Quick weekend getaway with my family. My 18 month old daughter has now been on 42 if not 44 flights. We’ve gotten lazy about updating her logbook. I finished my trip last week on Thursday night. Flew 8 hours. Tired. Arrived home at 8:15PM. Left Friday morning to drive the family back to the airport [...]

Came across this blog post about a pilot who flew 737s and 757s but was new to the A321. http://flightlevel390.blogspot.com/2012/02/ten-west-of-cofax.html?spref=fb

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. Every now and then airlines change the gate for departing…and arriving flights. This isn’t done for fun. It causes a lot of headaches. Let’s just look at two gates call them gate 10 and gate 15 Flight 290 is scheduled to leave at 8AM from gate [...]

So I have a few pilot headsets. I have a Telex ANR 500, Bose Qc15/UflyMike and a Telex 750. The one that got the most use is the Telex ANR 500. TSO’d, lightweight, great ANR and clear communications. The Bose QC15/UflyMike combo is great.super ANR, crystal clear communications and light weight. My issue was with [...]

Thanks to Dan (a reader of this blog) to tipping me off to another blog by a pilot who changed careers late in life. The blogger also works for a regional and appears to be just starting out. Great read and a lot more photos. He is a lot more open than me as he [...]

Friday I got my new SIC rating certificate. Saturday I finished LOFT. LOFT is Line Oriented Flight Training. Basically it takes you from the training environment and puts you in the line environment. It’s supposed to be a normal flight in real time. This morning we flew from ATL to DCA. Short flight. The Captain [...]