Just yesterday I received a layout for some aerial target locations for a low (1300' agl) altitude flight. I figured we would get them done by probably Friday afternoon and hope the elements didn't degrade the target integrity too bad by the time they made the flight.
I get a call today at noon (the crew was three counties away in the other direction) from the pilot verifying the targets are in. Had to tell him 'nope'. He was wanting to fly the route tomorrow morning around 9 AM on his way north to a job in Kansas. Sheeesh, people and their schedules...
I talked him into hitting Kansas first and catching a tailwind back this way for the OK job. His best guess was he would be over the route around 12:30 to 1 PM. Soooo I've got 'til noon tomorrow to get up there and set a mess of targets.
I hate hurrying.
Your emergency isn't my emergency without a lot of dollars in my hand.
Holy Cow, post: 393095, member: 50 wrote: Your emergency isn't my emergency without a lot of dollars in my hand.
These folk$ are worth it...I don't hurry for free.
btw - please take note of the time stamp of this post....hell, the dogs aren't even up yet...
An advantage of this, is you can use paper plates. And, I say double them. Fast, cheap.
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Was going to sleep in a little this morning because nobody had requested anything for early. Heard the phone ding with a text message this morning at 5:30. One of the foremen on a job an hour away, said he forgot to call yesterday and tell me they were going to set 2 settlement platforms this morning that I would have to shoot in. So got there by 7:30 and did that. Took care of some pavement layout at another site on the way back, drove past another job on the way to the office. Got there about 1:30. While filling up with gas the paving foreman called and asked if I had laid out the pavement on a diversion on the job I'd just driven by. No, nobody said they were ready. They had some paving to do on a crossover (diverting eastbound I-24 traffic to westbound lanes and moving westbound to a diversion) on that job tonight, and might get around to that diversion also. Ran in the office for a minute and the dirt foreman on that job asked how long it would take to build machine and controller files for 3 other crossovers. When are you building them? TONIGHT. First I'd heard about that schedule. Took a couple hours to do those and told them not to call tomorrow, I'm taking the day off.
They are usually good about keeping me in the loop, but today they were not.
paden cash, post: 393092, member: 20 wrote: I hate hurrying.
paden cash, post: 393105, member: 20 wrote: These folk$ are worth it...I don't hurry for free.
:gammon::manhole:
So, did you "git'er done" without a problem?
Holy Cow, post: 394128, member: 50 wrote: So, did you "git'er done" without a problem?
since you asked...it turned into a mess.
The project was originally on SPC, required by the LIDAR contractor needing the targets. We set the targets and I delivered the cords to the flight contractor. He can't get them to fit.
I realized almost two years ago I had rotated the project to fit a slew of proposed R/W documentation (prepared by yet another outfit) to simplify things. OK. Let's start from scratch and head back out there to "fix" everything. Only to realize two of the high-accuracy geo-referenced control monuments from the City of Oklahoma City have been destroyed since we started the project. Just finished up today with a lot of occupation time and an eight mile network to "check".
I think everybody is finally satisfied. Next onslaught will be the civil firm (from Houston) wondering why all the LIDAR data doesn't fit the R/W documentation and subsequent topo work....If it weren't politically incorrect I'd be temped to use the term "Chinese Fire Drill"...but I shall avoid such references.
Sounds like a "Cluster Foxtrot."
