I haven’t posted anything since September. Excuses aside, I’ve been real busy first with working the AOPA Summit in Hartford, and then catching up with being out of the office for a week. In case you didn’t know, Judy and I donated our simulator to the AOPA Learning Center for the show and in return became supporting sponsors of the convention.
The Redbird folks arrived at our building at 7am on the Monday the 19th, prior to the show. Josh and Chris disassembled the FMX and loaded it into a truck that Chris had driven from Austin Texas. I showed up at the convention site on Wednesday afternoon with our signage and promotional literature.
Working the AOPA show was an exciting experience. We flew our Simulator roughly 25 hours (Hobbs time) over the three day event. To maximize the throughput we only let people fly the box for six minutes which equated to 80 flights a day or 240 people that we exposed to Aviation, Simulation and the Redbird FMX.
Ben helped me with the workload on Thursday and I traded off the flight instruction part with my Redbird associate an hour on and an hour off on both Friday and Saturday. Judy was kind enough to take a vacation day from her day gig Friday and worked the booth on Saturday as well.
We left the convention center at 6pm on Saturday and had dinner at the restaurant at the Marriott, went to bed to wake at six and drive to Danbury heading to the office. The Redbird team arrived at 10am and worked until well past nine PM putting our machine back together.
I was whipped for the next few days after that finally getting my first day off on the Sunday after the show- 28 days straight without time off. Whew
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