Here's a poem I came across today ( Read more... )

I came out on this trip on Monday the 6th. It's roughly half over now. Normally, I could say it's had more ups and downs than the stock market, but the Dow set its biggest single day point gain ever while I've been on this trip, and it followed several record setting losses. I guess I don't have so much drama compared to that ( Read more... )

A lot happens before I ever jump in an airplane and go flying. I linked to some videos in a previous blog entry that a guy here at World made. The first one talks about sales, aircraft scheduling and so on. My involvement comes much later. But between sales and aircraft scheduling and me comes crew planning ( Read more... )

I finished my first post-upgrade training event today. In addition to the annual training required for all pilots, Captains get to do 6-month checks. My sim session was today. I learned an important thing. The sim is just like the airplane, it breaks, too. Fortunately, they got it fixed in time for us to complete the session. Back to flying ( Read more... )

Enough about politics. Time for some humor! This came from a friend of mine at work ( Read more... )

So early this morning the phone rang. I was up until 5ish (which would be 11 p.m. east coast time), so I was kinda irritated that the phone rang a little after 7. More importantly (and unfortunately), I wasn't awake enough to realize I shouldn't answer it. And I definitely shouldn't have ( Read more... )

When someone commits a crime that damages someone else's property, they are charged with that crime and (usually) forced to pay for the damages and often other costs. But what happens when government commits a crime? This week, it responded not by apologizing and paying for the damage it caused, but by suggesting it might fine the victim up to $ ( Read more... )

I just received an operational bulletin from work that was a pleasure to read. Even more, it was about something the government did. How rare is that ( Read more... )

Seems there are a lot of fleet rumors going around. So far, these all fall in the rumor department. We just had a bid increasing the MD-11 staffing which is probably related to rumors of getting more MD-11's. One possible source I've heard is Varig Log, which makes good sense as they have the 2 P&W powered sister ships to the two ex-Korean ( Read more... )

I was supposed to go home yesterday (the 3rd), but there was apparently a sick call at work and they made me an offer I couldn't refuse to take the trip. It was from Dover, DE to Leipzig. I wanted to make it home for fireworks (which it appears I will .. I'm almost to Manchester now). They agreed to have me work the trip to Leipzig, which was ( Read more... )