It is a fact of flight that all weather—good or bad—affects flying; therefore, all flying involves weather. In my early years of learning to fly planes (before I started flying for the airlines), my weather-flying experience was “fair-weather flying”: clear…
The Captain’s Corner UPDATE: It’s hard to believe that Joe has written not only multiple posts for “The Captain’s Corner” over the last year and a half, but that he has also compiled them and has published a book by…
As a little boy in Idaho, my father eagerly anticipated each trip to the “Mechanafe” (meh-CAN-a-fay). This “mechanical cafe” in Boise, Idaho, not only offered a wide variety of food; but more importantly to a young, quickly growing boy, there…
The burdens from the previous week were pressing in on me. I felt alone, misunderstood, overwhelmed, and surrounded by the temporal values and philosophies of the world around me. I needed the fellowship, support, and encouragement that a church service…
At the risk of stereotyping the genders (which I actually may be doing a bit), when a group of men watch football, the women often like to find another television in the house on which to watch “chick flicks,” as…