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I got an interesting letter in the mail today from Transport Canada. In it was an advisory circular, entitled "Protecting the health & safety of employees on board aircraft in epidemic situations

Pilotcast Video report #3 from EAA Airventure 2007 in Oshkosh, WI, USA in July of 2007. Some hangar flying after the User Fees panel with Phil Boyer

Over at Consumerist.com I found an interesting article that decried weather delays in aviation. The article quoted

Commercials on TV Nationwide,
Seminars in towns all over the country that had thousands of folks signing up for big loans for training,
and news of a bent helicopter or two every week...

I got a call last Wednesday night from one of our schedulers. We always know it's scheduling by the area code...any 703 number is the company's front office; most of the time, it's the scheduling offi

Almost done, 28R... SFO

With Denver far behind us, we passed over a freshly powdered Mammoth Lake.

Another view of the ramp in SDL as the sun goes down.

This is a view of the ramp in Scottsdale. It barely shows 1/3 of the ramp in front o

Episode 41 This pilot told me a funny story about why this ditsy Flight Attendant decided to fly and it was so funny that I started to ask other Flight Attendants and pilots why they decided to fly.&n

I'm flying north, headed for the mountains. There are actually a lot of hills right here, as I well know from my few days bicycling in the area, and the visibility is not bad, considering my proximity

Wrote this out last week, but didn’t have time to finish and post until now-  The other night we finally met up with another local pilot A knows and went out. It was so nice to be with another

Watching the -37ºC sunrise as I drive back home to bed.


The past week

Watching the -37ºC sunrise as I drive back home to bed.


The past week

If you look at the advances made with the 787, there is a desire among operators reeling under inflating oil prices to see those economic and technical benefits available for a new 777.

This year the Soccer EURO 2008 will be held in Switzerland and Austria. It is a really big event for all the people, because soccer is the favorite sport Nr.1 in Germany/Austria and Switzerland. This

It's snowing in Minneapolis. An hour ago huge flakes were blowing sideways and obscuring even the shops across the street; now the wind has died down and the snowfall looks more picturesque than malev

BlogFriend ThirdWaveDave has had a few health issues over the last year.
He has endured them with grace and a positive attitude. We talk

You probably know, John McCain scares the puddin' outta me. We've all heard stories of his short-tempered, foul-mouthed, near out-of-co