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Over at Slashdot this evening there was a very interesting “Ask Slashdot” post which presented the follow

When one receives a letter, it’s always politest to respond. We were fortunate to receive an e-mail from one we’ll call ‘Freebird.’ The letter read as follows:

Are you ever going

See Part 1 here. It was the heaviest I’d ever packed for a two-day trip to work. The reason was that it was really going to end up being a marathon f

All set to go yesterday on the IFR renewal and then the fog started rolling in! No worries, reschedule for Thursday. Thursday comes around doing the pre-flight and the TC is broken! AARRGH! Looks like

I had to laugh at this combination of newspaper headlines. If you can't read it in the ph

ok, here is my disclaimer: All the pictures came from Airliners.net
Now, that's out of the way, it would be remiss of me not to make a video using some of t

Many potential pilots never do start flying, because they perceive light aviation as something expensive and reserved to an elite. The number of active pilots has never been so low, and to help improv

We see that phrase a lot, don't we? We folks on the political right are wackos, crazos, and Nazis.
Yeah, sure.

One of my blog acquaintances, a political conservative, has, for two nigh

I'm continually searching the blogosphere for other "helicopter" blogs. Weblogs come and go, and the only other thriving helo blog I have found is Maria's Blog.

I love getting questions from readers and my favorite questions are the ones I don’t already know.  Such as the question I received lately from Jon regarding the max altitude on Tango routes: H

A description of a typical day’s flight from Montreal to Vancouver and return - as a backdrop for a detailed, non-technical description of what an airline pilot does. (check left hand column for ser

Well, I guess life continues… Bf’s been off for the past few days, but life has been pretty uneventful. I heard back from the company that I applied for the job with, and have just complet

This flight occurred Monday afternoon/evening.

I am now signed off to fly the Archer despite getting a good reminder about "IMSAFE" and human factors. Everything was going fine, slow flight

One of my airplane partners left almost a week ago on a coast to coast trip and I'm about ready to jump on the aluminum tube and join him for a couple of weeks. We're planning on hitting several avia