Good morning.
I "get" to go fly a project today. Yea baby, the glamour of the aviation business brought into sharp focus of reality. It is forecast to be a 103 degree day and the humidity is high. Heat index will be in the WTF range. I "get" to go stand on a black tarmac at 2:30 this afternoon and hook up the camera system, then sit in the nice warm embrace of the sun inside a nice big aviation window sauna and put on headphones to cover my ears. It feels great once we crank up that big cooling fan on the front of the airplane, just to get the wind. Once we get to 5,000 feet it should be down to 60 or 70 and that will feel great. It will then suck big time to drop down into the sauna to land, unhook the camera, and get back to my car that has been sitting in the sun for a couple of hours.
It is the part they never mention in the brochures of learning to be a pilot or in books about the glory of flying in the wild blue yonder. I will not need a leather bomber jacket and gloves today.
