Saturday, April 29, 2017

My Accomplishment for the Week

This week I have assessed the scope of required revisions to TDG Act training, helped the PRM analyze the root cause of audit findings, verified the capabilities of an FBO in another province to service our aircraft, met with control tower supervisors, and checked the insurance coverage on an airplane that will not be flying this year. You'd think I was a fricking grown up.

I also flew an airplane a couple of times. Remember when I used to go to work in order to fly airplanes? How did I get here from there?

If you are at the beginning of a pilot career, and you have skills you are willing to contribute related to scheduling, regulatory compliance, training, or management of manuals, highlight this on your resume. If I knew then what I know now, I would have walked into the office of the chief pilot of my choice and parlayed my previous experience managing revisions of regulatory compliance manuals into a PPC. I could have had quite a different career. Or maybe I would have ended up here sooner.

But that was not my accomplishment for the week. It was this line in a comment on an older entry of this blog:

Reading your blog inspired me to give pilot career a one more shot and went on with the training. Now I am a training captain in a real airline.

Wow. I inspired someone! Finding out you're inspiring is even better than chocolate. If someone inspired you, even if it was a long time ago, or even if you think they are too famous or important to care, consider sending them a note.

3 comments:

Doug Sinclair said...

For what it's worth, you inspired me to buy a Mooney.

If memory serves, you were highlighting the importance of staying the required distance from cloud when VFR. You said something like "you never know when some yahoo in a Mooney will come screaming out of a cloud." I was renting Cessnas from the flying club at the time, but thought "I should learn more about these Mooneys so I can become that yahoo."

A few years ago I bought an M20J (C-FTLF) and I have never regretted it.

Aviatrix said...

I hope you are having a glorious time screaming in and out of clouds!

lotnick said...

Hi Aviatrix, you have inspired me too! I will never forget when in 2005 I was flying a Seneca as my first job, renting a tiny room close to EPKK and in general just having a miserable time. Can't rmmber how I came across your blog but damn how I waited for your new entries. You know how Coelho said that "if you follow your dream the whole universe conspires to help you"... Your blog was such a help form me when I needed it most... Today I'm a LTC on A320, life is rock&roll and things are SO MUCH different than in 2005 but hey, you are my hero :-) best regards from EPGD!