I start recurrent ground on Saturday. Had a 2 day trip Thursday and Friday. This will be a short post. My wife works in an office. All her co-workers are…well co-workers. She doesn’t understand why I am so adversarial with scheduling. I’m not rude, but I’m not friendly either. I am very matter of fact. All contact [...]

Studying up for my recurrent checkride and First Officer ATP….been studying for about a month. More later.

It was supposed to be a pretty easy 2 day trip worth 9 hours 20 minutes. Day one was 5 legs worth a total of 7 hours 55 minutes. Quite a bit of flying. The Captain was a guy I had flown with before. He’s nice, funny…but has two odd quirks. He doesn’t like flying [...]

It’s been almost a year since I changed aircraft. What happens to pilots at least once a year? Required training. For me though…this year….it’s a bit more involved. All pilots at US airlines must have an ATP by August 2013. My airline is doing this during the month pilots normally get annual training. My “base” [...]

Interesting….and eye opening post about how, just because you fly the approach plate to the inch, doesn’t mean you’re safe. It’s long so I will just post the link:   http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2012-08-01/fly-plate-and-you-wont-get-hurt

I just finished a 20 hour 4 day trip Friday night. I thought I was off until Tuesday as I start another very similar 4 day next week. Nope I go back Monday evening. My 4 day starts late Monday and finished at 6PM Thursday. I’m off Friday. I then come back for a 2 [...]