The Colorado Adventure

Joel says that he can never go back to the $500,000 flight sim. He must have the 28 million dollar flight sim. His CAP unit went to the United airlines pilot training facility and got to use the jet flight simulator. His trinket of the evening was the pass they made you get. It’s a plastic visitor pass with his pic and name, the date and the words ‘must be escorted’. He said that the plane was very realistic and once you got inside you’d swear you were in a real cockpit. They got to switch off being the computer guy, the pilot and co-pilot. He made his landing straight on the runway. He said the grass and runway looked very real on the screen. When you were in flight the computer person could change the weather on you. So, one minute they were flying in sunny skies and then it was raining. It usually costs $5,000 an hour to use that thing (gotta get that 28 mil back somehow) but I’m sure CAP didn’t pay that much. Now Joel is spoiled and the Microsoft simulator we’re buying is going to seem like a baby toy………..

In other news since we’re members of the Wings over the Rockies museum now we‘re getting member e-mails. Yesterday we got one about a volunteer work day next week. Let me see: you feed us pizza and coke, you let us play with fire hoses and we get to mop down the B1-A and other planes…………YES, we’ll do it! They’re getting ready for a 4th of July weekend bash, so we’ll be helping clean out and off the planes in the museum and listening to a Lt.Col. lecture about being with the B1 program and introducing the plane. Cool, cool, cool. Also when I sent out our Tea Tuesday letters the mail guy asked what was in the envelope. Tea bags, I said. Oh, that can’t go regular mail, it’ll have to go first class. I didn’t have a problem before with tea bags going though the mail, maybe it was just him. So, if you get a letter from us this week, it will be 1st class, but don’t expect that every time!