Goodly morning all...
Thanks Ken, I read that article just the other day.
How was the noise level in that aircraft?
Larry...
Both the old girl and I had our own careers, she was home every night while I would get home maybe four straight days out of a month.
That was until I started flying out of Toronto all the time, then it was much easier to get home.
I used to be able to fly to Toronto which was a thirty five to forty minute flight and park our own aircraft at what was then called the MOT (Ministry of Transport) parking area. It was a secured area for aircraft and then take a vehicle to our operations. That worked fine for many many years until one day someone decided that area was too valuable to park aircraft on and took it away. Put up some dam thing, not sure what it was or is now...
Well then I had to drive to Toronto daily if I wanted to be home, that was a little over two hours in good weather one way.
Hundreds make that drive everyday now and think nothing about it..
Of course thousands sit in traffic going to work for two or more hours in Toronto one way and think nothing about that.
Pollution?
Now in my early days of flying there were no hours of duty time for aviators, finally the Ministry of Transport now Transport Canada smartened up and put a limit on duty time and flying hours for Commercial Aviators.
Being home we always did things as a family, individualism was encouraged along with contact sports, education, cadets/scouts/guides/4H and of course aviation.
When home and at the supper table I would ask what each one had learned at school that day.
If one of them said nothing.
They stayed home the next day. I would tell them I was not sending them to school to learn nothing.
They would cut grass, weed gardens, clean vehicles and windows with newspaper and vinegar and lots and lots of other chores until the others arrived home from school.
Then they would do their regular chores.
Harsh, I don't think so, they went to school and learned something.
We went to the teachers and parents nights all the time.
I would warn the teachers in language they understood,
do not load our children down with hours of homework, they have chores and a family life.
If you can't teach them in school, don't send the work home and expect it to be done...end of story...
I paid their wages and I expected them to do their job at the school which my taxes helped build.
There was no rural school busing back then either.
Our children walked to school with the neighbours in groups, the oldest watching out for the youngest.
It was only a forty minute walk each way.
They never missed a day in winter or summer like the kids today being on the school bus.
Sure there were wolves and traffic but no body got ate or hit by a vehicle.
In the winter if the roads were not cleaned they still went.
School busing makes kids lazy...
They are also polluting fuel guzzling monsters...
I think I was popular with the teachers...not sure...
Both sets of grandparents played a big part in our family, really helped out when I was away for most of a month.
Being retired I know they enjoyed it...
Of course things change as you climb the aviation ladder, going from being a Captain to an Instructor/Check Pilot/Chief Pilot , the wages became much better with a lot more time off.
Then the union got in...won't go there....
You only get out of life which you put into it, our children raise our grandchildren much the same way we raised them.
As aviators our children can tell folks the same thing I am telling you lot, this old world owes me nothing.
I have seen her in all her beauty from a perch many others can only dream of....
Would I do it all over again...NO
I would like to be a CHEF or at least a CHIEF COOK AND BOTTLE WASHER....
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