Venting....3....2....1....

I've been out of the navy going on 24 years and thought I was immune to anything the navy could do. I was wrong.

Here in San Diego there are a number of navy bases and one of them is North Island. North Island is where the carriers are berthed and it also has an airfield. The airfield host not only naval aviation but also a small flying club of general aviation planes. Yours truly happens to have a Cessna 172 on leaseback to the club in the vain hope of making money (another story in itself - how do you make a million in aviation? start with two million).

This afternoon I get a call: "The club has been shut down by the CO (Commanding Officer of the base) and you need to get your plane out of here by this evening or else it will be stuck here for some time. Oh and the insurance on it will end at midnight tonight". Great. I have no way to get on base, and even if I did, I'm behind on my FAA requirements to legally fly the plane out of North Island. Fortunately the remaining members of the club management found someone to fly the plane out of North Island to the airport I work at. Unfortunately this happened too late today so we are planning on doing this tomorrow. Now I just have to arrange insurance tomorrow morning, have evidence of said insurance faxed to me, and then fax this evidence to North Island which North Island needs prior to allowing the pilot to fly out. No problem at all with that.

Thankyou navy, maybe I'll complain to someone in congress and torpedo someone else's career.