4-Day Follies: (NOT) Captain's Log

by Pilot X

A year in the life of a real-life Airline Pilot (of awesomeness). Brining the fun and funny back to air travel one flight at a time. Ruthless mocking of passengers, pilots and anyone deserving and within visual range."What a great read! I totally enjoyed this book!" - The Author.The heady burden of being a Sky King requires a fair amount of insulation. The fun part (flying the plane) is at best half the job. The other half is waiting to do the fun part. Waiting in the hotel. Waiting for the plane to show up. Waiting for bags, people, maintenance, the rest of the crew, fuel, weather, the Midwestern hooker I called 2 hours ago, recognition of your awesomness, more pay, etc. Waiting sucks. Waiting will drive you bat shit crazy if you can’t come to terms with it. Find a little absurdity to wash it down. Make a little lemonade. There is silly in this job. Not in the cockpit. Not in the responsibility, but all around it. Stuck in the gooey bland horror of the waiting. The unforgiving task of being an Airline Pilot is a bathysphere of seriousness adrift in a jelloy sea of absurdity. (Lime I think. I can’t get the damn door open. Looks like lime.) Before deregulation and the inevitable tectonic calving and reconstitution of most of the legacy carriers, being an Airline Pilot was fun. The meteor impact of free enterprise consigned the slow to adapt dino-airlines to the deep, and shortly thereafter, market forces started this luge run to the cost bottom. That’s when the fun started to dry up. Affirmative Action, the Tailhook scandal, rampant PCism, the erosion of Captain's authority, pilot respectability, and the general pussification of America pretty much buried fun under a fusillade of pandering.I will recapture a little taste of the glory. And see what it tastes like!!(chicken)I will share this glory with you few, you happy few. But this glory is a class 8 corrosive substance under 49CFR Part 172. Consume with care to avoid burning yourself or anyone who's not properly insulated. (Common sense oven mitts sold separately.)

390 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 17, 2010

Reviews

[Steve Sorensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute, quick read, mens gym locker humor (which is exactly what happens behind the closed door), but irresistible writing and many absolute hilarious laughs. For crews this is your bible to get you through that tough 4 day!

[Esther · Rating 4 out of 5]

Came recommended. Cute and light. Fun.