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	<title>Blogging Pilots &#187; airline</title>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: A Square Meal</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/square-meal.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/square-meal.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	The work we did in two flights on our first full day here is judged complete and correct and we're all getting out of here today: me in our airplane and the customers on the airlines. Some of them are ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: She Does Not Get Eaten By Wolves At this Time</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/she-does-not-get-eaten-by-wolves-at.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/she-does-not-get-eaten-by-wolves-at.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	This much maligned small town in the boondocks of Alaska doesn't seem to be nearly as horrendous as everyone made it out to be. Yes, there are no roads that goes anywhere other than the airport, the d ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Hint: It's Not a Paperclip</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/hint-its-not-paperclip.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/hint-its-not-paperclip.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I'm afraid this is not nearly as interesting as the engine test stand vehicle, but it's a thing I found that was initially a mystery for me. It was in my pocket at the end of the day, so I took a pict ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Vacation Plans</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/vacation-plans.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/vacation-plans.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	When I get back from Alaska, I'm going to be on vacation at a lake in BC. No, I'm not telling you which one, except that the beach is hot and the water is pretty and cool and has mountains around it a ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: I Can See Russia</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-can-see-russia.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-can-see-russia.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Local accommodations consist of a hunting lodge on the edge of the same little lake we flew over on final. The ground floor is a large kitchen/common room area with better-than-expected wireless inter ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: On The Frontier</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-frontier.html</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-frontier.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	We get a call from the customers, still on the 

edge of nowhere, waiting for both workable weather 

and an airplane. Today the weather is starting to 

clear, and they expect it will be good enough ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Wings Stayed On!: The newest Airbus?</title>
		<link>http://aluwings.blogspot.com/2010/09/newest-airbus.html</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:09:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aluwings.blogspot.com/2010/09/newest-airbus.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lJZsJ7fdRAk/TH--I_E3ejI/AAAAAAAAAfc/IJwKzQMIf7c/s1600/all-electric-aerobatic-plane_Tof93_3868.jpg"></a>After taking to the skies with an algae powered plane, EADS ha ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Uncontained Failure</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/uncontained-failure.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/uncontained-failure.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	A Qantas Airlines Boeing 747 jet climbing out of San Francisco on Monday experienced an <a href="http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/31/346831/pictures-qantas-747-uncontained-engine-failure.h ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Just Like the Fourth of July</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/just-like-fourth-of-july.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/just-like-fourth-of-july.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	It's Friday and we discover that in this hangar 

they celebrate Friday with a barbecue lunch. The 

entire extended family is present, and it's a 

little confusing because despite the flat maps we ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Aviation Grade Easy-Off</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/aviation-grade-easy-off.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/aviation-grade-easy-off.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Next day I spend more time scrubbing the 

airplane belly, and crouching under the wing getting oil off the flaps. It's not so much that cleaning is unpleasant, as working above your head in a cramped ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Semiskilled Labour</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/semiskilled-labour.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/semiskilled-labour.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I had a kind of ear block this morning. Not a really serious one that would prevent me from climbing or descending in the airplane, just water in my ear in such a way that sounds all came through glub ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: What Is Odd About This Panel?</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-odd-about-this-panel.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-odd-about-this-panel.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	You know I love to look at instrument panels, and that I go crazy over unusual or clever instruments. Here's a panel I saw recently. There's nothing particularly unusual about it, but the sum total is ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Bad Risk</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/bad-risk.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/bad-risk.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	My coworkers is married and getting a mortgage, so wants insurance. He asked on company e-mail if anyone knew of a company that would sell him life insurance for a reasonable price. I don't have any l ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Taxi Through Construction</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/taxi-through-construction.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/taxi-through-construction.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	This morning the weather is worse, and is 

forecast to be that way for several days. The 

decision is made--and I say it that way because I'm 

not sure who proposed it, approved it or finalized 

i ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Things Mothers Cringe At</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/things-mothers-cringe-at.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/things-mothers-cringe-at.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I went to Yahoo News following <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100825/ap_on_re_as/as_china_plane_crash">this story</a> of a regional airliner crash in China. I don't have any comment on the stor ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Turn, Turn, Turn</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/turn-turn-turn.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/turn-turn-turn.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	It's go day. The airplane is jammed full of gear so our AME and clients are taking the airlines. It's amazing where airlines go in the US. And it's not a Twin Otter, either. They drop us off at the FB ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Getting Ready</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/getting-ready.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/getting-ready.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Before he goes to the wilds of remote Alaska, the AME wants to buy some consumables that weren't worth hauling on the airlines, but that we can carry on board the plane for his use at destination. We ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Direct Hit, Mr. Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/direct-hit-mr-prime-minister.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/direct-hit-mr-prime-minister.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Recent <a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/co-pilot-putin-helps-put-out-wildfires/412123.html">news coverage of Russian Prime Minister Putin</a> on board an aerial firefighting mission ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Precious Tiedowns</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/precious-tiedowns.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/precious-tiedowns.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	After spending all day overflying it, we're going back to the airport today, this time to see the local air museum. We follow the signs off the main road to the terminal, then somehow miss the museum ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Anchorage Tourists</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/anchorage-tourists.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/anchorage-tourists.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	The next day I check the METAR to determine the 

