The Captain’s Corner Last week, Brenda and I saw this spectacular display of contrails (short for “condensation trails”). Covering the winter-morning sky were several crisscrossing white vapor trails that extended great distances. These “fingers in the sky” are formed when…
The Captain’s Corner Throughout my career with the airlines, I had many radio communications with the men and women of the air traffic control service. Each day these passionate professionals control thousands of flights with one goal: keeping two airplanes…
The Captain’s Corner The last five years during my career as an airline pilot, I flew back and forth from Philadelphia to seven cities in Europe. International flying across the north Atlantic brought a different set of procedures and practices…
The Captain’s Corner Public address announcements (“PA”s) from the cockpit to the passenger cabin are both frequent and required in airline flying. As Brenda often says, “Informed people are happy people.” This is especially true when flights are delayed, diverted,…
The Captain’s Corner In my previous post from “The Captain’s Corner,” I discussed the similarities between the Flight Operations Manual (FOM) and the Bible, God’s Word to us. As flight crews we were governed by FOM procedures in order to…