Road Cycling

Rain… Rain and no storms… Problems with aircraft meaning that my work was important again. Also because I was recording the data I am able to tell managers where planes and helos were at any time – which is important since Air Services Australia and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority have been involved with some comments one of our pilots made when he suddenly was in cloud, not being in an instrument rated helo. I never thought I would need my work to prove what our aircraft were doing for these organisations.

This morning I was asked if I would be interested in working on a world track and field championship in Edmonton, Canada some time early next year. Would I ever… Get someone to pay for my overseas holidays… I had a quick think of where I would extend that holiday…

The rain today was bad enough for our motorcycle people to be constantly cleaning their lens’… This must have been a pain for them. Of the three cycles, I am sure that they only used one of them for a few seconds during the whole race.

Thanks to the scanner I was listening into NBC which had their own motorcycle and helo, but no where near the number of assets that we had… Very insightful.

I may be able to get some more work in this area. There is a Marathon in Chicargo in 4 weeks and they may need people to take stuff back to the USA as well as work the event. There are a few others too… The Goodwill Games in Australia next year… And some others…

We have started packing some stuff up already, since there is little time after the games to pull everything out. I suspect that I will have a car full of extension cords, power supplies and the like given to me following the games.

At the international broadcast center I picked up a cool book… A lonely planet guide for Sydney. UPS is giving them away to Journalists, which I think means me 🙂