temperature, and then dress accordingly to go for a 

run. Anchorage in June (yeah that's how far behind 

I am in blogging!) is really comfortable. T ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Delayed Reporting Time</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/delayed-reporting-time.html</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/delayed-reporting-time.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	So I slept, or at least held my eyes closed and 

thought about how I'd better be sleeping, or I was 

going to be really tired tomorrow, from around six 

p.m. to 2 a.m., woke up, turned on the compu ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: You Want To Do What?</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/you-want-to-do-what.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/you-want-to-do-what.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	The source of charts that was recommended close to the hotel appears to be primarily a doctor's office that does pilot medicals. They used to sells charts, hence the "Pilot Shop" neon sign visible fro ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Safety is What You Make It</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/safety-is-what-you-make-it.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/safety-is-what-you-make-it.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	When you fly, even if you're a jaded, experienced traveller, and know how to hide your notebook computer under your jacket when the flight attendant looks at you, please put it away. Stow your carry o ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Sweet, We're In Alaska!</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/sweet-were-in-alaska.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/sweet-were-in-alaska.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	In Whitehorse we're cleared to taxi and then take-off, with no restrictions on turns or altitude, so we're quickly on course for the United States. (I keep saying that, because it's so weird). The wea ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: On the Marge</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-marge.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-marge.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	The next day we load the airplane with our personal gear, cursing as usual the paucity of tiedown points in this thing. Once everything is packed and secured, I call the customs broker to tell him we ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Visual Lookout</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/visual-lookout.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/visual-lookout.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Depending on how closely you follow NASCAR 

and/or the EAA Airventure (a.k.a "Oshkosh") you may 

know that NASCAR owner Jack Roush <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=pC7CTywzw_8">crashed his ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Testing Engines and Patience</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/testing-engines-and-patience.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/testing-engines-and-patience.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	The head of maintenance drives all night then calls me midmorning. I get along with him well and we get into these silly preaching to the converted routines where we follow our shared philosophy to th ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Having Issues. May Be A Bit.</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/having-issues-may-be-bit.html</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/having-issues-may-be-bit.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	This is so my new motto. Maybe I'll do one of these every day until I run out of famous images of historical figures having issues.

<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bGDox8K2SWI/TE9-_C2vUtI/AAAAAAAA ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: I Thank You All</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-thank-you-all.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-thank-you-all.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	You wonderful, wonderful people! I always knew I was blessed with some of the best readers on the internet, so I shouldn't be surprised that you can put your money where your fingers are. I posted <a ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Does Alaska Really Exist?</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/does-alaska-really-exist.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/does-alaska-really-exist.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I think maybe there was giant earthquake in Alaska overnight. Before I went to bed I ran my nav program to determine that in good VFR weather with calm winds Anchorage is five hours and fifty minutes ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Blogging at FL250: The Long Road Home, Part 2 Photos</title>
		<link>http://fl250.blogspot.com/2010/08/long-road-home-part-2-photos.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://fl250.blogspot.com/2010/08/long-road-home-part-2-photos.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cyZn4SuRVJo/TGBFoAs9N9I/AAAAAAAABbg/CDTBFZ2vEpY/s1600/DSCF0627.jpg"></a><br />Dawn at Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, ON.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Next Destination: Cambodia</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/next-destination-cambodia.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/next-destination-cambodia.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<i>No, I didn't get lost on the way to Alaska. This blog entry is out of sequence, for reasons that will become evident when you read it. I will return to the Alaska adventure with the next post.</i> ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Blogging at FL250: The Long Road Home, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://fl250.blogspot.com/2010/08/long-road-home-part-2.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://fl250.blogspot.com/2010/08/long-road-home-part-2.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Nonrevving back to Buffalo two weeks later proved much easier than anticipated, and we touched down shortly after 11PM on Friday, May 29. The final leg of my adventure was planned to go up Canada's Br ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Scheduling versus Safety</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/scheduling-versus-safety.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/scheduling-versus-safety.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	The airplane is still away. The pilot who is with it tells me that they could have completed the minimum scheduled maintenance work and had it back today, but the weather here isn't appropriate for ou ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Local Positioning Signal</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/local-positioning-signal.html</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/local-positioning-signal.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I was chatting online with some non-pilots who knew I was a pilot and one, whom I have dubbed Rhubarb, asked me, "Why doesn't each airport have a local positioning signal?" They kind of do, so I asked ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Four Million Dollar Decision</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/four-million-dollar-decision.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/four-million-dollar-decision.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	No, not my decision. Although, considering the cost of my airplane, the equipment and other airplanes around me, I technically make four million dollar decisions every time I taxi to parking. But this ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Loss of Separation</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/loss-of-separation.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/loss-of-separation.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	If you're me, when you see news like <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/08/01/bc-wildfires.html">this Convair 580 crash</a> in British Columbia, you are sad for the pilots a ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Pork Bellies</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/pork-bellies.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/pork-bellies.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<i>This posting is utterly off the regular topic of this blog. It was inspired by the fact that I had bacon from a free range pig for breakfast, and it was extremely delicious.</i>

