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After four Atlantic crossings and layovers in Amsterdam and Boston, it's back to DTW so we can all commute home. It was a wonderful trip with great crews. Thanks everyone for fantastic support and g

Here is a shot from my new Blackberry Curve 8300 which I recently bought. My previous job r

The profile view of an instrument approachAs is the case with many weekend flyers, losing the ability to file and fly under Instrument Flight R

Onboard the MV Malaspina ferry now on our way to Alaska. We seem to have Internet here in

Solo 20: Pontiac Practice
PIC time logged this flight: 2.4

Another fun "jam session" up at Pontiac, as in "traffic jam". I flew up to see what I might expect next Saturday in terms of

...In record time. Unfortunately, it was a record for my car, not an airplane.

Without saying anything about the irony of an airline pilot and his fiancee having to DRIVE halfway across the

Student I:  Two real (not actual) instrument approaches, one with vectors and a bit shaky, and one own nav and much better.   Good situational awareness.  Will do more nonprecision approaches and

This past weekend cjsmith and I went to our first "star party". Not wanting to start small, w

Somebody's already commented on my "Options" post wanting to know what happened today. Well, the answer isn't very satisfying: I don't know. I won't know until next week or so. I think I did all right

A lady in Maryland was walking her dog in the park and noticed a big shiny metal object and thought it was material from a UFO spaceship. From the USA Today she quoted: “I was like, ‘Oh m

He was four years my senior, but had put much more stress on his bodily machinery...
A lifelong smoker and drinker, he definitely was a "work hard- play hard" kinda guy.

When I started

Early this morning, waaaay too early, we flew east for the day. I didn't bring my camera's data cable so I can't upload the cool pics I took until I get home.

So I'll briefly talk about a

Only four more hours of driving for this leg of our journey to Alaska. Then we meet an Alaska state ferryliner in Bellingham, Washington and will be lett

Nothing in aviation goes according to plan. I left Ottawa last weekend thinking I was going to Idaho for a Husky Fly-in. The smoke haze in the air got worse as I headed West, I started to see it in

He he he. Had to throw a silly title in there one of these blogs. I'll get back to the reason behind that title in a bit. Funny story. Wow, it has been an amazing week with this fire since we came

I met a Midwest Airlines crew on the hotel van recently in BOS. Amidst all the talk of AirTran (old Valuejet) attempting a hostile takeover at Midwest, they informed me that good 'ol NWA was position

Here is your PilotTube video! The hottest thing in aviation right now is the Boeing 787! This is the first episode of Revolutionizing Flight from Boeing and shows you how Boeing is changing the way w

Early morning start this morning at 6.30 a.m. and finished my day around 2.30 p.m. It is nice to have the rest of the day off. A very easy and relaxed day yesterday, and it is wonderful to get the fly

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My first lesson for my night rating was last night. It went well! I got to meet my new FI when I showed up at dispatch at 8:30, she's extremely nice. Since legal night didn't start until 8:57, I took

WOW! Sorry for not having updated this in soooo long. Anyways, I’ve been busy for a little bit. I am now sitting in Anguilla, BWI (British West Indies), and having a “rough life”. My