Check rides. An hour or two (or more!) of your life that shows just a sample of your knowledge and abilities. Kind of unfair. We all have bad days. If a bad day conicidies with a check ride it [...] Continue Reading…

Slooooow times for me. Flew 2 hours last week. Sat airport reserve 4 days….32 hours. I’ve discussed in the past that I did all my flight training at AllATPs. I did the Self Paced Program for both the Private and [...] Continue Reading…

I sometimes forget that my domicile is someone else’s overnight. A buddy I worked with at ATP had an overnight here last night. We arranged to go out for dinner. My wife and I picked him and his flight attendant [...] Continue Reading…

I’m supposed to be sitting in a cockpit flipping switches and preparing for a flight right now. Instead I am sitting in the bowels of the airport waiting for my plane. Picked up an overtime trip today. A 5 1/2 [...] Continue Reading…

There is a little hiring going on. A friend of mine who was at the soon to be no more Lynx Aviation (Frontier regional) got a gig fairly quickly after leaving Lynx. It helped a lot that she is [...] Continue Reading…

Bored. Sitting airport reserve….as I will all next month. Being the most junior it’s all that was left after everyone else bid. This has been the same story over the last 18+ months. Had a 2 day trip last week. [...] Continue Reading…