The Joys of it all!

So they say mondays are not a good way to spend 1/7th of your life. Having said that id also like to point out one of the occupational hazards of a commercial line pilot - NO FIXED OFF DAYS! We are forced to count days of the week as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and it sucks! There is no weekend or a monday or a sunday! Weirdly enough i am quite enjoying this and my seniors say give it four months and you'll take your words back!

So its been almost close to a month now that i have finally completed with my training as a co-pilot with Spicejet and i have definitely come a long way from where all of this had started. The job profile basically they say is somewhat like a chauffeur. And i agree it has its similarities. We dress ourselves in a clean uniform, we take people from point A to point B, we are often the ones to be blamed if there is a the slightest of discomfort during the whole journey. Well being a chauffeur of US$80 Million airplane surely has a nice ring to it! It might have not been my childhood dream to fly like a lot of people i know but well all i know is that i am enjoying every bit of it.

Another flaw of this profession is and always will be the weird work timings. But after a month of flying and logging about close to 90 hours or so i have realized that we are blessed with the most spectacular views! Getting up at 3:30 am to find yourself flying an early morning flight has somehow been all worth it! Having the view of a rising sun at 37,000 ft above the earths surface has been one of the most brilliant sights iv ever seen! The whole 2-3 minutes when the sun rises from a level below the aircrafts nose and then gradually filling up the sky with colours which one will only find in Gods own colour pallete. Sunsets are no different... to have a view of half world sleeping tight and the rest enjoying day is completely worth it!


I have lost track of time over the past few months and have loads of emotions and thoughts to convey. I hope to get myself sorted soon cause its sorta getting confusing.. its sorta getting dark.....