We are starting to see more routes out of Chicago flying, two new airports for myself in my list, FSD (Sioux Falls) and CMI (Champaign). I love stopping in at new destinations as it brings new challenges that we can learn and work from. I flew the ORD-FSD route, roughly an hour airtime. It is one of our higher elevation airports we visit, sitting roughly 1,400’. There are only a few airports in our network that are over 1,000’ elevation. Overall, this month turned out to be great with block versus credit hours, a nice change of pace to the usual 80+ hours block I was aiming for per month.
Unfortunately, due to Hurricane Helene, I was unable to get to my Asheville turn on September 29th, as much of the area is suffering from the catastrophic weather. They had been canceling flights from previous days and I was monitoring the departure/arrival flights. It seems that operations resumed the following day.
One month closer to upgrade, I’ll leave everyone in suspense…
Totals: 47.3 hours block time, 93 hours credited time, 19 days off (counts DIS)
1 - OFF
2 - OFF
3 - OFF
4 - OFF
5 - OFF
6 - MDT-PHL-RIC-PHL-GSO
7 - GSO-PHL-MDT
8 - MDT-PHL-CAE-CLT-HSV
9 - HSV-ORD-FSD-ORD-MDT
10 - OFF
11 - OFF
12 - OFF
13 - DIS
14 - DIS
15 - DIS
16 - DIS
17 - OFF
18 - OFF
19 - MDT-PHL-ORF-PHL-SBY
20 - SBY-CLT(DH/)MDT * DIS
21 - DIS
22 - DIS
23 - MDT-ORD-DSM-ORD-MDT
24 - OFF
25 - OFF
26 - OFF
27 - MDT-ORD-CMI-ORD-RIC
28 - RIC-PHL-ILM
29 - ILM-PHL(DUTY)PHL-SBY
30 - SBY(DH/)PHL-MHT-PHL-MDT
New Destinations: FSD, CMI
DH/* - Deadhead
DIS - Displaced