Flying with cargo

9/18/2008

Today I flew with my friend Paul, who hauls cargo. We flew out of KPSN and he even let me fly some. We left late at night, no one else was around, it was odd to leave the airport with no one to wave goodbye to me. We left about 7:00pm. We flew into Tyler Pounds Field (KTYR) and picked up more cargo, then we flew into DFW. Paul let me fly some while he tried to fix some navigational problems the airplane was having. It was fun to fly, but I wasn't nervous because I knew if I couldn't handle it paul was there and he would take the controls back. WOW! What an airport DFW is. There were a lot of REALLY BIG airplanes, and lots of runways and taxiways. A little bear could really get lost there. After following all of our directions and taxiing, we finally got the cargo dropped off and the airplane shut down. We called it a night and went to bed.

The next morning we got up bright and early and reversed our route. We started out in DFW, then we went to Tyler again and dropped off some cargo, then we went to Palestine and dropped off their cargo. It was a nice flight, and I was glad to be home. Good to see familiar faces.

If you ever think airports don't have any significance to the community, you have to ask yourself "Do I appreciate my overnight packages?" I didn't realize that people flew odd hours to get those packages to me. What an interesting experience.