trades gold, eats bacon, wants more peril, wears the minimum flair
SE TN
Joined August 2018
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I came within 0.5 seconds of an insurance claim, at the very least, when a flock of turkeys took flight perpendicular to me today
As I “ducked” my head, the lead bird was 2 feet to my right and closing
At 70mph, that would’ve hurt, a lot
I adore women pilots.
Out there doing what I decided I couldn’t.
7 YEARS AGO TODAY, completely out of the blue, I decided to become a pilot.
I was out on a walk with my family, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, when my husband casually said, “You should be a pilot.”
An hour later, I had made up my mind. I texted the one pilot friend I had and asked which flight instructor he used. I knew very little about flying and nothing about the process of becoming a pilot.
The next day, I started studying and signed up for my first lesson.
A week later, I took that first flight lesson.
And somehow, that random decision turned into a career I never could have imagined.
What a wild ride it’s been.
7 years down… and I’m still pretty amazed at where that one spur of the moment decision had taken me!
I have video of what I estimated to be 20gpm of rain water I found flowing from an electrical conduit carrying safety related power at a nuclear plant
I spun up the organization late at night with that one
I spent 3 days in a Fort Bridger truck stop due to similar conditions
My reefer trailer was full of lotions and shampoos that had to be heated to >40°F. That refrigeration unit was working hard.
