So, you're an aviator and you're sittin' around the ops. room tryin' to read some article in USA Today and decide if it's written by an actual journalist or just by someone who was recently fired from the Springer show's writing staff, and suddenly you realize that Don Johnson's only charted song from the 80's "Heart Ache" keeps running through your brain and you can't stop it... does that mean that death is stalking you?
From my years of aviation experience, I'd say... probably not. You see, when things are frustrating, weird, crummy or all of the above, you're the most likely to be on the right path in aviation. It is only when you think you've got it made, or you've hit the jackpot that you are really about to be cast into the pit of aviation excrement.
As I recall, the day I got hired at my first regional airline, which happened to be the second highest paying regional in the nation, I really thought I had it made. Sure, they were making us pay for training, but it was in the middle of the hiring slump of the early 1990s and everyone was being forced into PFT to get any job anyhow- so why not be happy at recouping my investment a bit faster at a higher pay-rate? You bet I was a happy camper. Three months later, however, when I was furloughed with severance pay and stuck with a five figure debt, I felt a bit different.
Of course I should have known better- when I was a CFI I'd always wait for my students doing dual cross-country flights to get about 5 miles from our home airport and then ask them how they thought the flight had gone. They'd smile and say "Terrific" and I'd pull the engine on them. The lesson being to never let down your guard, because that is the moment when the big hand of aviation is going reach out and give you a karmic wedgie that you'll remember.
Thus the lesson is, that when you are sitting around ops. and you are pondering the fact that you decided not to send in that matchbook cover application to the Southern Georgia School of Truck Drivin' and instead ended up at your current aviation company that sucks so bad- you're probably safe to go flying. On the other hand, if you've just gotten engaged to a super-model and you have a winning lottery ticket in your pocket plus your current company actually DID take delivery on those new aircraft that they promised would be "coming soon" while ground is being broken for a new terminal... instead of flying, you may as well just go out and crawl into a big black ziplock bag and wait for the end to come- that way there will be less of you spread around for the NTSB to pick up.
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This blog is by Wes Oleszewski, cartoonist and author who draws world's only aviation and aero-space editorial cartoon strip, Klyde Morris. In the aviation industry, anybody who is anybody has read Klyde Morris. Thus if you are in this industry and you have never read Klyde Morris, you are a nobody- and you must quickly visit klydemorris.com so that you may finally become a somebody.
Wes has been drawing Klyde Morris since 1978 stopping only to take part in a career as an professional pilot. After 3 different airlines and one corporate operation, he can now state flatly that he has had the privilege of working for 4 of the worst air carriers in the nation. Thus, he went back to cartooning.
Wes has been drawing Klyde Morris since 1978 stopping only to take part in a career as an professional pilot. After 3 different airlines and one corporate operation, he can now state flatly that he has had the privilege of working for 4 of the worst air carriers in the nation. Thus, he went back to cartooning.
He's also the author of more than two dozen books.
Aviation subjects, spaceflight subjects... it's all good!
Sometimes... okay... most of the time, Wes has more to say than can be said in a cartoon and so we have this blog.
Sometimes... okay... most of the time, Wes has more to say than can be said in a cartoon and so we have this blog.
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1) COPYRIGHT All drawn images found on this web site that have been animated by Wes Oleszewski, or composite images created by that same author as well as text composed by that same author are protected by copyright Wes Oleszewski. No portion of any material presented on this web site may be reproduced for any form of publication without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder. Material that is equipped with a “print” function installed by the management of the web site is expressly intended for the reader’s private viewing only, and this “print” function does not imply or express any release of that printed material from the before stated copyright. Modification of any of the material protected by the above stated copyright is considered a violation of that copyright. The use of any of the material contained within this web site on any other web site or network of computers, other than those specifically contracted by the copyright holder, Wes Oleszewski, is prohibited.
2) SITE MANAGEMENT This web site is a production under the management of Klyde Morris Inc.
3) LINKED SITES Links to other web sites are presented for the convenience of our readers and neither Wes Oleszewski, nor Klyde Morris Inc. are responsible for the content on those sites.
4) CONTENT All content presented upon this web site is presented solely in pursuit of humor and the readers of the material are in no way bound to follow any dictates presented. All characters presented are fictional. None of the activities presented here should ever be attempted by actual persons and neither Klyde Morris Inc. nor Wes Oleszewski are in any way responsible for persons being injured or killed as a result of anything presented upon this web site. Both Klyde Morris Inc. and Wes Oleszewski advise that no one who may be influenced in any way should read any of the content of this web site- ever.
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6) GOVERNING LAW This agreements shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland, USA without regard to the place or places of its physical execution and performance. Actions of any sort brought against Wes Oleszewski and or Klyde Morris Inc. based on or resulting from these terms of use shall be brought exclusively before the Federal District Court, Southern Maryland or in a state court located in Anne Arundel County. If any term or provision of these terms of use are, for any reason, held invalid, such invalidity shall not effect any other term in the provisions. These terms of use contain the entire understanding between Wes Oleszewski, Klyde Morris Inc. and the users of this web site.
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