I am starting to write a book, I wanted to know what you think of it so far.


“United 923 cleared to Washington Dulles International as filed, fly runway heading, climb and maintain flight level 175. Departure frequency is 119.265 squawk 0309. Over.”
Brian Griggs, the captain of United flight 923, responded to the Air Traffic Control clearance as he eased the throttles of his Boeing 737 up to a 90% open position. As the airplane began to roll, he lowered the flaps on the wing 5 degrees, and waited until his copilot called out “V1... V2...” when his copilot called out “VR...” he would rotate the nose of the airplane up 10 degrees and quickly become airborne.
As the airplane leveled out at 30,000 feet, after step climbing up 12,500 feet, Griggs took off his headset and turned to his copilot.
“You've got the plane, bucko” he told his copilot. The copilot nodded.
Since this flight would take 3 hours, Griggs decided to go back into the cabin to see what he could scrounge from the food trolleys. He quickly decided there was nothing there worth having and thus headed back to the cockpit.
“You want to go back to see if there's anything appetizing on the menu? I think it's all a load of crap.”
“There's never anything good on the menu, especially on these small plane, long distance flights,” the copilot commented, “The airline spends about a buck fifty per meal per flight on these types of flights.”
“Too right,” Griggs said.