Back to the Nest. Part 2.

This is the second part of the story. The beginning is here (click to go).


May be, from the first part, you have got a question about this photo on the right?

Well, you probably know that lots of hotels have laundry and iron services. Usually these are paid services. If we will talk about business trips which happen regularly often, and an employee (a pilot in my case) usually stays at the same hotel, a good employer signs a contract with the hotel, wich includes a payment or discount for these services.

But only 10 years ago a common russian pilot could not even dream that it is possible! Often, he had to live in such conditions where a dry roof above his head was cosidered to be a good service! And nobody was dissapointed or, moreover, angry about it! It was the part of pilots' life, pilots were already happy if they had the job, the salary, and there was no need to be night taxi drivers.

As for me, I've caught these times in the beginning of my career. These were very romantic times.

Back to the Nest!

This story is about my visit to Novosibirsk which happened in the middle of May, 2015. My airline had set me a task to check some pilots from our Novosibirsk base, so I selected three Captains and planned routes to deal with this order.

Happy New Year, dear readers! Happy new challenges!

First of all I'd like to wish you all the best in the New Year! Let all your sweet dreams come true, all the challenges be achieved, and new ones (only good and interesting!) appear ahead!

As for me, I have some.

ENGLISH

I kept silence for a long time, but it was a busy period. May be you remember, that I have started this blog in attempt to train my English?

Really, it was the first reason. But why do I want to improve?

Saturday sky photos from Tivat and Moscow

Hi!

Though I fly rarely, but flights are still interesting.

I'd like to post several nice (in my opinion, of'course) photos from the skies.

Lets go!

Nostalgy

In 2005 I became the youngest B737 first officer in my airline (may be even the youngest in the whole fleet) which was named "Siberia" (nowadays it is called as S7 Airlines, but actually consitsts of two carriers - Siberia and Globus. I'm working for the last one).

I was young and looked somehow like him:

Trip to Chita

My country is big.

When guys who live in Moscow come to their offices, their mates in Vladivostok return to their homes. It will take you about 9 hours of flight from Moscow to Vladivostok and still there will be a place to fly, because Russia doesn't end with Vladivostok.

One of my recent flights was to Chita. It took me 5 hours and a half to get there. Non an unusual local route, as you could understand from above. We also use to fly to Irkutsk (4.7h), Ulan-Ude (5.2h) and Yakutsk that is more than 6 hours of flight on B737 from Moscow.

Gloomy Tivat. Part 2/2

We have reached 5000 feet. Extended the flaps to 1 and then to 5. Podgoritsa sent us to Tivat Tower, so, the most interesting things are going to happen right now.

Who will become a winner - the Nature or the green Bird with the busy crew and a quiet cabin?