ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Did she take your advice? Our crew motto stems from the tradition that Navy Patrol plane crews use to go to places where they received MAXIMUM per diem and were FORCED to do things like stay in hotels. Obviously Navy squadrons who go to ships , don't get much per diem. As a result , other type Navy squadrons would refer to P-3's as "Cadillac duty". It became a regular punch-line. When my crew did an exercise at the "Top-gun " school at Mirramar in the late 80's , we were feeling intimidated by all these hotshots in their F-14's , F-18's and F-5's , and we had our slow moving propellor driven sky-pig. The patrol plane commander broke the feeling by saying , "They may have TOP-GUN , but we've got PER DIEM CHECK , and you don't get good Per diem on the boat". We all felt better after that and adopted the motto.
Not completely. She was doing bankruptsies when the laws changed and that threw her practice into a tailspin for a while. The new bankruptsy law passed two years ago is one of the worst pieces of legistlation congress has ever passed. It contradicted itself right and left and in at least one place lawyers would need to violate their own code of ethics to be compliant with the law. After two years of being in court, the worst written bits have either been thrown out or modified to make sense, so she's getting back into it.
What she's concentrating on now is going after creditors who are violating the law. It happens a lot after a bankruptsy, but also happens at other times. The law is very specific about the behavior of collection agencies and how certain debts are supposed to be worded when completed in a credit report. Few lawyers are doing it and the problems are chronic. When she gets spun up doing that, she might start carping a few dimes. We're hoping 2008 will be a better year financially than the last few years have been.
When I worked across the street from Boeing Field, I used to see the Navy P-3s doing touches and goes. I'd see them several times a month. Boeing Field is one of the few civilian airports in the country that is large enough to operate just about any aircraft, but doesn't have scheduled passenger service. That makes it a good place to fly into for training and the military uses it for that purpose.
The military planes were more interesting than the sea of Boeing jets coming and going from flight test. About the only thing interesting about them is seeing some airline liveries that you wouldn't see anywhere else in the US.
Bill
