Phew, just made the airport run. Will Rogers World Airport is in the southwest part of OKC and I live in the northeast part. It is interstate 95% of the way, but it is still a 25 minute drive on the heavy traffic interstate.
I had to pick up my business partner. He has been out for a week flying a job for (redacted due to confidentiality contract) that is a flying big project for (redacted due to confidentiality contract) that all we did was provide pilot services. The company that manufactures the aerial camera we use, sold (redacted due to confidentiality contract) two of the camera systems like we have.
The have a big project for (redacted due to confidentiality contract) and needs help to fly it all.
Anyway the point is that the client that hired us just sent an email to the company that manufactures the camera to say that my business partner is nearly a hero for the flying he did. They (redacted due to confidentiality contract) had hired another pilot that spent a week trying, and got very little accomplished. My partner was showing (redacted due to confidentiality contract) how to use the flight planning software properly, and pointed out the issues they were making by doing it the way they were. The big light bulb went on and they understood. They have a terabyte of images to process and want my partner back next week. The day rate may have to go up.
