Log: Airline

Here are occasional observations and picture from my day job. Fortunately, the vast majority of my days go by without much ado. That’s the way we like it, whether flying a powered paraglider or a 737. Of course the 737 is dramatically more reliable but then you’d expect that from something that costs 40 million dollars and is maintained by an army of mechanics.

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Airline Pilot as a Career

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?”...

Blowing in the Wind & Photoshopping

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...

2007 Airline Training Center Visit

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,...