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I can get my foot wet! Woohoo! You wouldn't know how wonderful this is if you haven't had to sit next to a foot that hasn't been washed in 3 weeks all day long. (That was a very complicated sentenc

What is it about Google? They come out with something really cool, groundbreaking even, but still kind of rough around the edges. They release it in Beta so everyone else can see how cool it is. Th

The point of yesterday's posting was just to show you the so-called tan door, so I skipped over most of the medical. But e-mail shows that among my readership, only the commercial pilots undergo regul

Students A and B cancelled for snow.

This soon-to-be Super Bowl ad reminds me of hangin’ with my main man Tony Austin in The Lounge. Whazz’up, Tony? The shop keeper is playing th

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Some comedians poking fun at the news media and news chopper 4 on the east coast. Pretty funny.

Been flying alot this past two weeks, haven't had time to get on blog lately. But had this

i passed my sic checkride for the embraer 145 today.

i was a little nervous, but somehow managed to pull it off.

so now it is time for LOFT (line-oriented flight training) and

One of the scariest moments in my flight training to-date occurred yesterday.  It happened on the ground after 40 minutes of circuit-bashing.  Back in the briefing room my instructor turned

What's the best thing about being a flight instructor? Standing in a freezing hangar at 8:30 p.m. talking flying with somebody who is really starting to “get it.” Never mind that I haven't eaten

I finally got around to doing my second cross country solo.

After my last flight I wanted a day without an overcast, or at the very least, a high overcast. I didn't mind if it was a bit win

I'm back flying.  I took an extended lunch-break yesterday and headed out to Weston.  After three months there was little chance that yesterday was going to be solo day but it was good none

Former student is all signed off for flying the 150. But we're going to do a few landings, anyway.ColdOil cap stuck onLots of trafficFun with 40 degrees of flapsPretty sunset

Student A:Nice steady xwind36, then 27It's all mental.

One thing I wanted to conscientiously avoid in my flight training was developing a fear of communicating with air traffic control. It’s one thing to chat with other pilots on an uncontrolled ai

Long-time readers -- or at least those that have been here for about year or so -- will recall a visit to the ER

I guess that last post was going the same way as the curling stone, sorry! Besides, it doesn't feel like more than a few days have gone by since I did that one.

For those of you that didn'

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