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Well, on a small scale. This is one of those small personal achievements that I’ve been wanting to t

Winds steady at 16kts with some gusts up to 20 for good measure sealed the deal for a cancelled solo session today at the airport. I used the 2 hour time block as a study session, covering:

Schedules and weather finally aligned and we made a family pilgrimage by air to Kill Devil Hills, NC to take in the Wright Brother's Memorial and the beaches of the Outer Banks on Saturday, May 26th

Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame class announced
The News Journal
Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 1:03 pm

So I'm finally insured to fly Pilot-In-Command of the Twin Comanche. And now that I've been flying it a bit as the only person onboard, its got me thinking again how it seems I've begun a second cycl

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

During last weekend it had been ten years since I flew my first flight in a glider as a student. It was also

Don't worry, mom, I'm not depressed; Alberto is. Tropically Depressed, if you will. And no, I'm not using rain as a metaphor for Alberto's sadness...Tropical Depression Alberto was still, quite litera

While there are aircraft that are equipped to fly an instrument approach (Cat II or Cat II) and land with virtually no visibility, most of us mere mortals need to be able to see a fair distance down t

I just finished updating my logbook and was shocked to discover that I have spent slightly over one calander year in the air. 8,800 hours aloft.

Some intersting stats on major airport ops....

Top five U.S. airports, percent on-time arrival performance (2007)
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Alive and sweating.

 » ‎ Escaping the Patch

My new weight machine and cjsmith's rowing machine were delivered and set up on Monday. Now I

OK, I'm finally committing to finishing the single-engine ATP. I've chosen an examiner, who I'm hopefully meeting next Tuesday. I've chosen an instructor to work with. I'm doing my first flight thi

Dr. Sanity should be read daily. By everyone.

Margaret said she had photographs of her time in Germany once, but she doesn't know where they are. Perhaps they were lost when she moved to Canada. She does have a row of photo albums chronicling her