The other night I was flying along at 10,000ft in the SUV. I was really enjoying my last flight for the week, the drone of the engines, the unusual warmth of the Janitrol heater and some descent weath
I haven't written a post today, but I found this in my pile of unposted items. I was going to do a technical
post, but I'm feeling kinda lazy, so you get a sappy story with frogs. I've heard a relat
I've been at the skool for an uncountable number of hours, and my head is killing me. I'm trying to cut back on caffeine. Bad idea. Linda is holed up in the sim with a student. Student A has been
I've been asked to fly high schoolers around again. This time, I only have one group of three, and they'll fly for half an hour each. Two of them are taking classes as a local tech college for air t
Some of us in the US GA scene have this thing about Cirrus drivers. You know: arrogant, a little clueless, flying fast complex planes (toys for the boys) a little beyond their experience
A while back I mentioned that I was getting a 1TB RAID-5 Network-Attached Storage and Gigabit network to go with 2007 being the year-of-being-paperless. So far I've managed to receive the Gigabit swi
Well, today isn't going quite as well as yesterday. I woke up dizzy and nauseous. Probably the Darvocet. I stayed in bed until noon, eating crackers and Jell-O. Now I'm sitting up in the living ro
I went twin flying again this Friday during my lunch. The weather was a 1600 ft ceiling, and we had some light rain here and there, so we just did circuits. Runway 27 at London is long enough for to
I received an interesting email recently, from another airline pilot who criticized my enthusiasm for the job. Well, OK. He contends that the industry isn't what it used to be, that it's no longer f
I received an interesting email recently, from another airline pilot who criticized my enthusiasm for the job. Well, OK. He contends that the industry isn't what it used to be, that it's no longer f