I've got an interview! [update! update! page 10]

[LittleChickenLady]

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<*Tries not to giggle..*>

Poor Squishy..

<*Can't hold it in any longer*>

 

[dkvart1]

Love it! I have lostness problems all the time.. .now I know the acurate terminology!

 

[SourRoses]

Sorry for my terrible slackiness!

It was actually during the day.. and there were some brush fires over at the Twin Falls airport I was headed to. That airport has no controller (at certain hours) so it's just the other pilots giving each other heads up. Anyway, I let them know I was a few miles out before I listened to the chatter very long.. then all of a sudden the visibility is getting low as the whole area is enshrouded in smoke. So I'm looking, and looking.. and then the other pilots (a great deal of them it appers) started wondering about that plane they haven't heard from and should have seen by now.. understandably worried... and I'm having a kind 'duh' moment.. distracting myself trying to locate landmarks... and then I heard someone use my aircraft number... so I said (in completely brilliant Squishy manner)
"Uhhhh... I kinda hava a lostness problem here".
I could hear people snorkling as they responded to me

Apparently it's just my secret mission in life to inadvertently amuse everyone

However... actually flying at night was sooo much fun. So beautiful. So peaceful. Nevermind that I had to eat 3 cream filled doughnuts to keep myself alert until 10pm when the sun went down! Maybe there were some giggles. Maybe I said silly things.


Go on! Ask mom about the first time I took her up in the little plane. The last time also

. I can't imagine why

.

 

[LittleChickenLady]

Tee-hee.

So, ChooksinChoppers, what about that first, and last, time Squishy took you up in a plane?

Sounds exciting! I wanna go on a ride...

 

[LittleChickenLady]

Whoops, double post.
Stupid phone..

 

[LittleChickenLady]

Triple post, really?
Grrr!

 

[SourRoses]

It's really expensive? If it is, it should be fresh hand-tossed dough.
If it is expensive, and a dine-in type place... it is likely they have all kinds of pizza on the menu.. no? Perhaps you only saw the thin crusts?
It doesen't matter though.. LOL

No crust.. hmmm... the Dominos thin crust pizza, we left a small 1/4 inch without any sauce around the edge. Papa Johns.. sauce was supposed to go all the way to the edge. They'll tell you soon enough, I suppose.

Chopped pepperonis? Hmmm....


You brilliant girl! You used the correct terminology! How did you ever get so darn smart? Cheese-putter-onner is the correct word. You also have to figure out which tool is the thingie, and which the doo-daa.... It's all very technical and complicated, you know!

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

ok....first up everyone needs to know that I am terrified of heights and small planes tend to give one a leeeetle too much view

So miss Squishy gets her licence and WOW I get to be her first passenger after days of talking me into it

(actually I said ok..but if you hear screaming from me..just ignore it and fly the plane) She says we might as well make it worthwhile and camp at a grass strip her instructor took her to and it had a lovely river right by it so we could fish (thats another story in itself)
So we pack up the plane with the camping gear and buckle the 2 Jack russels in the back seat (good thing they didnt need any leg room)
and off we go. I hate the going up part so I am staring fixedly at the control thingies in front of me and she is circling around to gain altitude....at about 7000 ft my door pops open! now I knew from watching her safety videos that it wouldnt open any more than it did.. but STILL! I looked down (HUGE MISTAKE) and could see the ground wayyyyy down there

so I am clutching the door handle in my panic muttering to myself..."i'ts ok it's ok..were ok" over and over Squishy gets on the radio and finds the closest airport and lands so a guy can close the door properly for us from the outside. That done we take off again and once again I am staring fixedly at those same controls and wondering how I call the whole thing off without hurting her feeling....but I buck up and decide to be brave (r)

Finally we level out and I am told I get to be navigator (oh joy! i have to look at the ground) sooo unravelling a huge map is takes a long time in cramped quarters and the miss is telling me to hurry up so she knows what direction to go in ("Where's a GPS when you want one?") and no street signs or arrows on the ground saying "this way" So finally we follow the right river and through the right mountain pass and begin our decent to the grass strip landing safely! Yay! The custodian of the "airport" toodles out on his lawnmower with a trailer and helps us unpack and set up camp. we grab the box with the pictures of the air mattress on it and shake out.....paperwork! Oh no!
Sooo it was a pretty cold night up in them there mountains and the ground was hard and strewn with rocks. Squishy has a brilliant idea and breaks out the emergency blankets..warmer yes..but no padding

Lucky me both dogs wanted to sleep in my sleeping bag! hehehe!
We decide to break camp first thing and not spend another night (surprise!) Squishy jams her finger in the bathroom door and got sunburned knees from the day before while fishing...so she was having problems getting things done.
All packed up and off we go back to Boise airport no worries! eccept when we got to the airport and had to circle until some other plane landed so we come around the final turn and tower tells her to make it quick cause of the huge UPS plane thats right on her tail! Next thing she says "UhOH! (words you never want to hear from your 17 year old pilot) "What! what!" I say..."Oh dont worry Mum we just have to do a slip because I am too high" A SLIP???? Whats a SLIP???? she told me to "close my eyes and hang on and we will be down in a sec" Then proceeds to flip the plane on it's SIDE (wing facing down) and we are dropping like a ROCK!

I am hanging onto the door frame so hard with one hand..map covering my eyes with the other...screaming! "We are gunna DIE!" bracing for the hit...then she just leveled it out and landed smooth as silk

i couldnt wait to get out of the bloddy thing! my legs were all weak. walking back the car I said " That was fabulous flying hun and you are an excellent pilot...but dont ask me to go up again k?"

 

[SourRoses]

Ummm.. There was a GPS... I just wanted to distract you

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

Now we REALLY have hijacked poor little Chicken ladies thread...sorry!