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Well, more like I rode to O'hare on Monday, but I got to ride right seat on a charter flight with my flight instructor as he flew the CEO of a local corporation down for a meeting. We flew a Cessna 310, so we were able to keep up with the big guys if we pushed it. I got to get a small taste of what charter flying is like, namely getting up at 5:00 am, wearing my fancy clothes to go flying, and making sure we had coffee and muffins for the passenger.

We started off by preflighting and pulling the airplane out of the hangar around 6:00 am, and after checking everything out and getting ready to go, we went into the FBO building to wait for the passenger to arrive. She was a little late, so we ended up waiting about an hour, but it sure wasn't the last wait we had of the day. While we were waiting, the airport owner showed up with fresh baked chocolate chip cookies for breakfast, so it wasn't a bad wait at all.

Wow !

[quote]Wow !

That sounds like a lot of fun.  I've managed to con my way into the right seat of the Navajo charter we have here a couple of times.  Never realized how boring the life of a charter pilot can be.  

My favorite experience with heavies was working on my instrument rating at a Class D airport.  We were practicing an ILS and just passed the outer marker when the controller asked us for maximum forward speed because of an MD-80 a few miles behind us.  After realizing our 172 was at maximum forward speed ( ) we gladly offered to get out of the way.

My one and only trip into O'Hare was in the jump-seat of a NWA DC10, out of Seattle.