New job coming up

[John Gervais]

Congratulations - if you fly into Copenhagen, give me a call!

[94touring]

Congratulations - if you fly into Copenhagen, give me a call!

Will do!

[MiniGene]

Congrats again!  I think it's cool as hell you're going to be flying the Freedom Bird.  I imagine that Ramstein Air Base, Germany and Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, will be a regular stop for you.  Do you think you'll be doing any runs to Japan and Korea? 

Those military charter flights are a crazy thing.  Sometimes they feel like riding a cattle car in the sky, and then other times it's the best feeling in the world (when you're coming home after a long time away). 

Can't wait to hear the stories and see the pictures of your new adventures.

[94touring]

Yes to Japan and Korea and all the others listed.  A cattle car with 382 seats!

[MiniGene]

And everytime I've flown on them all 382 of them have been filled!   50.gif

[94touring]

Wednesday I head to Ireland till Friday. So that's something.

[John Gervais]

Those military charter flights are a crazy thing.  Sometimes they feel like riding a cattle car in the sky, and then other times it's the best feeling in the world (when you're coming home after a long time away).

The worst military hop I ever had was a short flight from Sendai to Narita in what looked like an antique Cessna hobby plane with seating for 6 or 8.  Somehow the flight was 'overbooked' and I as the senior officer passenger got to ride on the porta-potty can.  Had to get there and it was the only flight available for another 4 days.

[MiniDave]

Your passport is in order? You won't be quarantined for 14 days in Ireland?

[94touring]

I'm unquarantine-able given my job.  Passport has been mandatory for me for a long time.

[BruceK]

Wednesday I head to Ireland till Friday. So that's something.

Shannon?  Dublin? 

[94touring]

Shannon.  I probably should look up the weather.

[BruceK]

Shannon.  I probably should look up the weather.

Cool. Have you been there before?  If you get some free time you might like Limerick nearby. Or Galway which is about an hour away. 

[MiniGene]

Glad you're working!  It's too bad you won't be able to enjoy the country this trip due to the lockdown.  I'm sure there will be many more to follow though.

[Jims5543]

Shannon.  I probably should look up the weather.

Whats the schedule?  Fly over wait 2 days fly back?

If possible grab a pint of Guinness, most likely to go, it is noticeably better there.  Besides the huge airfield, Shannon looks like an otherwise small town so not much to see there.

Not sure how free you are going to be to move around there, during normal times I would suggest a rental car and wandering.  Now?  Try to make the best of wherever you happen to be holed up.

Safe travels and good luck!! IIRC this is your check out flight, yes?

[94touring]

I'll be there for 26 hours.  Then fly to NC, then Texas and sit on call for 3 days, and home. Basically work has me tagging along this week with a crew to see how they operate. 

[Jims5543]

Bonus points if you work the word "surely" into every sentence you speak.

Double bonus points if you can say meow to the crew 10X and they never question it.

I have a lot of internets points, not just plain old internets points, I am talking Al Gore internets points.

[94touring]

Doing the walk around on the beast.

[minifrisco]

Where to now? 4.gif 4.gif

[94touring]

Where to now? 4.gif 4.gif

Headed back stateside today. 

[tsumini]

Doing the walk around on the beast.

GE 90 engines?

[94touring]

Doing the walk around on the beast.

GE 90 engines?

Nah the "small" rolls royce. 

[minifrisco]

You mean a BMW

[Jims5543]

You mean a BMW

Surely you jest.

[minifrisco]

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[94touring]

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bmw.  Rolls-Royce Holdings does aerospace.