Summary of Kerry McCauley's Ferry Pilot

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was constantly getting into trouble, and I dreamed of adventure. I eventually joined the Army National Guard at age 17, and went off to basic training between my junior and senior years.
#2 I loved flying, and I was good at it. I was eventually cleared to solo, and on my way to becoming a pilot. I was having the time of my life, until I met Kathy. I was married to her shortly after.
#3 I had lucked into a job as the property manager of a new office building in downtown Minneapolis, and my life changed quickly. I dropped out of college and joined the corporate world. I loved it for a while, but I knew that I wasn't where I belonged.
#4 I was a pilot in the National Guard, and I wanted to be a ferry pilot. I didn’t have the money to get all the necessary ratings, but I was motivated to keep working toward getting my pilot’s license.

Sujets

• Sciences appliquées
• Ingénierie
• Sciences appliquées
• Sciences appliquées
• Ingénierie
• Transport
• Civil
• Engineering
• Technology
• Sciences et techniques
• Transportation
• Love
• Love (disambiguation)

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 31 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822564268
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Kerry McCauley's Ferry Pilot
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was constantly getting into trouble, and I dreamed of adventure. I eventually joined the Army National Guard at age 17, and went off to basic training between my junior and senior years.

#2

I loved flying, and I was good at it. I was eventually cleared to solo, and on my way to becoming a pilot. I was having the time of my life, until I met Kathy. I was married to her shortly after.

#3

I had lucked into a job as the property manager of a new office building in downtown Minneapolis, and my life changed quickly. I dropped out of college and joined the corporate world. I loved it for a while, but I knew that I wasn't where I belonged.

#4

I was a pilot in the National Guard, and I wanted to be a ferry pilot. I didn’t have the money to get all the necessary ratings, but I was motivated to keep working toward getting my pilot’s license.

#5

The trick is to fill your experience bag before your luck bag runs out. Every time you survive doing something stupid or dangerous, you take a little out of the luck bag and put it in the experience bag.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was introduced to skydiving by a friend. I was nervous, but excited. I was going to jump out of a plane! One of the adventures I’d been dreaming about my whole life was about to come true.

#2

I had to find a way to pay for my new addiction. I'd quit taking flying lessons when I was halfway done, and now I wanted to fly skydivers. I'd meet the chief pilot, John Quist, who would hire me to fly skydivers.

#3

I was eventually allowed to jump solo from 9,500 feet. I was shocked at the change in JQ's attitude. I thought I'd put myself on his permanent shit list, but now he was letting me skip the last two training jumps and go solo.

#4

I was a first-time jumper, and during a jump one sunny Saturday, I heard a plane fly overhead and watch as another first jump student left the plane and his parachute opened wide. But when I got there, the student was dead.

#5

Kathy and I had been skydiving together for about a year when she decided she wanted to jump. She made her first training jump the next weekend, and was hooked. We went out to the dropzone the next Wednesday after work so she could get a couple of training jumps in. On her first jump that afternoon, she flew a little too far downwind over a large stand of trees and barely made it back to the field for landing.

#6

I spent every weekend, holiday and most days after work out at the dropzone. I became close with one girl in the group, named Cathy, and we began to spend time together. I wasn’t exactly dating her, but I spent more time with her than any of Kathy’s other friends.

#7

I learned to fly skydivers, and after passing my check ride, began teaching other pilots how to fly jumpers. I would fly skydivers, and then fly jumpers to get them back to the DZ. Every takeoff was an adventure.

#8

I loved flying loads, and my first big test came on a cold fall day when the club tried to get twelve skydivers in a freefall formation. I was chosen to fly the left side of the formation, Shirley Christensen, our only female pilot, flew right chase, and JQ flew lead.

#9

I was low on the totem pole, and the plane I was flying was the least equipped and most beat up of the fleet. I wanted to stay out of the clouds, but JQ took us right into them. The clouds started getting darker, and I began to fear for my safety.

#10

I was able to land the plane safely, but I was shocked at how quickly I'd lost 4,000 feet. I was half way to the ground! I vowed to speak up next time I felt someone was wrong.

#11

I had no idea that ten months later, I'd be sitting in that plane, knowing exactly how I was about to die. I had flown Snoopy down to Alabama, picked up the two fledgling rotor heads, and flown them back to Minnesota.

#12

The four of them stood around the flight planning room studying a giant aviation wall map of the United States, trying to decide what to do. The FAA weather briefer had told them that a large area of snow was moving into central Minnesota and was scheduled to dump six to eight inches of snow over the entire area before it passed.

#13

I was relieved that we had made it out of the situation, but I was still nervous. The sound of the engines dropping and the runway lights flashing by as Lee began the landing flare made me think about what was about to happen.