by Jeff Goin | Jun 16, 2019 | Log: Airline, Log: Enterprise
Before starting a 3-day work trip, I couldn’t resist the misty calm that called from outside. It would be a fine time to experience sunrise over Polk County and a welcome refresh. Not only because I hadn’t flown in a while, but because ground fog conspired...
by Jeff Goin | Jun 11, 2019 | 07: Weather Basics, 24: Weather in Depth, Log: Airline
This afternoon, flying into Nashville, TN, I noticed these clouds. A quick look at the local weather showed strong, gusty winds out of the northwest–perpendincular to this band of clouds. Ahaa, this is a relatively mellow, dry cold front; there’s no...
by Jeff Goin | Oct 10, 2018 | Log: Airline
The pockmarked path to an airliner’s left seat I get this question a lot: “I’m thinking about an airline career, I’m x years old, do you think its worth it?” The single most important question is “Do you really love flying?”...
by Jeff Goin | May 7, 2008 | Log: Airline
Doing a book with hundreds of illustrations, many involving Photoshop, meant that I’d recently gotten better at photoshop. I had to spend some of that on fun. In May 2008, After seeing the IL paint scheme on one of our “red bellied warbirds” I had to...
by Jeff Goin | Feb 20, 2007 | Log: Airline
Bi-annual visit to the $16 Million Flight Simulator. Microsoft, eat your heart out! It’s never routine. Even the inevitable emergencies aren’t routine. Different instructor, different sim partner, slightly different sim behavior and older brain cells,...
