a good mood tonight!   You never know what you are going to end up with, for you have bases where a hundred hours plus per tour is standard, to bases that fly considerably less than even we do in Mtwara.  You don't have that much say in your postings, but I'd like to think most pilots do what they do to fly, and high flying bases are very much sought after.  We were often flying seven hours a day in Turkey.  I loved every minute of it!

Unfortunately I have met more than a few that just view it as a job and income, and it always makes me a little sad.  I remember a gas station in Cayuga,  Ontario, not far from where I grew up, and there was this huge blown up photo of the owners son, standing in some Northern Ontario muskeg, with an old Bell 47 helicopter on floats behind him.  I knew the first time I looked at that poster.....that's what I want to do!  It was a decade later, and I found myself flying Bell 47s in Northern Ontario.  You have to have the dream before you can start chasing after it.

Well over 10,000 hours and nearly thirty years later, the novelty isn't even starting to wear off......