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Time this lesson: 1.7 hours
Total Time: 11.4 hours
Landings: 40

So today's weather was much like the previous lesson, strong winds out of the south, sunny skies, and haze. My FI

... whatever, you deal. Things have been pretty busy getting back into flying with students and trying to finish up my first master's class, so I haven't had much time for myself. Hopefully I'll be

See that box on stilts? That's where I have been living for the past while.

So I'm sitting in our base in the South and the pager goes off. It says I have my sim ride the next day and to be at headquarters in the morning. I knew this was coming, but I was hoping to get a trip

Hey Guys! If you are noticing a very slow speed of the site or disconnecting from the database you are not the only one. I have been experiencing problems with it starting this morning. My hosting pro

I've tossed an entire file drawer's worth of old academic papers and stuff. The few that were valuable I've scanned. Since I began my scanning project, I've gotten rid of the equivalent of 4 file dr

I came across this pic today. It was taken by NASA in 1973 during a full solar eclipse of a French Concorde. Pretty neat Eh?

When I had had my coffee brake (I do not drink coffee but I like having coffee brakes any

I'm very pleased to say that my toe held up admirably during the trip to Italy and Germany. Despite walking almost all day every day, and then dancing 1/3 of the time (that's more than 30 tips in 4 d

After my foot surgery, which involved about 2 months of inactivity, my weight had gone up substantially. I started around 152-153, and ended up around 158. After I could use my foot again, I started

Next year Pilatus will be coming out with the new Next Generation PC12. It has all new

No, we haven't been active on this blog. There seemed little point in posting diatribes over minutia or 'inside baseball' events that only the controllers could identify with but might be invisible t

So far May has been a great month for flying and making some much needed $$. Thanks to the cool schedule change, I got to spend the first week of the month at home with the fam and then got to do 5 an

There's much relief in our household, as my hubbie has just passed his bi-annual sim check, which is a two day white knuckle ride (both for him and me!) They put the pilots through all sorts of emerge

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. (check left hand column for series