Hello everyone.
Just a quick note to say there won't be many posts from me this week. I am in San Francisco at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Day one was exhausting mostly due to the extra day of travel required. I had gotten on a plane Sunday afternoon with the intention of actually making it to San Fran the day before the meeting started but an electrical generator in our aircraft had another idea and we wound up in Los Vegas. I had never been to Los Vegas before and had long had a plan on how I was going to do my first trip there (let's just say it would involve driving for a long dark period of questionable consciousness to arrive at 2 AM) But the way I did it was almost as interesting. The emergency landing was somewhat interesting in that all of the instrumentation for the left side of the aircraft was inoperable so the flight attendant had to do visual checks on flap positions for landing. The escort of about 20 or so pieces of fire equipment with lights flashing and driving at about 70 or 80 or whatever it took to try to keep up with a landing airliner made me feel quite welcome when we landed. But, sadly, we did not get to use the exit slides. As my extensive history of emergency landings goes (2 in 25 years), this one was what I’d call a routine emergence. Nothing like diving from 35,000 feet to 10,000 feet when all instrumentation goes out to land at midnight at a small regional airport in Iowa not meant to take large aircraft. There is nothing quite like seeing a scared as shit flight attendant tell you that everything is OK as they run up and down the aisle and you watch the pilots kicking the instrumentation board. Nope, this was a routine emergency landing.
Stay tuned to find out about Ken’s adventures in Los Vegas. Watch when Ken encounters an “old casino”. Watch Ken get ill while riding a “virtual” rollercoaster. Be there when Ken is “entertained” by pirates. Laugh when Ken is awestruck by a water feature.
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