Dynamic in nature

A lot of people dont realize just how much crap changes in aviation.

Not just rules and regs, or weather, but the whole burrito. One minute your holding a carne asada, next minute it's chicken, mojado style. Give it five more minutes and it might even turn into a taco. Or a churro, wich would be pretty awesome, cause churro's are the shit.

Today was a good example. I lfet Chinle last night for ABQ. After hitting up Frontier (seriously, that place is awesome), we returned to Chinle only to find the fog had rolled in, so to Blanding we went. So I got the spend the night at home, my crew in a hotel. Overnights happen, and you can't be shocked or pissy when they do, no matter what was waiting on you at home.

This afternoon we got the airport (the "o-port" as K calls it) at 1500. At 1515 we were alerted to a pending flight to RQE, but 5 minutes later we were told that flight was cancelled and they wewre grounding the patient to Chinle. 1530: another aircraft with a maintenance issue came in. 1600: we were told to swap aircraft so the pilot that just came in could return to ALS with a good plane. 1620: a call came in for a flight to RQE, then to PHX. 1630: we were told to swap planes again, back to the ship we were originally in. 1645: the pending flight was cancelled due to weather and there was talk about switching aircraft once again (both pilots and my med crew were glaring at the people doing the talking at this point).

At 1700 we left to go to the police station so one of my medics could get some fingerprint cards. I didn't ask why, he didn't tell. 1730: we were told we had a pending flight to FMN, to pick up a patient out of Shiprock, and take them to PHX. 1740: it's now FMN to TUS. 1800: we launch for Farmington.

There's a good chance that we may get weathered out of Chinle again, and I don't have a lot of time to screw around; I started at 1500 today, and that only gives me till 0500 to do whatever they want me to do.

We'll see what happens I suppose.

(p.s. - for the uninitiated, those three letter abbreviations are ICAO airport codes (I just omitted the "K" as is standard practice in domestic operations), and if you want to look them up, I suggest this site.)