BACK WHEN I was flying the Boeing 747-400, people used to tell me that I looked 10 years younger than I was. After a stretch on that airplane, and it didn't take long, people stopped making that observation. In fact, they don't say anything anymore. I fear that's because they think I look 10 years older. By the time this article will be published, I will have been an Airbus domestic narrow-body Captain for a little over a year. Things did not start out well. I worked a lot harder than I ever expected, simply to check out on an airplane on which I already had seven or eight thousand hours.
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