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We departed the Mount Rushmore area on Monday shortly before lunch. The poor weather from the night before had washed out any chance of one last campfire before a long stretch on the road, and also

I had to update my blog template so I could add a bloglist. The bad news is that now it has this enormous sidebar that looks really ungainly in Firefox (haven't tried it on IE yet). As you all know,

For my American readers, I would like to point you to a new website I discovered a while ago called Ask A CFI. The owner is a flight instructor that encourages i

Your Captain Speaking  My buddy,

They've been telling me we are going to Nevada next. I was given a day off in which I didn't do much but swim laps in the (big! outdoor!) hotel pool, and draft flight plans for Reno and Las Vegas. The

AirTran - 180
Comair - 300
ExpressJet - 400
Colgan - 60
PSA - 27
United - 950

And that's just the short list of companies who are going to be placing pilots out of

This is the second post in a series about preparing an IFR flight, which I will hopefully do this summer, when visiting friends in England. It will be a Bornemouth - Guernsey leg, and today I’ll

Surprisingly, I haven't read many people complaining about the heat. That's probably because you all get to sit in nice air conditioned offices all day. It's killing me, though. My home office (whi

Surprisingly, I haven't read many people complaining about the heat. That's probably because you all get to sit in nice air conditioned offices all day. It's killing me, though. My home office (whi

Hopey, Changey, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Bashful and Doc...
More and more, this guy is looking like Snow White's sidekick.

Well it was almost two years to the hour that I undertook my PPL flight test, I took off out of Hamilton airport with head

Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #87 "Just Hangar Flying"