Right now I am sitting in the operations area of an outstation. This “situation” started last night. I was off yesterday. I was looking at open trips last night and saw an “easy” turn. The flight left at 7:25AM and returned to base at 1:50PM. Not bad. As is I was assigned reserve at home [...]

Think this is the fastest I have ever gone across the ground. I had 628 knots sustained in level flight. Nice tailwind. Took forever to get back though.

With GPS navigation, airplanes can fly an exact route with very little margin of error. This results in plane flying through the same piece of sky….and the same air. More than a few times I’ve had my plane rocked by flying in trail or a heavy jet. Even with FAA required entrail spacing, wake turbulence [...]

I’m still very new to this game. I’ve been flying for almost 4 years and at my airline for a little over 2 years. Questions pop up in my head every now and then that I don’t have the answer too. One question concerned the Flight Attendant call button. Being so junior I deadhead often. [...]

So I am lucky enough to be married to a woman who has purchased not one….but two Bose noise reducing headphone sets for me. The first was a Bose QC2 more than 4 years ago. They worked fine. Right before we went to Tokyo she bought me a pair of the new Bose QC15′s. Then [...]