My last three day was pretty uneventful. I did manage a 10 minute turn. It helped that there were only 6 passengers in and 10 passengers out. I didn’t feel rushed at all. In that 10 minutes I had time to run the parking checklist, passengers left the plane, I did my post flight, hit [...]

Great 3 day trip. Great crew and overnights. Lots of deicing and weather. Heading out tonight to teach the ATP RJ Course tomorrow. Busy. More later. For now….a few photos from my trip. The 1st photo is a shot during deicing at the gate. The Glycol running down the windows…makes for a streaky mess. The [...]

Leaving on a 3 day tomorrow. Packing a bit extra for the trip. I had a REALLY good week long vacation in Hawaii. How good? I gained 10 pounds. Booo. So this week I hit up FatSecret.com and started using the app and software to track my eating again. I’ve used the site/app for a [...]

Four day trip done. My first 4 day trip in a while. I don’t care for them….but I do them when needed to get a few extra hours of pay. My first turn was interesting. While on a localizer approach I was descending to MDA when I saw the runway about 400 above minimums. The [...]

There’s a simple list of rules in my house; Rule #1 Always Come Home Rule #2 See rule #1 Picked up a day trip on overtime yesterday. Simple 4 hour 40 minute turn. I debated picking it up….then I saw the weatherman said the weather would be horrible ALL DAY…that sealed the deal. I was [...]

So when I put in my preferences for February I was on the island of Maui…on vacation. I didn’t really think about much beyond maximum days off and domestic only flying. I got what I wanted…18 days off, domestic only…but almost all flying is in the cold states. Ick. So over the last few days [...]