Aircraft pilot

Whatever, right? Versus today.

Pilot-wise.

Who do you think is better? As a true pilot? Because you know planes don't fly themselves.

Yeah, I know.

I am flying the friendly skies today with Pilot next to me.

What is that like? What is that like? Welcome to Unscripted Turbulence.

My friends, I am now on an airplane coming back from vacation.

That's right.

I am still not here in New York City where I record my podcasts.

I am flying the friendly skies today with Pilot next to me.

What is that like? What is that like? Now, first, I'll start with Pilot does not like to fly as a passenger on his own airline.

Nope.

Like, just nothing, nothing survived, no career opportunities survived for very long.

And so that path set me ... onto kind of a ladder climb up, up the regional ranks.

Um, and then by the time I was ready to really start applying to, like, a Delta or United or American or s- Southwest or something like that, I mean, you know, now we're looking at, like, it's 2004, [laughs] which not, you know, the 9/11 effect was still going strong.

In fact, there was still, uh, you know, tens of thousands of pilots on the street from the majors taking the mid-grade jobs.

So there, I mean, I interviewed at, at, uh, AirTran in that time.

And this was, like, maybe a week before I made the decision.

I was there with my kids.

We were walking around, and, you know, I'm a, uh, you know, I, I, I, I'm sappy with the nostalgia and, like, being in there in the Air and Space Museum, you know, you feel pride 'cause you're a part of, like, that community, and at the same time, you know, you're in awe.

Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur at altitudes of 50 to 90 kilometers above the surface.

They were first photographed in 1989 by scientists at the University of Minnesota who were testing a low-light video camera and happen to capture the phenomenon above a distant storm they are called sprites because they appear and disappear so quickly typically lasting only a few milliseconds that they seem ghostly or fairy-like sprites are usually red or reddish-orange in colour and can extend vertically for fifty kilometres or more making them among the largest electrical events on the entire planet despite their enormous size they are extremely faint and can only be seen from great distances at night which is why they went undetected for so long Pilots had reported seeing faint flashes above thunderstorms for decades before sprites were scientifically confirmed, but their reports were often dismissed as optical illusions or misidentifications.

Blue jets are another type of upper atmospheric discharge, appearing as narrow cones of blue light that shoot upward from the tops of thunderstorm clouds at speeds of about 100 km per second.

They typically extend to altitudes of about 40 to 50 kilometres, which is lower than sprites but still far above the cloud tops.

There were no errors and two men were left out.

And the score at the end of four innings, the Pilots won the New York Mets one.

Now here to bring you up to date on the scores around in baseball, here is Bob Murphy.

Hokie are off this afternoon at Wrigley Field on a three-hitter by Cal McClish and winning his eighth game.

No.

All right, number two from Supercaster Ninja Pilot, Mike Tango Hotel, "Hi, RH.

I continue to enjoy the show." Not H-H, just RH.

No, for me.

that's the first hit of the game coming off the bat of Andre Rodgers with one man out here in the bottom of the second.

The Pilots have run it at first and second with one man out and Valeroni's coming up.

Valeroni is hitting .232 with four homers and 13 runs batted in.

As we promised, we'll try to keep you posted on the progress of the American astronauts, White and McDivitt, throughout the course of this ballgame.

The side's out in order.

No runs, no hits, no errors, not left.

The score at the end of five is the Mets' eight and the Pilots' nothing.

Well, Roy McMillan's had a couple of face-hits in this game.