Our Visit to Weiser Air Park

We live a few blocks from this small air strip. It's 33 feet wide and 3500 feet long. Landing on it is like land on a dirt road, but there are a lot of people who fly there. Today we decided to swing by to pick up a book.

As we were pulling into the Air Park I said to Korri, "I wonder if Max will realize these are the airplanes that fly over the neighborhood." Just as I said that Max screamed and started kicking his feet in excitement. "Does that answer your question?" Korri sarcastically asked.

While I went in to get the book Korri chased Max as he ran from plane to plane checking out the tires, admiring the wings, and props. At one point a plane taxied by, Max stopped dead in his tracks as it passed, waved then went on. I got permission from the girl in the small shop to let Max sit in one of the planes.

I opened the door, Max ran as fast as he could and climbed up the strut trying to get in. Once he was in the seat he stood there in awe looking at the controls, instruments and radios. After checking out the cockpit he grabbed the yoke and swung it from side to side, while talking his own coded language.

When it was time to go Korri put him in his car seat and that's when the temper tantrum started. He was so upset to leave! As we drove off he cried and waved at the planes. It took a few miles and a sour straw candy for him to calm down. I decided that next time I have a day off and the weather is good, I'll take him flying with me.

Photos of Max

I was going through my hard drive and found these picutes of Max. Sorry, they were taken from our video camera so the images are really grainy. He loves walking around with this flag. Every time an airplane flys by Max will stop whatever he's doing, find it in the sky, point then wave while saying "DADOO". It's really cute. He does the same when he sees big trucks, boats, & trains.

It's been a while, since I've logged on. But I have good excuses.

I can't believe it's been two months since my last post! There is a lot to update. So I'll just do a quick summary now, since I have time, and add details later. Let me say that the last two months have been busy, stressful, exciting and rewarding. As a reminder I've been training with an airline. Since my last post, I passed the company, aircraft systems, and ops written exams. I moved onto the sim portion of training, worked through that. Took and passed my oral exam and flight checkride with a company check airman. Then last week finished IOE or initial operating experience (flying revenue passengers with a check airman). Korri and I have relaxed for a moment because I'm done. Well kind of done, now comes a year of probation and rough times for the airline industry. I only saw my family a couple of times in the past few months, so the best part is that I've spent some time with them. We've had some good times. Here are some photos I look like a limo driver! but I'm not although that might be a cool job. The CRJ When Max saw me in my uniform he looked at my hat and laughed! It only stayed on his head long enough to take the picture. I got bored and plotted out places I've flown to. The Red dots are places since being with this airline, blue are places I'm flying to this month and Green are places I've flown into before getting on with an airline. Most of these places I've flown into multiple times. I was really bored. Family time shopping, Max actually likes this hat. More family time!