The point of yesterday's posting was just to show you the so-called tan door, so I skipped over most of the medical. But e-mail shows that among my readership, only the commercial pilots undergo regul
I mentioned that I renewed my medical recently to confirm for the safety of the travelling public that I don't require a seeing-eye dog as well as a co-pilot in order to fly an airplane. The procedure
Back in 1947, in the interest of matching young people with suitable careers, a vocational institution made an educational film about the various occupations associated with air transport. It's part f
My offer to post other people's stories elicited
this tale.
The Airline issued crewmembers a small book of
interesting information and trivia about
different landmarks that we could occasionally
You think you're in suspense? This isn't something
I'm reading on a blog, this is my actual life. A
company I dreamed of working for called me for an
interview. I blew the interview. And then
Aluwings' comment is correct. I am cruelly messing with you. I've learned that trick from Fate, which delights in doing the same with me. My fate hangs on the whim of thre different companies, who are
I'm writing this while enjoying the two squares of chocolate left over from yesterday's chocolate bar. Nobody guessed that one! Only two squares, mind you but it counts as not having finished t
I have proof today that astronomers drink a lot of beer. Is there a non-beer-related environment in which someone can say, "I wish we could get a big infrared telescope and stick it on an airplane and
I often steal stories from others (but if you e-mail me anything I will ask before posting it) and if you have a aviation story you want told but don't want it on your blog I'd probably have fu
I'm sure I've mentioned before that if there were a northern flying
olympiad, one of the events would involve taking all the seats out of a
Weedwhacker and putting them back in. In the dark. This
Over the last few months I've received some
requests to publicize informational websites. I'll have
a look at a few today.
BrakesOff
The BrakesOff
interface
My apologies to nervous fliers (believe it or not some read this blog), but there are lots of things in aviation
with morbid names. We do take our jobs seriously so when we talk of a "graveyard spir
I'm working on a coffin corner post, but I'm not done yet, so you're getting a few notes from a movie I saw instead.
One day I watched the DVD extras from the movie The Incredibles (an animate
The conveyor belt problem we discussed to death some time ago reminded me of something else that I think is
interesting, and which goes against what you might "know." It also has to do with "speed
I haven't written a post today, but I found this in my pile of unposted items. I was going to do a technical
post, but I'm feeling kinda lazy, so you get a sappy story with frogs. I've heard a relat
Last time I posted on holds I got rather carried away and ended up with a three post extravaganza on timing holds the way no one ever does. People e-mailed me to mock me for it. Those who had you re
People sometimes have called me a "bush pilot." Like "commercial pilot" the term has a different meaning for
pilots than for passengers. To a passenger, a "commercial pilot" is someone who flies a
I keep intending to write technical posts, knowing that I've been too heavy on the travelogue and personal soap opera of late, but things keep happening. You read yesterday's entry. Well more things h
I managed to get through to management at Badger today and the news is both better and worse than I had feared.
My qualifications were judged to be excellent and my interview to be strong, but the
I've been unexpectedly "tagged" by a reader and GPS-blogger named Dave to participate in a blog meme called "Five Things You Don't Know About Me." Considering
I flew to another city for an interview yesterday. As a passenger, I watched out the window as we taxied out
for take-off. There, in the morning darkness, from an aircraft holding short of our ru
Despite the horror on some passengers' faces when they discover that a great big airplane is being flown by an
itty btty woman, there are very few tasks in an airplane that require more physical str
Apparently I took a long enough break from blogging. I can tell, because I almost forgot to blog. I remembered last night when I checked my e-mail and found it full of New Year's best wishes and sug
