Just found out today I will be the proud father of a baby girl in August. Now to think of a name. My wife and I are very far apart on names. I jokingly stated I’m going to pick the name off one used on the Maury show. She didn’t laugh. Ha!

First. Pilots do not need to be perfect, or even really good , in math. I was so horrible in math, that in college I took a zero credit remedial algebra class. I then took “real” college algebra. Never missed a class. Did all the homework. Still failed. The professor took me aside toward the [...]

For a while now I have been avoiding my own blog. I hated the design. I finally took the steps today to redo it. I use WordPress…a popular blogging/website engine. WordPress is somewhat flexible. I have thought about moving to SquareSpace.com for a while. Maybe next redo. There are a ton of badly designed blogs [...]

Spent a nice weekend away with my wife to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary. Most people would just go out for a a nice dinner. We aren’t most people. We spent the week looking over the flight loads and keeping mind of which cities were “doable”. We both have Starwood Preferred Guest American Express [...]

For the first time in at least 6 months…maybe longer….I flew to a new airport. Sunday was my birthday….sat airport reserve that afternoon. Around 6PM I was called for 7:30PM departure for a long 17 hour overnight. The inbound plane was already running 30 minutes late. The original crew was running 2 hours late. My [...]

A friend of mine from ATP hit me up for a little advice recently. Right now he has a nice gig as a Dispatcher instructor at a Flight Simulation company. He works 8-5 Monday thru Friday and has a very nice paycheck. A few weeks ago he interviewed at an airline and was offered a [...]