Bachelor pad sold, new house bought, year going well. What could happen?
I grew up in Alameda, CA, and read "Fate is the Hunter" for the first time when I was a kid. In the mid-80s I learned to fly hang gliders at Dillon Beach, moved on to fixed wing aircraft, and built my time in Santa Rosa and Petaluma. Like Ernie Gann, I started my flying career at Newark Airport and for the last 17 years I've been based there, dodging Fate and learning about flying, and myself.
Recently, my company announced that they were opening a 787 base in San Francisco. When the results came out I was holding a position, and will leave soon for training. I'm going to miss the challenges of flying out of Newark, but after 12 years of commuting from Seattle the 6 hour flight each way has suddenly gotten old this last year.
25 years after my second "first solo"*, I'm coming home...
*Pilots always remember their first solo, the first time they flew an airplane without an instructor. While I solo'd a Piper Tomahawk in October 1989, I consider that my true "first solo" was my first lesson in a hang glider, when I flew a Super Lancer named Betsy by myself. Thanks, Everett.
I grew up in Alameda, CA, and read "Fate is the Hunter" for the first time when I was a kid. In the mid-80s I learned to fly hang gliders at Dillon Beach, moved on to fixed wing aircraft, and built my time in Santa Rosa and Petaluma. Like Ernie Gann, I started my flying career at Newark Airport and for the last 17 years I've been based there, dodging Fate and learning about flying, and myself.
Recently, my company announced that they were opening a 787 base in San Francisco. When the results came out I was holding a position, and will leave soon for training. I'm going to miss the challenges of flying out of Newark, but after 12 years of commuting from Seattle the 6 hour flight each way has suddenly gotten old this last year.
25 years after my second "first solo"*, I'm coming home...
*Pilots always remember their first solo, the first time they flew an airplane without an instructor. While I solo'd a Piper Tomahawk in October 1989, I consider that my true "first solo" was my first lesson in a hang glider, when I flew a Super Lancer named Betsy by myself. Thanks, Everett.
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