Two significant fatal aviation accidents occurred today. These add to a string of accidents over the past few months. There were two with no fatalities: Continental off the runway in Denver (many injuries), and USAirways in the Hudson River. Then there was the Colgan Air (Continental Connection) accident in Buffalo killing all aboard and two ( Read more... )

I did my annual recurrent training this week. It entailed two days of ground school in Atlanta followed by two days of simulator training in Memphis. The second simulator day is actually a checkride, so poor performance has significant adverse consequences ( Read more... )

I departed Manchester this morning for a week of recurrent training. When I went to go through security, I noticed the longer that usual line. There are two checkpoints in Manchester, one of which is really two checkpoints in close proximity to each other. Half of that checkpoint was closed as was the other checkpoint, leaving just 1/3 of the ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a frustrating day. I was scheduled for a 9:00 a.m. departure from Jerez (near Rota) to Madrid, to Frankfurt to Leipzig. That's already too many connections for such a short distance. But, of course, nothing goes as planned with me at work ( Read more... )

At long last, I have a chance to write about my trip to Cappadocia. It took me quite a while to get the pictures organized and posted, but I finally figured it out. You can see them all hereBefore I begin, I should introduce you to the cast. Sean and Tom were my First Officer and Flight Engineer. Hakan is our ops rep in Adana (he actually works ( Read more... )

It's official. I'm going 0 for 6 this month for on-time performance. My last two legs are already delayed and it's still a day and a half before departure. Great stuff. For those keeping track, that's 5 legs on time as originally scheduled in 7 months of bidlines. By the number of flights, it's 11%. Pretty sad...

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Breaking up is hard to do. We've had an epic eight days together. First, we were acquaintances, assembled half way around the world by some form of fate. Then, we did everything together - ate, drank, slept (but not very much), talked, walked, flew, rode in taxis and buses, made new friends, took (lots of) pictures, bought pottery, roamed caves ( Read more... )

I just experienced quite possibly the most frustrating thing that has ever happened to me with linux. In fact, this may well be the first time I've seriously complained about it ( Read more... )

This trip hasn't been as long as some of the ones I've been on lately. It has kept up the trend of new destinations, though. I had commercialled through Paris before but never stayed there. A couple days ago I stayed, but only by the airport long enough to sleep. Now, after I land, I'll have a whole day there downtown ( Read more... )

Though I won't get to post this until I return home, I'm writing this on day 21 of my 22-day trip this month. I figured it might be better to just write all the 'drama' in one long post at the end of the trip. This, of course, is that post ( Read more... )