Wow, after reading about all our classmates who are no longer with us I decided I'd better "check-in" and let the survivors know that I'm still alive and kicking.
Although I've attended most of our class reunions I didn't make the big 50 reunion. My mother passed away in Independence in November of 2005, and I guess I just didn't feel like coming back again quite yet.
I retired from a 34-year flying career with United Airlines, and was enjoying the good life in San Francisco when the aviation bug took over again. After having recurring dreams that they had raised the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots, and that I had to go back to the training center for refresher training, it's sort of coming true; I'm going to be flying part-time for an air charter company, training their newer captains on the newly-certified Eclipse 500 business jet (the main competition for the new Cessna Mustang jet being manufactured in Independence).
The irony of the whole scenario is that Eclipse contracted with United to do all their flight training--so I found myself back at the United Pilot Training Center in Denver last week matching wits with a flight simulator again (one of the very same simulators in which I had trained in my first life). Yes, my recurring nightmare was coming true! Even the training center cafeteria food was the same as I had remembered it. Maybe I shouldn't have given the place the old high-sign when I walked out the door "for the last time" eight years ago.
After an 8-year marriage to a United flight attendant (decades ago) I thought I had escaped the rigors of fatherhood, but a couple years ago I took on the shared responsibility of raising a 5-year-old (now age 7). This is why I insisted on instructing/flying only part-time; besides, I plan to try retiring again after little Mark is in college.
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