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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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,...
