Put mustard on it.

I dream about flying all the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure I have a night time job as a pilot flying mu2's in dream land. always the same airport, same FBO. Sometimes I actually get airborne, other times I just watch the plane starting up. Also, I wander around an endless amount of hangars.

Anyway, last night must have been a hard night at the dream office, because I woke up with a funny saying in my head.

"Put mustard on it"

ha.

You see, that was something we used to say all the time at work. When you were arriving to destination and got a particularly crappy atis. (you know the kinds, the 25G40kts 1/4SM VV100 RSC 0.4 or something like that) you'd look at the pilot flying and say..."better put mustard on that one".

I heard it for the first time from my captain. And I, like all other captains passed it along. I hope it's still there, but for some reason I'm sure it's not, and that sort of makes me sad. Because the phrase put mustard on it was said, and heard, many, many times on dark and stormy nights in the cockpit of a MU2.

Still miss my old job. Funny. You'd think I'd be over it, but it was honestly the greatest job ever. For me anyway. On the most amazing airplane. One that for some reason I can still repeat the checklists from start up to cruise from memory...how's that for not letting go?

Battery key switch - on
Voltage- check
battery isolation - check
inverter - main/standby
fuel transfer - off
power levers - set
condition levers - taxi
environmental controls - off
warning lights - check
rotating beacon - on
SRL's - on
start select - right hand ground
battery select - parallel
EGT - below 200C
CRS - run
generators - off
prop - clear, flat, plugs removed
feather valve, NTS, engine start.
10% fuel flow......light off.

and honestly, for some sick reason I can continue...lol