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Today I had to come to work even though I should be jumpseating. Apparently I’m in the wrong field of work. I should be the one looking up people’s backgrounds. You get to sit around all day and do nothing and get paid. It’s been 3 weeks and they’ve only finished 3 people. Anyways I spent the morning in the audio-visual room watching the Program Development guys narrate a script for the CBT. It’s nothing terribly special; they just read a script as one huge wav file. Right afterwards I separated the huge file into files so they can be used in authorware. Very exciting and it took about 30 min. Afterwards I played around with the airport familiarization for a little and waited for time to move a little closer to my death. Chipotle for lunch! Best part of the day. After lunch I had to listen to the Overwater emergency training and make a script out of it while Jake got to edit the Far East lesson. I want to edit the lessons because scripting is boring and I’m better at Authorware anyways. Spent the rest of the day looking up how to decrypt WEP keys until all of a sudden all my searches were blocked. I know they monitor the internet usage for keywords but I figured it was all for porn. So I cleared my history and erased it from the hdd and headed home! I guess the 12” powerbook isn’t good at WEP decryption because the airport extreme card sucks and there’s no pc card slot for a better one. I’ll figure something out or end up paying after my CFI ride (1 week ahhh)!.
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Today was boring. I probably spent it doing CBT scripts like always. That’s what I always do. Rachel called Jake and invited us to the airport. We thought she was going to give us a tour of the huge (and I mean huge) AA hangers at DFW were she works. No, we went to the damn terminal, went through damn security which took forever and went to freakin Bennigan’s. It took like 2.5 hours and sucked. Did get to see some cool things like an Embrear 170. It’s a new regional jet that looks like a mini 737. When you see it, you’re like “wtf! It’s so small” but I’d give anything to fly it. The rest of the day involved a lot of being bored. I probably had some project but I can’t remember. I’ve been pretty bad in keeping up with this log. Everyone probably thinks I don’t do a lot at work during the week, and yeah….you’d be right.
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Today wasn’t a great day. I turned in my jumpseat request before noon as I was supposed to. Heard rumors about not being able to go. All the interns were supposed to go see Lisa in the afternoon. She gave us our jumpseat authorization paperwork but said only 2 of the background checks were finished. Mine is not one, so I’m stuck at DFW this weekend. Not only do I not get to fly before my CFI checkride, but I can’t visit Alison this weekend either. As I got home, she called right away. It’s not like I could hide the bad news, she’d find out eventually so I told her I couldn’t make it there this weekend. It does suck that I haven’t gotten to see her much in the last month.
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Uhh today is Saturday so I guess I don’t have to work. I slept in and was later invited to go to the sixth floor museum is Dallas which is where Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK. It was really sad. I don’t really remember what happened after that, I’m sure we went out to dinner afterwards because we always do. I’m writing this way after the fact.
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Today was pretty cool. The morning was taken up mostly by a quarterly flight operations meeting that Jake and I got to go to. It was kind of like my classes that describe how the airline industry works, except not only faaar more interesting, but way more funny. There are a lot of good people here at AA. Man, they really hate Southwest! Mostly because of the fight over Dallas Love Field. SW has basically all the gates and I guess there was a law passed called the “Wright Amendment” that disrupted their monopoly and allowed a small number of American Eagle flights to get in. Of course, SW is throwing a hissy fit and there’s propaganda all over Dallas on both sides. Most of Dallas is owned by AA (It’s pretty obvious) but SW has a lot of space over by Love Field. Love Field is kind of like Chicago Midway in that it was the original airport, but they needed a bigger one so they built DFW similar to O’Hare. Some talks are even going about closing Love Field for noise and $, which AA is like “ok”. AA says that with SW having a monopoly at Love, and AA having one at DFW, it’s raising prices to get to Dallas and hurting the industry. AA isn’t looking too bad these days. They would have made a profit this year if it wasn’t for fuel costs (war). They still have the most airplanes and the most passengers in the world, and their MD-80’s alone would make them the 5th largest airline in the world. Wow! If the MD-80 didn’t suck so much that’d be more awesome. The rest of the day I sat around and waited to go home. No jumpseating this weekend. Should be next weekend.
Later in the day other interns and I went to see X-Men 3. It was okay in the crappy sort of way. It had a different director and instead of having character development and plot twists it had lots of cgi and things blowing up. A cliché end to an awesome and promising series. I guess the ending made it open for another sequel. We didn’t know to stick around past the credits. I hate it when they do that.
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