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Depending on where or for how many years you have travelled by airline, you may or may not have seen a paper airline ticket. I'm not talking about a boarding pass, or the e-mail you print out from you
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Many airports have a historical "Something Field" name in addition to their official "Something County Regional Airport" name, with the field being named after a local aviation here, sometimes simply
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I've taken off from the Canadian prairies and am heading south. My take-off
was six minutes after filed, which will affect my arrival time at customs. They
told me on the phone, rather fiercely, t
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Waiting in the departure lounge for a flight, I hear the CSA radio to ask
someone to bring her a bottle of hand sanitizer. A while later someone calls
back and say they only have a large 500 mL bo
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I have a blog to recommend to you today. It's called
Where the Hell Is Phil and is the hilarious and illuminating adventures of a young man working
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About the time Blogger autoposts this timestamped entry, and if the surface winds are low, a man named Michel Fournier is riding a balloon-lifted capsule, preparing to jump out 130,000 feet above sout
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One area where both aviators and drivers can have fun with customization is in their paint schemes. Most of the airplanes I have ever flown have had boring paint jobs, or paint inspired by the fashion
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One of the most common complaints about security is the rudeness of the
screeners. I typed out a whole lot of theorizing on customer service in the
US and Canada, southern USA hospitality, the Bri
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So of course to go to work I have to get on a commercial flight. And to get
on a commercial flight I have to go through security. Ahh, security. Everyone
besides people who intend to blow up the a
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This pretty much stands on its own.
An airline pilot was found hiding behind a shed wearing only flip-flops and a wristwatch as a nighttime romp in the woods with a flight attendant ended with both u
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I believe I've blogged in the past about the insanity that is Flugtag. It's a shameless corporate event dreamed up to publicize Red Bull energy drink, I guess playing off their slogan, Red Bull Giv
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Next morning the weather in the Toronto area and across the lakes is already
fine. No fog. I call Canadian customs with my arrival report. It always
irritates me that it's called an arrival "repor
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Leaving Rapid City, I overfly the famous South Dakota Badlands. This
reminds me that I want to set up a cross country iPod load that has all
the songs that mention parts of the country come on at
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This blog should probably not be read over lunch.
The only thing lofty about this blog entry is the altitude I'm
discussing. I was trying to find a bodily functions post I remember, by
May 17, 2008
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I realized after I made the early morning pick up arrangement that I
had been going east, so that made my pick up an hour earlier by body time,
but it still gave me legal rest, so I'm glad I did i
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I'm supposed to go to Toronto next. I find this out while sitting in the hotel lobby, so I fire up the laptop but while it's booting use the USA Today method to determine this will take me twelve hour
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Lately I've been using the free version of Voyager navigational
planning software, from
Seattle Avionics.
It's impressive. You tell it the
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So
it seems a drunk guy managed to wander onto the runway in Dallas. That's quite a trick, getting onto airside, crossing th
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We're wrapping up the job in the Fresno area, and the project manager gives the flight crews a day off and the use of a vehicle, so we drive to
Yosemite National Par
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We walk out to where our airplanes are parked side by side and the gear door on the 'repaired' airplane is open again. Ack. My co-worker will investigate, as she's the one scheduled to command it toda
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California is a rich state, and a left-leaning state. A lot of public money is spent looking after people, protecting them from the ills of the world. We saw this during the fires, in earthquake prepa
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One of the problems I asked to be looked at during the maintenance stop was that the right gear door was occasionally dropping down after shutdown, instead of staying closed over the opening into whic
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My airplane is in the hangar for scheduled maintenance. I flew it here in the dark, with a slight tailwind that brought me in 0.2 h before the maintenance was due, rather than 0.1 before as I had plan
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While I'm flying in California, a hard-working flight follower tells me that "Traffic is an əlɐɹ'əs, one o'clock five miles east to west." I report "Looking," but the truth
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REALLY. APOLOGIES FOR SHORT. BUSY. #END-------------------------------------------------------
From: FLT_XXXX 04-May-2008 19:15 UTC
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625m (2050ft), 245 km/h (
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I just want to say that I love my coworkers. I avoid blogging about them because I don't have the right to tell other people's stories without their permission. I am willing to suffer--or at least to
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Looks like de Havilland is off the hook for this one. I spoke to a guy on the ramp whose girlfriend works in the tower, and it turns out the gear didn't collapse at all. They just forgot to put it dow
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Today I am in Tallahassee, Florida. Specifically, sitting in a nice FBO, waiting for a member of the crew. The wonderful staff remember us from our last visit and still seem to like us. I am informed
