So I got home Friday night after a 12 day rotation and while I was gone Jack learned a new trick. He's trying to say "music", but it doesn't come out quite right. As soon as he realized he could have
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it, so they say.
I think that Bell Canada is forgetting history.
Despite having lost a bundle of customers around 2003 (I was one of them) when they last t
After a rough week at work it was a distinct pleasure to run into some friends at the airport. They reported that they were on their way to Hollister for lunch. I asked if they minded if I invited m
A description of a typical day's flight from Montreal to Vancouver and back - as a backdrop for a detailed, non-technical description of what an airline pilot does.
Frequently my readers know of resources or documents relevant to my postings and you post them in the comments. It's great, like an intelligent search engine. Some of the URLs are long, and sometimes
So I got home Friday night after a 12 day rotation and while I was gone Jack learned a new trick. He's trying to say "music", but it doesn't come out quite right. As soon as he realized he could have
Goals: Checkride prep flight #1!Practice maneuvers, keeping to standards.Get more of the remaining required instrument time in. Flight: Today we went up for 1.6 of the 3 required hours of ch
Last night I tried a new location for photography - our driveway. This is actually a great location, except for the really bright streetlight. The light definitely limited what I
I guess I've taken this flying thing about as far as I can without tucking into some more training. One of my goals for a long time has been to get my commercial ticket as a prelude to an instructor r
Leafing through the March edition of Pilot Magazine (UK), was an article about a flight from New York to see the US F1 Grand Prix in Indianapolis.
Standard fare, until they decided to go back via O'Ha
It looks pretty certain that the airplane piggy bank will not be busted open for an ATPL course. The nice lady at Vision Express gave me an eye exam and, while the gross measurement of my esopho
One of the things I have realized during my instructor training is just how much we have to learn. Everyday aviation tasks like taking off and landing aren’t just absorbed, they have to be taug
I just posted this comment on Sulako's blogsite in response to his excellent story of life as a medevac pilot. It is an interesting, though sad and perplexin
Small airplanes didn't kill me. Skydiving didn't kill me. Scuba didn't kill me. Motorcycles didn't kill me. Firearms didn't kill me.
A pundit might want to add the word "yet" to each of those s
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