| Arthur Bastian - I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Brigham Young University in 1977.
I went into the United States Air Force as a pilot of the KC-135 Air Refueling Tanker, flying world wide missions with my navigator. Every training mission and every mission over the ocean was done with celestial navigation, as all or a portion of the navigational method.
I left the Air Force in 1989 and flew for Eastern Airlines, as a First Officer. Our primary method of navigation was based on the VORTAC Jet Routes, with an Inertial Navigational System (INS) backup. We were setting the Jet Route Way points in the INS and flying the INS with the autopilot and monitoring the INS with the VORTAC instrument. This prompted me to write a program on a hand-held calculator that converted a radial and Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) distance into a latitude and longitude, to then be able to update the INS, making it more accurate or bringing it back up to FAA limits.
Eastern Airlines went out of business in 1991 and I finally got a job with WordPerfect as a Computer Support Technician. I had been programing, and solving people’s problems for some time, so I liked the WordPerfect Job. It wasn’t flying but I was helping people with their problems. I learned the frustrations, limitations, and problems caused by computerized devices, and the importance of back up systems, and backing up data etc.
In 1994 WordPerfect sold to Corel, and my job became a secretarial job instead of a problem solving job, so I was let go.
Early 1995 I got a job as an electrician’s helper and I have worked my way up to a journeyman electrician. Currently I am a Journeyman Electrician.
My interests are hiking, archery hunting, camping, scouting, astronomy, and map reading.
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