As with any job, you get frustrated and forget why you do it. But then something happens to remind you how neat it can be. I had that happen yesterday. While minding my own business getting work done at my desk, my boss called and asked if I didn't mind an interruption to go fly the shuttle. Um, gee let me think. I can sit here and continue trying to follow an incomprehensible requirements trace or I can fly the shuttle, tough one. Of course my answer was you bet I want to be interrupted.
So we headed over to the fixed base sim. Apparently, our group had a few people from out of town getting a tour and Howard was taking me along. But I got to sit down and fly 3 landings. Did fine on two of the three, but I blew a tire on one of them so that would have been a bad 'oops' in the real world. The other folks were crashing in far more spectacular ways as none were pilots and didn't have the advantage I had. Then I just headed back to the office for a staff meeting.
I'll take 30 min interruptions like that any day.
12 years ago
4 comments:
That's awesome! I hear the shuttle lands like a flying brick.
I wanna fly the shuttle!! :)
Actually, it lands like an airplane. It just falls like a flying brick! ;)
Good job! I totally crashed when I tried it :) It was embarrassing because I was the only one who had actually flown a plane before (the others landed it, or at least made much better attempts than me!)
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