I am pleased to announce that I will very soon be employed again in the stupidest industry on the planet: aviation. I'm moving on Sunday and starting work on Tuesday. I'll leave you all to speculate a
Recently, in the cold weather, my Warrior’s battery has barely managed one try starting the plane — any more, and it goes flat. Most recently, it happened after I’d just been flying
I haven’t been able to find anyone to split time in the Duchess today. That’s unusual. So I’m going to fly by myself. Except there’s a hitch — the rental outfit calls
For those of you who just arrived from their vacation on the moon, I passed my Commercial Flight test! I-AM-NOW-A-COMMERCIAL-PILOT (almost)
Got to the airport at 10 this morning to prepare my aircraf
I just finished a 5-day trip.
The first night was spent at a nice and sunny destination in Cancun, Mexico. The weather was perfect, and my wife Melissa came along. We sat by the pool, and had a nice d
So in my earlier post I was optimistic that I was going to have a good week flying and I'd be out making some $$. Well, this week didn't work out as well as I'd hoped. Turns out I sat in Tampa for 4 d
Yesterday we did a flight from Rae-Edzo to Ekati and back, lots of the men on the flight had some really nice gloves, the traditional beaded kind that I think are cool. On the way home we only h
I’m all prepared to do ground today, because the visibility is five miles in haze. It’s one of those moist, humid, springy days when all the snow that melts during the day seems to find i
Struggling a bit this morning with their 21st century Internettelephone technology, the UCAP gang still manage to cover a lot ofground, geographically and categorically. The HAI helicopter show... ina
....at the schoolhouse. At least the hard part is over. I passed my Embraer 145 Second in command proficiency check Wed afternoon. Ive never been so excited as I was that afternoon. The whole pro
....at the schoolhouse. At least the hard part is over. I passed my Embraer 145 Second in command proficiency check Wed afternoon. Ive never been so excited as I was that afternoon. The whole pro
What's the big bump thing on the A380 center pedestal? It certainly looks like some sort of track-ball or mouse-like device. I also notice that the keyboard uses a QWERTY layout. That seems more r