I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. Every now and then airlines change the gate for departing…and arriving flights. This isn’t done for fun. It causes a lot of headaches. Let’s just look at two gates call them gate [...] Continue Reading…

This will be short. More later. On day 2 of a 3 day. Great 3 day trip. Great crew. Started early with a 5AM van. First flight was nice. A whole 3 passengers on board. I’m sure the profit was [...] Continue Reading…

Felt better on Friday afternoon so I figured I could fly my 2 day trip on Saturday. Saturday morning I was good to go. This was originally a 4 day. Due to scheduling changes by my mainline partner every flight [...] Continue Reading…

Easy day trip. Flew with a Captain that was new to me. It was 5 hours of talking about planes, cars and kids….oh we each flew a leg as well. Nothing exciting…which is how flights should be. After getting home though [...] Continue Reading…

Today was supposed to be an easy trip. One turn. Easy. It’s VFR. Easy. Bleh. I had an 11:15 report time. My daughter wasn’t feeling the best so we kept her out of daycare. My wife went to work early [...] Continue Reading…

Living in base and being a line holder gives me the ability to (almost) write my own pay check. My line for December was initially valued at 83 hours. Of that 83 hours 22 hours involved a 4 day trip [...] Continue Reading…