After a good long run of 8 years together and a great many interesting adventures and challenges, etc my baby is being sent off to pasture.
They are decommissioning my aeroplane. It feels like my arm is being amputated. This is going to bother me for a while. I loved her and was spoiled that I unlike all the other pilots in my co got to fly the same airplane each and evry night. We bonded.
This blows. I thought they were just bluffin. They had said that it was going to be taken off line but I figured it would take forever like so many other things