It was a treat this morning when the phone rang and it was my flying buddy and good friend of more than four decades on the line. I think of him often as he has “been there” as an actively-engaged buddy and great friend all of these years.
Meeting on March 26, 1979, I was a young pilot just 24 years old. It was the first day of New Hire Pilot Training at the Western Airlines Training Center in Los Angeles.