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You'll recall that the Regional Aviation Medical Officer has said "not on warfarin," with reference to getting my medical back. After I reported that, my mailbox flooded with your suggestions for alte
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Years ago, I phoned a company called Millardair, looking for a job, and was
informed by the person who answered the telephone that they weren't flying anymore.
I remember being confused. Many of t
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I suspect that my googling reader was looking for information on cockpit controls, and yesterday's post, had it existed then, would have met his needs. But the really interesting things that need to b
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The title of this blog entry How To Control The Things in a Cockpit was the input for one of the Google searches that found this blog. What a marvellous question. I wish I knew. There are a l
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I started this while I was working at Victory Airways. I was even going to pass my less silly suggestions up the chain of command at such point that I'd been there long enough for anyone to give a d
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Groundschool doesn't consume my days (but oddly pays as much as Phoenix did) and I'm picking up a bit of other
work here and there, weather permitting. One of the low points of underemployment is
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Have you ever watched that airplane disaster porn show called Mayday? It's Canadian but it's available in other countries, called Air Emergency in the United States and Air Crash In
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This blog entry includes extensive spoilers for the new James Bond movie Casino Royale, which I saw this week, so don't read it if you want to go into the movie knowing nothing about it.
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I've been on the telephone a lot with an airline recently, but it's not about employment. You'll remember that there was no medevac available for me out of Lynx Lake, so I
November 21, 2006
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Recently I met a pilot who works with an International Air Transport Association (IATA) committee responsible for resolving issues surrounding the transport of dangerous goods. He said, "everyone al
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
--Janis Joplin
This morning I called four different doctors to confirm appointments, find out the results of tests, and ensure that the r
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Not many people read my blog on the weekend--they're all surfing from work Monday to Friday--and I'm not in much of a blogging mood, so here's something I was working on a while ago.
I like
November 18, 2006
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The first thing I noticed back home was how dark it is here. It was dark when I got back, because it was the
middle of the night, but it was still dark in the morning, and throughout the next day. E
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I've left out a few other encounters with people I "met on the internet" but who have less public personalities. One, a pilot for United Airlines, took me around to the lesser known San Francisco to
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As I am restricted from drinking alcohol anyway, I volunteered to be the designated driver for touring (and tasting the wares of) famed California wineries. One of our number was Canadian-born but liv
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I left off earlier in the middle of the
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Having spent four hours at Moffatt Field the day before, I thought I wouldn't be able to convince anyone to look at more aircraft history, but they were up for the
Hil
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After spending a day ferrying people up and down highway 101 to get to meetings, those remaining in the expedition ended up in Mountain View for the night. At the time, I didn't see any mountains, bec
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This is an interruption to the Calfornia report, but I want to post it while it is still almost topical. I meant to post it on the eleventh but I hadn't yet had a chance to type it up.
In Canada No
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We could have taken transit to San Jose, but we'd have to take the BART train all the way around the Bay to
Oakland and then get another light train south from there, and it would take 2 1/2 hours,
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As I've previewed already, I tagged along like a pet to a conference in San Francisco, to learn what my life would be like if I were a full-time computer nerd and had to go to error initiative meeting
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I'm culture shocked by California and I will tell you all about it later, because I don't have time now to inventory the number of people I've cut off during wild swerves to avoid or reach freeway e
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For various reasons, mainly associated with having many nerdy friends with frequent flyer miles, I am currently in Silicon Valley. It's very weird to see office towers sporting the same corporate na
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I've had some interesting e-mailed comments about my
post on seat belt extenders, and I
also notice a lot of search e
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No, it's not an error that my blog has been indicating that I haven't talked to Shrew in years. It's a good company where I almost got hired in August 2001. And then you know what happened and why n
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Air Badger is one of my top choices for a company to work for, always has been, which is how it got to be so high on my alphabet. I've been in contact with a few people there since leaving Phoenix, bu
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Today's story isn't mine, but is used with permission. It involves importing penguin eggs to the USA from the
Falkland Islands, a British possession near
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Mark at
Information Echo poses
a question about an airplane taking off on a conveyor belt. Go there, read the q
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One guy I flew with was very particular about radio work, and this day there was some kind of air rally in progress. A bunch of small airplanes, many of them American-registered, were headed north tog
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This is one of those nerdy technical posts with nothing in it about potato chips, underwear or amazing telephone calls. If that's not your thing, come back tomorrow and I'll tell you a story about fun
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
--Abraham Lincoln
I'm flying a little on and off, but mostly job hunting. This consists of finding out whom t
