My OT trip yesterday was fun. Flew with a Captain that I had not flown with in months. Great to catch up. He gave me the outbound leg. During the taxi flow he told me to start the other engine. Most of the time we taxi out on the left engine and taxi in on [...]

Every morning I do my best to wake up with two beautiful women in my bedroom. The first is my wife. The second is Robin Meade. Of course when I am on a trip it’s only Robin Meade. Wednesday I was assigned reserve at home with a 2 hour call out. My shift started at [...]

I was doing my airport standby stint yesterday. All was quiet. Around 6:05PM I checked my schedule and saw an overnight….but my phone never rang. I checked my voicemail…nothing. Had scheduling not called me? After calling crew scheduling the agent apologized for not having called me for a flight that leaves in 35 minutes. Nice. [...]

I haven’t flown since September 6th…seems like longer than that. Each day I am on standby it looks like I will fly. Many times I am the only First Officer available….but each night I go home. Once again tonight I am thinking I might fly. I watch the outgoing flights to see if crews will [...]

I have said many times in this blog that rushing gets you no where fast. When at work I practice that rule. I need to start using that in my personal life as well. This morning my wife and I left the house at 5:15AM to catch a 6:30AM flight. Flying is like driving to [...]

Buddy of mine from ATP stopped by today. I am cleaning out my closets…(yes plural) of a lot of computer parts. I am tossing out computer cases, motherboards, cables, monitors…lots of stuff. I mentioned my clearing on Facebook. He needed network cabling. I was tossing out A LOT of network cabling. I gave him at [...]