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From Sportscenter, the sum of all wisdom... Or was that the Godfather?
"Serenity now, obscenities later."

I like it. I think I might use it with students.

And the new offic

I signed off Student E for a long solo xc Friday. I told him to call me when he arrived back at KMIC and tell me how it went. It was interesting. He had flight following, and after some minutes of

It’s July 1st already! Where in the world is the summer going? It always seems that after July 4th, the summer is over. It always goes way too fast. Today, I started a two day trip. A ver

I'm at Lisa's parents house right now, hanging out with them for the Canada Day w

Today was back to work for myself. I didn’t see a whole of changes this morning through security. I did notice a few people were more tense. TSA has said they are going to be tightening s

Flight hours: 0
Aviation Reading: Aviation Magazines

Over the last few months I have had a few emails from readers asking about the web-based application I designed to help with tracki

My plan for today was to get certified on the Cessna 150. I thought it might be a stretch to get both of us in the plane with only 400 lbs of weight for him and me, but I wanted to at least get certif

The Indonesian airline industry was dealt a blow by the European Commission, which reportedly has banned all 51 registered Indonesian carriers from operating into the EU. While no Indonesian airlines

I haven't yet decided how much to tell you about my latest job, so I'll throw out a few things that could happen in any operation. There will be a lot of travel. (And not the kind that connects Wea

Total time, including simulators: 3,325
Dual instruction given: 2,030
Landings done or supervised: 8,006
Cross-country: 1,061 (of which 777 were not with students)
Night: 197.8

I haven't been doing much observational astronomy lately, mainly because it gets dark so late that it's bed time before I would have a chance to set up the telescope. Last night I decided to stay up

This is the first PilotJohn.com Week in Review for my blog. I have been blogging for a while, but this new site started up on May 15, 2007. Only a month and half into blogging on PilotJohn.com, I am e

Is it wrong to be camping…yet still enjoying (very occasionally) the complimentary campground-wide WiFi? ;-) (Photo complements of my MacBook iSight camera)

[FL226-227] Heute war ein großer Tag: Ich bin das allererste Mal nach meiner Prüfung zum CR SEP mit eine ECHO-Klasse Maschine geflogen. Das heißt, das erste Mal eine Maschine gechartert.

I was introduced to a bunch of new things this week. I got to handle an iPhone and no, I'm not the proud owner. Fancy, flashy devices like this don't fit wel

Thanks, everyone, for the support/commiseration/advice...

We stopped by the airport again yesterday ~5 pm and 388 was still shiny-side down. The insurance guy is supposed to come out tom

Interesting imagery of air traffic to and from North America over a two day period: