Day one in the sim was last night. Went well overall. Arrived at the simulator site (my airline doesn’t own the sim, we use an outside company) at 4:15 PM for a 4:30PM show. I passed another pilot and inquired if he was my Captain. Sure enough he was. He has been on the plane [...]

I had a great two days teaching the ATP RJ Course. I forgot how much I truly love teaching. My college plans were to originally become a High School teacher. My last semester I was student teaching and realized I never wanted to teach High School. When I was a CFI I loved teaching. Seeing [...]

Check rides. An hour or two (or more!) of your life that shows just a sample of your knowledge and abilities. Kind of unfair. We all have bad days. If a bad day conicidies with a check ride it could haunt you for the rest of your career. I’m no Superman. Just an average guy, [...]

Slooooow times for me. Flew 2 hours last week. Sat airport reserve 4 days….32 hours. I’ve discussed in the past that I did all my flight training at AllATPs. I did the Self Paced Program for both the Private and the Airline Career Pilot Program. I started with 0 hours on May 5, 2006 and [...]

I showed up for Jury Duty yesterday…waited around for 3 hours…got picked for a Jury that was called in at 9 AM today. I was initially worried about losing money. Once I got home I checked my contract….I get full pay for each day. After a quick call to crew scheduling I was cleared for [...]

I’ve always been more than a little skeptical of Gulfstream International. For those that don’t know they are a flight school and an airline. Those wishing to be pilots can pay Gulfstream an ungodly amount of money for training and then be “hired” as a First Officer getting paid an extremely substandard rate to fly [...]