Helo day

 Wow, look at that pooch! I feel that there is nothing more to say with such a stunning star. Here, we have Tilly rocking her Mutt Muffs, and Doggles and mohawk. I custom altered her headgear to sew them all on to one set of elastic straps and a buckle for easy on and off. Everyone was laughing at how awesome she was and taking pictures. The maintenance mechanic guys came around to touch the celebrity and all the flight crews had their smartphones out. So proud of my little girl.

Tilly with her calm, focused and upbeat demeanor (who would have thought, that crazy monster being the calm, focused one!), was chosen to demonstrate how we might be lifted with our dogs by winch if the helicopter couldn't land. Her and her human volunteer were buckled in and then lifted from the floor and swung into the bird and lowered in proper rescue fashion.  

We had quite the turn out today. Our training was supposed to be out in a field and involve the helicopter running while we practiced getting in and out and was supposed to hover above us, but due to fog we had to change plans to an in-hanger training, out of the rain and wind and fog.

Meanwhile, Tim had a very, very long day at work with a couple hours of overtime spent crawling through horrible attics running wires.