westsideimagery

Tuesday night...Pretty crazy week thus far in terms of workload. Right now, I'm in Mobile, Alabama doing some job training type stuff. It's pretty fun, we've been practicing landing on the back of really small boats...trust me, that'll make ANYbody nervous. We've also been practicing various search and rescue scenarios which is pretty much our bread and butter. I enjoy it a whole lot, I'm just really tired after putting in some long twelve-hour plus days. Two days ago I had my second bird strike in one week. This time I saw the poor thing, but didn't have time to avoid the little guy. It smacked the canopy right under my feet (we have a window down there) and I saw it pretty much disentigrate before it passed underneath the helicopter. Again, I feel pretty bad, because I certainly didn't get into this job just to kill birds...and it doesn't really happen that often...or so I'm told.
Anyway, today we got word that we have a potential hurricane bearing down on us. Not particularly good news...we probably won't be flying much in the next week or so, unless some dumbass decides to take his sailboat out in this mess....but it does mean that the surf will be up in west Florida/Alabama...hey, always find the best in any situation is my motto..."work hard/play hard" is my other motto...Rock on!