I stepped off the airplane this morning in relative daylight at around 3:30 am. The sun doesn’t ever go down completely here in Alaska during the summer, and the tendancy for forgetting to sleep
I had the amazing opportunity to ride along in a B-17 Flying Fortress flying as part of the Wings of Freedom tour, made its way from Porter County Municipal Airport in Valparaiso, IN to Chicago Execut
I think I have accomplished the art of sitting around at the airport today. I have had 7 hours of sitting between my two flights.
30 in 7? It is a term that is very frequently used when pilots exceed
Title: From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science
Author: Doug Morris
ISBN: 1550227653
Size: 184 Pages
Rating: 3 out of 5.
The author uses a fictional flight from Toronto to
I hadn't flown in nearly two months and with the flight test looming I decided last week that it was time to get back in an aeroplane.
The way my first flight after a lay-off normally goes thus: firs
I won't be blogging much for the next two weeks. It's been a long, long time since my wife and I had a real vacation, one with no family or work obligations, no job interviews. And while I'm not a big
In the end my decision was made easy by the fact that the plane was grounded due to a large oil leak and no other plane was available. It also would have been easy on the day, too: driving last night
There was a line of thunderstorms to the west of the airport again yesterday but, they didn't get close enough to interfere with our pattern work. We did get a couple very light showers while we were
There was a line of thunderstorms to the west of the airport again yesterday but, they didn't get close enough to interfere with our pattern work. We did get a couple very light showers while we were
I’ll start out by saying that this is written in the morning of the forth day, because I took the increasingly rare opportunity to go to bed early. I feel much better now.
Yesterday started very wet
That's right, I'm not lost, I'm just temporarily unsure of position.
I'm going to ruin the cliff-hangar I left you with in my last post and tell you that I made it back from my qualifying cross-count
If I had a “frequently asked questions” list for glass panels, the first question on the list would probably be: “is it legal to fly with electronic charts alone (ie. no paper on boa
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