The last day of the trip was just three legs. At 5AM the crew climbed into the hotel van and left for the airport. The first flight of the day has all of us preforming various checks associated with the first flight of the day. One of these checks failed. The flight attendants tested the [...]

Hijacking report at Miami International Airport is false alarm BY JENNIFER LEBOVICH jlebovich@MiamiHerald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1043003.html The report of an American Airlines flight hijacked at Miami International Airport Monday afternoon turned out to be a false alarm, authorities said. A pilot of American Airlines Flight 535 from San Juan, Puerto Rico had inadvertently switched the plane’s transponder [...]

Flight training can cost a lot of money. Be very careful choosing a flight school. Never pay all the money up front! Jet University recently closed it’s doors and took several students money with them. The school I went to (ATP) takes the tution in chunks. Each part is due at a set time. This [...]

On my last overnight. Ready to be done. This morning started early. I woke up at 4AM. I never sleep well on reduced rest overnights. I went down to eat breakfast at 4:50AM. At 5:00AM I was in the back of the hotel van on the way to the airport. After clearing security I made [...]

Up at 4:30AM. Three turns and then I fly my wife to lunch at my overnight. I fixed the comment glitch associated with the new domain name. It’s too damn early….slept maybe 6 hours…at least it’s a short day. Done at 12:35 today. And I keep the same plane for all 4 turns!

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 [...]