Many people think they know all about the devil-may-care life-on-the-razor's edge existence of an airline pilot's existence. They have no idea.Movies such as "Catch Me If You Can" seem to show the public the truth about the flying life of a crew. The double-entendre sex talk with the flight attendants, the first-class hotel stays with banks eagerly giving us money for bad checks (OK, that part is true) and all the exotic locations we fly into and out of.Our life is more modest, our days more ordinary. Today was such a day. A simple duty period smack in the middle of a "four day hostage crisis" or what we airline types call a four-day rotation.There is nothing special about this day. If anything, it is a good example of average and a poor example of outstanding. The names have, of course, been fabricated, and the locations, while being real, are not important to the account. Normal airline flying days happen all over the world much the same as this one.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/ceo-of-the-cockpit-17a-day-in-the-life