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August already. On the weekend shift too. Two flights this morning, a good start and another 2.8 hours in the logbook. Hopeful to exceed 30 hours this month. Fingees crossed. Still looking at renewing

Received a question tonight from a northern aviator: In Canada we have the Designated Airspace Handbook. It’s the legal document that defines Canada’s airspace.  Does the FAA have somethi

A small two-man camping tent at Oshkosh is not the best place to spent a restful night. (Or as my friend put it: "that's not a two-man tent. A two girl tent, maybe!") I was thinking of doing a

There's something almost magical

Here’s a question that was recently sent to me: It has happened to me twice recenely. I fly a Cessna 172R (1997). Under very normal weather conditions at low altitudes like 2,000 to 3,000 MSL, t

I was looking at the Designated Airspace Handbook tonight and noticed something p

One of the unfortunate side effects of procrastination is that the amount of work you need to do in one sitting increases. A perfect example is my complete failure to post about the

I hadn't been to London Gatwick (LGW) in many years, since my DC-10 FO days in fact, and looked forward to returning when the company announced new 757 service recently. Join in as Bob, Paul and I fin

The Isles of Scilly (the locals frown upon the phrase “the Scilly Isles” for reasons that I don’t really understand) are an archipelago of 150 islands off of the Cornish coast. St

Any pilot probably at least heard of Jeppesen. If you never heard about that company, let’s say that it’s providing pilots worldwide with with en-rout

Yeah, okay, okay, LUDACRIS! ... Hey!
I'm back on it like I just signed my record deal
yeah the best is here, the Bentley Coupe paint is dripping wet, it got sex appeal
never shoul

Three different friends finally persuading me to come to Oshkosh. We took an airline flight to Appleton, and as soon as we came off the runway we could tell something was up. We crossed a taxiway

I felt prompted to write this by a post on another pilot's wife blog (which I like very much) - Musings of Cpt J's Wife. In it, she

Another short post again to report on 767 training.

The Tylenol was not needed and the final week of simulator training went smoothly.

We even spent a session in the latest 757 s

A week ago John flew down in the SR22 with a neighbor/friend Mike and Mike's son, Adam, to give me a lift up to Williamsburg.

I did a quick preflight while the guys had some lunch and then,

"In a free country you could have sued the hospital. As it is, those who murdered your daughter will suffer no penalty."

How sad.
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