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Before I packed to come for the testing, I googled for information on blood clots and pilot medicals. My first hit was about an airline pilot who dropped dead at the baggage carousel after his fli

Tomorrow is my last day of leave. Its a travel day, so it doesn't really count, but I do have time in the morning to go hit some golf balls with my dad and have breakfast before heading off to the ai

When FlyGuy was learning how to fly the military way, I eventually came to that part of jet training called formation flying.  Formation flying is when you put two or more jets into the sky

Found this on youtube...

No flying. Just got back from two weeks holiday. So no flying. Actually studying hard for the GFPT exam. Have to learn all my V speeds<

I originally was going to go on a cross country flight on Sunday... but decided against it in favour of some practice instead. I headed out the Claremont training area to practice some forced approac

Sunday's plans for taking the Citabria over to check out a few camping-ready airports didn't quite materialize. The Old Man and I had conflicting schedules, and I had to meet some friends at a local w

I was at a Radio Shack location a few hours ago picking up some electronic goodies for a project I’m working on. While there I became aware of the fact that there was a special promotion on cell

Tomorrow is my last day of leave. Its a travel day, so it doesn't really count, but I do have time in the morning to go hit some golf balls with my dad and have breakfast before heading off to the ai

When I flew on the MU-2 based out of Thunder Bay, I flew with 4 captains.

The main one I was paired with was a workaholic. Again, a good chunk of the captain's compensation was tied to mil

Sorry for the lack of recent posts. In my last one, I mentioned that I missed a couple lessons because I wasn't feeling well. As it turned out, I have had to miss several weeks of training. I have

“Marked as medium-dry but not sweet at all. In fact, it’s sour … but surprisingly drinkable after the first shock. I could imagine enjoying it in sunnier climates mixed with mineral

More and more aircrews (and general travellers, of course) are going to Shanghai as airlines access the n

Here's an interesting article written by Jay Boehmer (and heavily edited down by us) on Bu

When I flew on the MU-2 based out of Thunder Bay, I flew with 4 captains.

The main one I was paired with was a workaholic. Again, a good chunk of the captain's compensation was tied to mil

Sorry for the lack of recent posts. In my last one, I mentioned that I missed a couple lessons because I wasn't feeling well. As it turned out, I have had to miss several weeks of training. I have

The first part of this post is about our trip to see Roger Waters in LA. For the aviation portion of the post, scroll down.

Roger Waters
Well, we did the 30 hour turnaround to LA to se