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After procrastinating for about 3 months I finally went to visit the Montreal ACC earlier this afternoon. The building is located north of runway Trudeau’s runway 24R. It is surrounded by barbed wi

It's been 10 days since I've flown a multi engine aircraft and that was the first since just after Halloween. All three Senecas have been down at once. All for annuals. I had made arrangements to f

Visit an airline training center and you might be surprised to find a lot more than the stereotypical rows of multi-million dollar flight simulators. Modern training programs flow us through a cascad

I’ve become an official Mac convert, as has my wife. Those who have hung around my blog for a while will recall that I took the venture into the world of the Mac

My first ill passenger. They were not a squeamish nor nervous passenger at all. It was the fact she was wearing too heavy clothing for the day and the effects of the sun shining into a Cessna 172 ca

Student A cancelled for weather. I was going to cover another instructor's flight when he couldn't go, but that was also cancelled.

In what has to be on the largest video files I've ever seen on Google Video, 15:01

No Joy

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Heading south for a few days soon; more pics of palm trees and sunburns coming right up.

An old story now.

At the time, I wasn't sure if we had crashed or not.

We we

First, a reminder that you may send your aviation questions to me at support@fromthecockpit.com with "Aviation Question" in the subject. Be sure to check out this week's Ask Cap'n Meryl question &

First, a reminder that you may send your aviation questions to me at support@fromthecockpit.com with "Aviation Question" in the subject. Be sure to check out this week's Ask Cap'n Meryl question &

Another flight with new guy Bryn today. Stunning morning. Still air, blue sky. It was like walking on glass. Steep turns, stalls, practiced forced landings. Fine with the 45 degree turns, but took a c

UCA blog points us to a cool peek inside a B777

Sorry for the hiatus, folks! It was expected, given interceding plans, but there it is and it feels like it's been going on for ever and that it's never going to end.

L'aero is planning to

The 2007 privately-owned vehicle reimbursement rate for airplanes as established by our friends at the IRS is $1.07 per mile.

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Playing Hookey

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When I began my career, flight simulators were pretty crude. They had a limited degree of motion and the visual system if installed at all, was a CRT screen mounted in front of each pilot which only

I just went through a whole pile of pictures that Dad copied onto my computer when they were here, of all their travels and things since I last saw them. So not only am I feeling quite homesick, now I