A Flightsim Adventure Part Two

[DAVIDSTRAKA]

Great, now I’m Jefe? Didn’t see that coming. I do have an alibi :)

[flightsimg]

It's likely another Straka! LOL

[DAVIDSTRAKA]

Great, now I’m Jefe? Didn’t see that coming. I do have an alibi :)

 

Rare, but there are more out there!

[andyjohnston]

When you fly as a passenger on a plane rather than as the pilot, you just sit back and relax, it's boring.

 

Just the same, I was happy to get in to New York, where I caught a cab to the UN building. I pulled out my phone and brought up the list of recent numbers. The one I had been given was practically right at the top. it seemed as though so much time had passed when it had only been a few days. I pressed it.

 

 

The first time I had called, and answer had come immediately, this time the phone rang several times. "I wasn't expecting to hear from you so soon," came a familiar voice.

 

"Yeah, well, there's been a bit of a...snag."

 

I think you'd better come in, you know where the door is."

 

Indeed I did, so I went around to the side where I'd ben before, and took that same long elevator ride down. Samuelson was waiting when the doors opened.

[andyjohnston]

"So...I'm done now, right?"

 

With raised eyebrows, Samuelson and the other (who's name I still didn't know) looked at each other. Finally he spoke. "No, you aren't done." Under my breath, I swore. "In fact, we may just need you now more than ever." Exactly what I didn't want to hear.

 

The next morning I was at JFK with the rain pouring down in front of an aircraft anything like I'd ever seen.

 

 

I boarded and took my seat. After a while, the plane started to move, and the liftoff was one of the smoothest I'd ever felt. We turned to follow the course and I relaxed in my seat. But it was only a few minutes later that I heard the engines spool up again as I was pressed back into the seat.

 

 

It was shortly after I was given the option of going up to see the cockpit, like I might say no!

 

 

The flight lasted a while longer, until we finally descended and landed, coming to a stop much faster than I thought would be possible.

[Macroburst]

"Great, now I’m Jefe? Didn’t see that coming. I do have an alibi."

 

Yes yes. I'm sure the Honda Jet can be easily modified for a.i. flight.... :confused:

[Macroburst]

Good series Andy.

Keep em coming!

[DAVIDSTRAKA]

"Great, now I’m Jefe? Didn’t see that coming. I do have an alibi."

 

Yes yes. I'm sure the Honda Jet can be easily modified for a.i. flight.... :confused:

 

Ha! I have no clue how to do that ;)

[andyjohnston]

There's something I've learned over the almost quarter of a century I've been flying. People think that if you're a pilot, you can fly anything. As such, I was once again horrified to find the next ride they had set up for me:

 

 

We flew in formation to Straka's airfield to take it out. Okay, everyone else would fly in formation, I'd do everything I could to end up in the right place at the right time. When it was my turn to take to the runway, I powered up and before long found myself climbing to a ridiculous altitude. I adjusted the throttle and dropped back down, following my wingmen as I poked the buttons on the panel hoping to figure out how to make things work. I did manage to change the brightness on the heads up display.

 

 

 

We flew to the field and I just had time to catch a glimpse of it over my shoulder before it erupted in flames.

 

 

Then I turned around. Once again I found myself climbing uncontrollably. Just short of 70,000 feet the plane ran out of speed and dropped. I couldn't control it as it flopped around falling 25,000 feet in the next few minutes.

 

 

Through absolute dumb luck, I was able to get the aircraft to settle down, then navigated back to the field we had taken off from using the time-honoured tradition of "point where you want to go and hope for the best."

 

I cleared the runway and once I was out of the plane I learned they had no further use for me at the moment. But, I was told, I could expect to do more work for them in the future, so they agreed to fly me home.

 

I got home and the next time I logged into my bank noticed they had paid me.

 

$1.00, minus tax.

 

Which made me think of the time that...well, that's another story.

[DAVIDSTRAKA]

Ha! I wasn’t there and that is not the main base. Your intelligence report is faulty (evil laugh) :)

[flightsimg]

I got home and the next time I logged into my bank noticed they had paid me.

 

$1.00, minus tax.

 

:)