I recently sat down to look through one of the Pilot’s Logbooks that I had filled in during my flying career. These books (similar to a journal) record various categories of flight time that contribute to a pilot’s “total flight…
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The Captain’s Corner I was honored to work with many passionate professionals over the course of my thirty-six-year career with the airlines. These included crew members, flight attendants, mechanics, passenger agents, and baggage handlers. However, I had contact with one…
There are special days that mark milestones in an airline pilot’s career. Of course, the pilot’s first solo flight is worthy of celebration. The first flight as an employee of the airline is also a noted achievement, as is his…
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…