...so I'm slightly drunk, and think it's a good idea to hop into the Astar we just added to the fleet (this is a dream, after all). Never flown one, but I know how to read a checklist and start a turbine, so away I go. When the engine lights off, the TOT (being shown on a gauge roughly the size and style of the depth gauge in a WWII sub) rises so fast I can only watch it fly into the red then back out.
Now I'm sitting in a running helicopter trying to decide what I should do. I really want to fly it, I know I'm in trouble because there's no way I can NOT report the overtemp but I also know that when I do it's probably the end of my professional career.
Then I woke up.
