My last 4 day was crappy. I was off my game…I made the single worst approach in my career….went around…..and plunked it onto the runway. The plunking was needed as the runway was 5200 feet long…and it had just finished raining. There were thunderstorms in the area which was part of the reason for the [...]

Right now I am enjoying a frosty adult beverage in my favorite Samuel Adams Pilsner glass I got after visiting the Boston brewery. Day four of my last trip was rough. I did sleep well though…actually I slept freaking great. The overnight hotel was on the final approach path to the main runway. Planes on [...]

On day 3 of a 4 day. The trip is a 1-2-4-5 trip. Day one was easy. I had a 7PM departure. One leg to the overnight….a reduced rest 8 1/2 hour overnight. Eh. I’d been off for 9 days…same with my co-pilot. He used to be an instructor in the training center and just [...]

I was first diagnosed with SJS when I was just 10 years old. I was in wood shop when I saw a few kids huddled around a “state of the art” 80386 computer running Microsoft Flight Simulator. I was hooked…on computers…and soon flying jets. Years went by and I played better and better versions of [...]

I finished my day trip Friday. I’m off until NEXT week on Sunday. Just part of my line. Keeping my daughter out of daycare all this week. It’s going to be the geek and daughter show…..thus it will be quiet here this week. Might write a general post about how QOL is way more important [...]

My Bose A-20s are in the back of a UPS airplane right now headed over to Massachusetts. Over the last week they developed a nasty habit of cutting out all sound for a few seconds if I moved my head ….sometimes. A few seconds of no communication is very bad especially in the terminal environment. [...]