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At another hotel for a short overnight, so this will be brief. Captain flew both legs. I will take 3 of the 4 tomorrow. We wanted to change it up to keep one guy landing at the outstation and the other at base. While in the base we had to do a plane swap. Thankfully [...]

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I am sure you noticed the name of the site has changed. The old URL will continue to work for a while, but go ahead and update your bookmarks.

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This is a short (6 minute) video discussing fatigue in the United States regional airline industry. One day regional pilots will have more than 8 hours to leave a cockpit, walk thru an airport, wait for a van, ride to the hotel, try to sleep, get back in the van, drive to the airport, walk [...]

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I met the Captain and crew at the gate. The Captain is a nice old guy….been here too long…been flying too long…just here for the paycheck. The previous crew advised us that the ACARS printer wasn’t working and that a mechanic was on the way. We use that printer to print out our clearance, ATIS [...]