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I also update my online profile with Air Canada. It's almost as complex a process as applying for EI, but the motivation is greater. I go to their website career section and enter my username and pas

My official submission for publication at Aviation.ca: Wings & Wheels Niagara A Huge Success Despite somewhat uncooperative weather, the performers and over 10,000 guests that attended th

The recent accident involving a Comair regional jet emphasizes the importance of situational awareness - knowing where you are and the implications to your phase of flight. Situational awaren

Riding the ILS on a pretty wet day.

Riding the ILS on a pretty wet day.

Saturday morning dawned rather moist in Northeast Ohio. Visibilities at ground level were awful, but the ceilings were reported around 8000.

Hey, sounds like a perfect day to go fly for so

Saturday morning dawned rather moist in Northeast Ohio. Visibilities at ground level were awful, but the ceilings were reported around 8000.

Hey, sounds like a perfect day to go fly for so

Saturday morning dawned rather moist in Northeast Ohio. Visibilities at ground level were awful, but the ceilings were reported around 8000.

Hey, sounds like a perfect day to go fly for so

Saturday morning dawned rather moist in Northeast Ohio. Visibilities at ground level were awful, but the ceilings were reported around 8000.

Hey, sounds like a perfect day to go fly for so

It had been about 3 or 4 months since the last time I had been into Patuanak's short gravel strip. Now on short final, with the threshold of RWY14 coming at us at 110mph, my mind is racing with possib

I can get on at the skool as an instructor, but they want me to work the desk from noon-9pm every Saturday. That is obviously not feasible, since it's a huge chunk of really inconvenient time, not to

Haven't been much of a shutter bug l

I got to the airport yesterday and was told that the simulator was busted. No worries, we just hopped into a plane. Did a short field with obstacle take off and almost just as soon my FI told me to p

Saturday morning dawned rather moist in Northeast Ohio. Visibilities at ground level were awful, but the ceilings were reported around 8000.

Hey, sounds like a perfect day to go fly for so

Saturday morning dawned rather moist in Northeast Ohio. Visibilities at ground level were awful, but the ceilings were reported around 8000.

Hey, sounds like a perfect day to go fly for so

T-minus 14 days: I am going to be very busy over the next couple months, but I'll attempt to post when I can. For thos

Sam recently inquired about one's favorite haunts for the $100 hamburger. Here's a few on this side of the country:

Flying Turtle at MFD. Typical ai

Sam recently inquired about one's favorite haunts for the $100 hamburger. Here's a few on this side of the country:

Flying Turtle at MFD. Typical ai

Sam recently inquired about one's favorite haunts for the $100 hamburger. Here's a few on this side of the country:

Flying Turtle at MFD. Typical ai

Sam recently inquired about one's favorite haunts for the $100 hamburger. Here's a few on this side of the country:

Flying Turtle at MFD. Typical ai

Yesterday I mentioned that I am involved in professional aviation. Half a year ago I started my job as a young air traffic controller on a remote airport located near latitude 70 degrees north. So her

It had been about 3 or 4 months since the last time I had been into Patuanak's short gravel strip. Now on short final, with the threshold of RWY14 coming at us at 110mph, my mind is racing with possib

Ok, so this posting is a little old... Sue me! Over the Memorial Day weekend, N334CD was not being rented so I figured that I would take my son Bo

With an acknowledged weakness for books, particularly books related to flying and especially ones with great photography, it wasn’t a struggle deciding to purchase Jim Wark’s ‘Americ

Sam recently inquired about one's favorite haunts for the $100 hamburger. Here's a few on this side of the country:

Flying Turtle at MFD. Typical ai

Sam got me thinking about good places for a pilot to grab a bite around Southern California. I was going to add a comment to

It was the mid- 1970's. I was working at my first commercial flying job.
I was instructing in a Hiller UH-12C and Bell 47G2.
The company also owned two Bell JetRangers in which I did Part 91

It seems that more and more these days I'm approached by friends, some of whom might have previously been reluctant to fly in a small plane, who want to go up in the air. I usually take them to Friday

From today's AvWeb:

Geoff Peck, whose software creation evolved into one of the most popular flight planning services on the Internet, died earlier this month when the Piper Arrow he was