Last Sunday started out innocuously enough at 4:15am for a 6:00am departure from Casper, Wyoming for a leg back to Denver. It was my leg, and the weather over the rockies in the summer is best for flying in the early morning. It was a perfectly calm morning, though the clouds that would form the…
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There’s a short video of my captain flying an approach to runway 33 in Aspen, CO. Note that I just clicked started the camera recording and held it up to the window, but I wasn’t paying attention to the camera for obvious reasons. At one point you can hear, “Caution, Terrain, Terrain!” from the airplane,…
I just spent the night in the same hotel room for the third time. Most hotels have a few rooms they use just for crew members, so this isn’t terribly surprising. Since we check in and out at odd times (we’ll be leaving at 4pm today), it works better for them that way. And the…
One of the downsides (though maybe some will consider at an upside, so maybe I’ll just refer to it as a side) of flying the Dash is that we’ve only got a few destinations. I haven’t even really managed to visit half of them, but I’ve spent a lot of time in Casper, Wyoming lately….