I bid for an easy trip and was awarded it. The trip was a deadhead to another base, one leg to the overnight, one leg back to the base and a deadhead home. Sounded easy enough when I bid it. Another perk was I had never flown to this outstation before and there is a [...]

My wife is very patient. She supported me while I quit my high paying job to start Flight Instructing. I haven’t paid a bill towards the house in over two years. I can never thank her enough. Right now she is sitting in a very comfy first class seat on a widebody headed to California. [...]

Another mistake by the media. First a pilot has died while enroute to Newark. Very sad indeed. The story below has a photo mistake….can you spot it? http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/continental.pilot.dies.2.1049850.html HORROR: Continental Captain Dies Mid-Flight Plane Departed From Brussels, Destined For Newark; Reserve Crew On Flight To Manage Emergency Landing NEWARK, N.J. (CBS) ― Click to enlarge [...]

GPS (Global Positioning System). Those three letters have changed the way we live our lives. Twenty years ago most planes got from point A to point B by flying along airways created by ground based radios (VORs or NDBs). Ten years ago most people in the United States got from point A to point B [...]

Performance reviews. Most jobs have them. Once or twice a year most people sit down with their supervisor to discuss their job performance. During the meeting the supervisor checks off boxes pertaining to certain task. The employee doesn’t have to “do” anything during such reviews….just answer questions. At the end of the review the employee [...]

Saturday morning I was feeling halfway decent. I had already planned on calling in sick upon reaching base. I felt ok to fly from the outstation, but could see myself getting worse. We boarded up 70 people and taxied out to runway 13. This was the Captains leg. Leveling off at FL310 I was feeling [...]