So I had afternoon airport standby yesterday. At 5:30PM I was called for a 6:45PM flight. I was slightly happy as it was to a city I haven’t been to yet. The flight went fine. Captains leg. Nothing too exciting. Lots of weather to go above and around. I never get tired of sunsets…taken at [...]

So far (knocking on wood), I have never landed this hard. The true forces involved can be seen in the wing flex after landing. Wow.

This would be a great thing overall although I do worry about the pilots at Lynx. One of my former students flies for them. http://www.blogsouthwest.com/blog/southwest-bids-frontier-airlines Thu, 07/30/2009 – 11:58 — Paula Berg Q&A with Ron Ricks, Executive Vice President Corporate Services and Corporate Secretary Today, Southwest Airlines confirmed that it is preparing a bid to acquire [...]

I’m glad to public eye is still focused on Regional Airlines. I was afraid after a month or two people would move on. CHANGE can’t come fast enough. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/07/regional_airlines.html FAA seeks rapid overhaul of rules that govern pilot training and scheduling for regional airlines Scott Shaw/The Plain DealerMichael Zaite, recently a co-pilot with CommutAir flying [...]

Monday I had my afternoon airport standby shift. Pilots can only work 6 days in a row max. My line for next month starts one the 31st of July. Due to a 7 day conflict I have airport standby Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday (paid day off), then airport standby Thursday thru Sunday. Yesterday there [...]

Weather really is an amazing phenomanon. When the dark clouds roll in and rain begins to fall….flights get delayed. When flights get delayed even for just 30 minutes a domino effect begins. From a passenger prespective, it there is a storm at 8AM that is over by 11AM and they have a flight at 3PM, [...]