6 am call out

Got called out at 6am this week on Wednesday when another pilot's wife went into labour and therefore couldn't do his flight that day.

So it was an early morning off to Edmonton, to hang out there for most of the day, then back to Calgary and pickup some more folks and head down to Palm Springs for the night. Only got to spend 12hrs there and it was back up to Calgary the next morning.

We've been having really crazy weather here in Calgary. It goes from being a nice sunny and warm 13-15 degrees, and then it's a blizzard outside the next morning, and then the cycle repeats. Unfortunately it was during the blizzard cycle that I drove to work at 7am. Took about 3 times as long to get there, and then we had to deal with snow and ice and all that crap with the plane too. We required anti-icing and then as we went to go we got in a HUGE lineup of airplanes that took 20 mins to taxi for takeoff. Then we had a problem on our takeoff roll, just a flap setting that jumped out of place and sounded an alarm, so we aborted the takeoff (only going about 50km/hr) and had to taxi back and get in line again for takeoff. In the end, after all the delays, the clients could have been in Edmonton in the same amount of time had they just driven!

This weekend looks nice, 16 degrees and sunny so I'm looking forward to it!