man what a shitty week at work. I had a wee incident with the helis resulting in a destroyed rotorblade. Then when things weren't shitty enough I got caught up in the moment with one of my engineers and we got a taxiway infraction for crossing the taxiway on foot without permission from the tower.. which could have cost STARS quite a bit of cash. ( Read more... )

Down in Calgary flying STAR-1 for the month ( Read more... )

So I'm in the middle of shifts right now, 5 days and no dispatches.. but this job is very firehall mentality- wait and wait until a call comes in. So far I've had three calls but we were stood down on all of them: first call was for a "plane crash" with 6 reported casualties, I was super excited what a first mission that'd be ( Read more... )

I've waited my whole life for tomorrow, i've looked forward to it more than the day I lost my virginity..

I am fucking terrified.

tomorrow I have my first operational shift flying for STARS.

Fuckin awesome. Excuse me while I throw up a little in my mouth.

I miss August, 2005 ( Read more... )

some things will never change I believe. Fantastic how she can still break my fucking heart.

I'm so tired with things. It's time for me to pack everything up, and as I do like clockwork, depart. I'm reaching my expiration date for the west coast. There are things out here I need to leave behind, and things I need to run away from. It's just the way it is, and most likely always will be.

So. I had a wee bit of an accident involving a rotor blade and my neck/shoulder. Ran out of pain killers early on in the night, and here I sit at 9:30 in the morning in terrible pain, and without sleep at all. The only positive thing is that I decided to spend the time writting music. I got two more songs written/recorded. They are pretty fucked up ( Read more... )

I just read this on THE CBC ( Read more... )

I got 91% on my last ATPL exam, so technically I'm a Captain now. Except I need to build flight hours and stuff before people have to start dealing with me as such, which makes sense. My check ride is coming up pretty quick here, last week of feb at the latest. I'm excited but stressed. I can't wait to get this shit done so I can finally just rock ( Read more... )