A Typical Monday

Hi there. Since I have not written since 2 Christmases ago...it's probably about time. :-)

Well, I thought I would let you shadow me during a typical Monday here of training at Asas de Socorro. Several people have asked what my days/weeks are like so here we go......

Monday 8:00am -

To start off the week, all the team here at the headquarters in Anapolis gets together for a time of worship and sharing. After that, we also hear the news from the different bases up north and get briefed on all the projects going on for the week. Then we spend time in prayer.

It is always a great way to start the week and get everyone on the same page.

After this meeting, then everyone breaks up to go to their different areas. The Administrastion folks go to the office down the road. Mechanics go to the maintenance shop, mechanic students go to thier class, and we in the flight dept. go to our weekly flight operations brief.

Monday 9:30am-

During our pilot briefing we usually review any aircraft accidents that happened around the world during the past week to learn for others' mistakes.

We usually address any new flight procedures needed and hack out the flight training schedule.

Steve also leads a discussion about safety usually tied to some accident.

Please note..these accidents we usually discuss happen to others, not us! We have an excellent track record due to the intense focus on safety and correct precedures.

After this meeting, my week varies quite a bit.

Sometimes I'm off to help in the mechanic shop...we do inspections and repairs on our aircrafts as well as some outside customers to generate some revenue to help reduce our operational cost.

Other times I'm up for a training flight....

Or it's back to the books since I still have to take several tests to validate my airplane mechanics license. Yeah...I have to read all these books. I finished school 8 years ago, so I have some remembering to do.

At 12:00 I go home to my wonderful family for lunch. After lunch I take the kiddos to Portuguese class and then head back to the airport around 1:15pm to keep chugging away at any projects I have, study, or take another training flight.

We wrap up the day at 5:30pm and I'm off to pick Grady and Hadley and go home.

I'll go into more detail at a later post on some of my other projects.