Yesterday was the first day of class, so I didn’t expect to learn much. Fortunately, for once, we didn’t have do undergo drug testing and fill out endless reams of paperwork like I had to on my last 3 first days. Instead we did a brief review of material in the General Operations Manual. This…
Here’s a totally reasonable, factually correct article discussing Colgan 3407. It’s rare that the news media fails to make glaring errors in reports about airplane crashes. I’d like to commend the New York Times on doing a decent job, here.
The plan was to get up at 5am, leave home at 6am in oder to get to Phoenix in time for a 7:30pm flight to Seattle. That didn’t happen. It snowed last night. This made me somewhat apprehensive about setting off pre-dawn on summer tires. We’ve only got one set of snow tires (because we…
In a few minutes, I’m going to start my last Jet trip. I fly to Fort Wayne for tonight, back to ORD tomorrow and then a round trip to a city whose 3-letter code I do not recognize. Presumably I’ll have to figure it out before I get there. Dash 8 training starts Monday. Sydney…
I just flew a totally acceptable tight visual approach into Harrisburg, PA. Because I flew a tight pattern, I went right over the cooling towers on Three Mile Island. There was quite the condensation cloud, and a substantial spot of turbulence in the thermals. It’s really hard to fly a visual pattern to the left…