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So you’ve spent the last 15-20 hours in the practice area and the traffic pattern with your instructor. Now it’s time to stretch your legs a little and learn to fly the airplane from one p

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My Dell laptop, which survived my failure to follow SOPs for handling laptops on the line and a subsequent fall onto the steel plate jetway floor, is out of maintenance with the minor write-up (cracke

We'd left Los Angeles and flew the "Delta" track, R576 to Hawaii, awaiting a descent clearance for HNL. A beautiful sunset was in store, atleast for those of us above the clouds.
20:15

A 25 hour Honolulu layover.

 » ‎ rand peck, a life aloft

Ok, it's 8am, and I have to get this II written done fast, because I have a flight review starting at 10am. The first miracle: no software problems. The second miracle: I only get one wrong. Abso

With the sunshine in SOCAL, and my temporary bachelorhood, I decided to scoot up to French Valley for lunch. Departed NZY, Lindbergh transition direct MZB direct F70 own navigation with flight followi

Since no one from my office goes out on Friday nights and there isn’t a cool place to go like Oh Mulligan’s downtown, I usually try to go fly. Sanfor

I was back in Washington recently, on the first day of a five day trip. We had an hour and a half on the ground before turning, so I went out an took a look at the original terminal building. This i

Well, the annual on Mike Hotel is just about done. All compressions were acceptable (lowest 72, rest were 75+), oil looked good, tires only needed routine servicing, landing gear retraction test were

We'd left Los Angeles and flew the "Delta" track, R576 to Hawaii, awaiting a descent clearance for HNL. A beautiful sunset was in store, atleast for those of us above the clouds.
15:15

A 25 hour Honolulu layover.

 » ‎ rand peck, a life aloft

With the happenings going on at school, I've caught myself feeling, sounding and acting rather negative over the last several weeks. As any type of education progresses, there are highs and lows. Up

My Dell laptop, which survived my failure to follow SOPs for handling laptops on the line and a subsequent fall onto the steel plate jetway floor, is out of maintenance with the minor write-up (cracke

I was back in Washington recently, on the first day of a five day trip. We had an hour and a half on the ground before turning, so I went out an took a look at the original terminal building. This i

I had a lesson booked for this afternoon but the overcast is 600 feet with a light drizzle. Dave has a cross country planned for tomorrow morning, other than that he's booked up solid. There is howeve

That's how long it took me to fly from St. George, UT to Boston, Mass. and back...connecting in LAX both ways.

And that's not just flight time...that's from walking out the front door to wa

There are two main reasons why I cant get my arse out there to finish the last little bit of things I need to get for my licence. Weather
This has had to have been the crappiest and wettest fal

I'm playing bachelor right now, the Chief Photographer having left me to my own devices for a few days to visit family back east. Friday was a holiday. Hmm, what shall I do with my time?

With the sunshine in SOCAL, and my temporary bachelorhood, I decided to scoot up to French Valley for lunch. Departed NZY, Lindbergh transition direct MZB direct F70 own navigation with flight followi

I just spent the afternoon and evening with Aviatrix! It was a long drive to get to where she was but when you've been listening to the music for two

I saw an Air Force buddy of mine this past week and we talked about our days in pilot training in the panhandle of Texas.  We were laughing about an incident that happened during our ejectio

I had a lesson booked for this afternoon but the overcast is 600 feet with a light drizzle. Dave has a cross country planned for tomorrow morning, other than that he's booked up solid. There is howeve

We could have taken transit to San Jose, but we'd have to take the BART train all the way around the Bay to Oakland and then get another light train south from there, and it would take 2 1/2 hours,

I'm playing bachelor right now, the Chief Photographer having left me to my own devices for a few days to visit family back east. Friday was a holiday. Hmm, what shall I do with my time?