Turned down a flight tonight. Ceilings were legal on paper and not…

Hank Delacroix · Pilot at Bayou Air Medical · Baton Rouge, LA

Turned down a flight tonight. Ceilings were legal on paper and not legal in my stomach. Ground crew drove her instead and she is fine. Hardest part of this job is you never find out if you were right. You only find out if you were wrong.

3 comments

Grace Hollis

You do not owe anybody the counterfactual. You owe them a decision you can defend at 3am and you made one.

Sofia Marchetti

Every bush pilot up here runs the same sentence in their head. Different airframe, same math.

Hank Delacroix

Thats the part they leave out of the recruiting video. Anyway. Coffee.