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Saturday was going to be a great day for flying…just not for me. The weather was a perfect 50ish degrees (can’t tell you how happy I am that summer is over) and clear, but when I got to th

I go for a blood test every week, to ensure that the medication is working properly for me and my diet. I must avoid changing the amount of Vitamin K in my diet, because rat poison and vitamin K

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Still more regurgitated blog content.
Southwest Airlines Unveils New Love Field Service

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Still more regurgitated blog content.
Southwest Airlines Unveils New Love Field Service

Dalla

I've run out of money. With two trips to Australia just bought and paid for that's pretty much used all available flying funds in the short term. And just my luck, the weather has started to improv

Since I moved from Ottawa/Macdonald-Cartier International to Ottawa/Rockcliffe at the beginning of this month, I’ve had a chance to take only two flights, but with two drastically-different resu

August 17, 2004

Westerly, RI to Cleveland, OH
451nm

Time to head home. There's a bit of cloud cover in Connecticut, but beyond that it looks like smooth flying all th

*-Disclaimer: I took my camera this time. Guess what. The bloody thing is broken. Until I get a new camera and get back down to Cape May for pictures, this will have to do...

If you haven't gotten your daily dose of Existential Angst, with Airplanes! (tm), Sulako has posted a very c

August 17, 2004

Westerly, RI to Cleveland, OH
451nm

Time to head home. There's a bit of cloud cover in Connecticut, but beyond that it looks like smooth flying all th

August 17, 2004

Westerly, RI to Cleveland, OH
451nm

Time to head home. There's a bit of cloud cover in Connecticut, but beyond that it looks like smooth flying all th

I was skimming throug

I save my vacation time for September and October, so I can enjoy autumn in New England. I'd also planned to go out to Hayden, Idaho to get my seaplane rating with Mike Kincaid at Mountain Lakes Seap

*-Disclaimer: I took my camera this time. Guess what. The bloody thing is broken. Until I get a new camera and get back down to Cape May for pictures, this will have to do...

I get into Portland at 7am today, I'm off until Saturday afternoon, and Dawn is at a math conference in Victoria all week. I'm therefore doing a little traveling via jumpseat on my days off. Can you g

I had to share this hilarious cartoon I found at my flight school. On the subject of instructors Jonathan did his first flight without one today. It’s a huge step in training to do one’s first so

Remember, we just returned from 10 days in what we consider to be one of the most beautiful places on earth: Destin Florida.
The beaches there are literally white as snow. At night, sitting in a

Well, as far as I’m concerned, winter is the worst season ever invented!!! I know, it wasn’t invented by us, but it was invented by a woman! Just kidding ladies, but Mother Nature can de

Well, as usual, I am finishing my week at work, and finally seeing clouds for the first time since Wednesday. I love weeks like this. Of course, the weather is now officially differentiating itself fr

Okay, so I’m a little later than I thought I would be on updating here. Going back to my last week of flying, and talking about Midway, as I said before, the guys and gals in control of the airs

I’ve had it pretty good here in Minnesota, weather-wise, over the past 3 months I’ve been here. Well, this week that all ended. If anybody has seen the weather system over the last week go

Every 6 months as a pilot, you get the pleasure of doing what’s called a checkride. Basically, it checks to make sure you still know what you’re doing and how to fly an airplane. You can d

For those that have posted questions, if you haven’t already noticed, I am answering them in the comments. If there’s too much confusion, let me know, and I will just use posts for them, b

For those of y’all out there that wonder if freight dawgs will go through anything, here is your answer… Before departing Ohio, en route to Minnesota, I was looking at the radar and saw a

So, let me tell you about the storms the other night…this was Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, and the cold front moving across the country was finishing its pass over Minneapolis. Coming o

SO, I’ve been trying to think of something to write about lately, and haven’t come up with anything very good, hence my absence from here. If anybody’s reading, please leave a commen

Well, I am all set up and now have a crashpad in Minneapolis, MN. I will be starting my run  and finally don’t have to remember any more flight numbers, different routes, paperwork, and all the

Just over a week ago, our airport had it's first annual open house type event. I'd been looking forward to it for about a month when a fuel leak seemed like it might keep me from flying kids as part