Pork bellies are a ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Resolution Update</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/resolution-update.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/resolution-update.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I made some <a href="http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html">ridiculously optimistic new year's resolutions</a> this year and with five months left in the year, not only have I ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Hearing Impaired Airline Pilot</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/hearing-impaired-airline-pilot.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/hearing-impaired-airline-pilot.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	As a commercial pilot I undergo regular medical examinations to ensure that I am fit to fly. I had an audiogram (hearing test) when I was first licensed, but now I'm just tested without really noticin ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Fly In, Fall Off</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/fly-in-fall-off.html</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/fly-in-fall-off.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	There was a notice in the terminal window, next to the airside gate, about a fly-in breakfast. Today. The mission specialist (the one who helped with my jelly bean game) and I decide to attend, althou ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Another Funny CVR Story</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-funny-cvr-story.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-funny-cvr-story.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Grant linked to this in a comment yesterday. It is spot on, taking the Onion`s usual formula of perfectly copying the format of a familiar news story while twisting it silly.

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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Those Are Jelly Beans In Your Tanks</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/those-are-jelly-beans-in-your-tanks.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/those-are-jelly-beans-in-your-tanks.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I see from the journey log that the airplane got back late last night. It would have been outside my duty day. There's still enough time left on the airframe for my flight. I do all my preflight thing ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Attitude Does Not Equal Authority</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/attitude-does-not-equal-authority.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/attitude-does-not-equal-authority.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	The next day there is no delay. I wake, eat breakfast and go. Today I add two litres to the left engine and one to the right. You can tell we're getting close to maintenance when the oil consumption i ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: I Almost Win A Car</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-almost-win-car.html</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-almost-win-car.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	I almost won a car today. Really. Here's how you almost win a car. You get up in the morning, do your daily exercises, and check the weather. Then you go and discuss the day's flying with the client a ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: His Casket is Actually Orange</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/his-casket-is-actually-orange.html</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/his-casket-is-actually-orange.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	According to <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100721/wl_asia_afp/australiaaviationblackboxwarren">Yahoo News</a>, David Warren, the inventor of the aircraft "black box", died last week. He was a ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Dawson Something</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/dawson-something.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/dawson-something.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	After picking up a part in Regina, and stuffing it in the nose locker so it will be available wherever we are for the next maintenance, I'm going to Dawson Creek. That's <b>Dawson Creek</b> in Norther ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Baffin Island Hatchlings</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/baffin-island-hatchlings.html</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/baffin-island-hatchlings.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	This video is perfectly named, because the behaviour of the parachutists in their wing suits is exactly like downy chicks trying to copy their parents flight before they have developed the feathers, m ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: Some of My Best Friends Fly Helicopters</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-of-my-best-friends-fly-helicopters.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-of-my-best-friends-fly-helicopters.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	But I laughed so hard at <a href="http://graphjam.com/2010/06/27/funny-graphs-what-helicopters-do-in-action-movies/">this</a>. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cockpit Conversation: More Evidence Pilots Can't Count to Three</title>
		<link>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-evidence-pilots-cant-count-to.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<guid>http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-evidence-pilots-cant-count-to.html</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	Exactly eight hours after I put my head down on the pillow, the alarm tells me to wake up and go 

back to work. I get out of bed, switch on the computer, and put on my clothes while it reloads window ]]></content:encoded>
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