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Over the past few days I managed to get my airplane moving. Branden T is a student who took the initiative to contact me about coming along on Angel Flights.…

The focus of this blog is flying, of course, but the joy I take from flying is constantly flavored by what is going on in my personal life. I make…

Did an Angel Flight yesterday with 6 hours of flying and some weather challenges. I posted a picture on FB afterwards, and got lots of congrats and thank you notes.…

Did an Angel Flight yesterday with 6 hours of flying and some weather challenges. Great trip that I’ll be writing up later today. This discussion is about the somewhat technical…

Angel Flight is an organization that arranges flights for people who need them and cannot afford them (among other things). Think about a year-end donation. The woman I flew yesterday…

Thought I’d share my ‘Exit Interview‘ with you. This is as close to a retail experience as I’ve gotten – just fill out the form and send it in. No…

I experienced a form of normalized deviation while at Piedmont airlines. Their training department is aware of it, but not equipped to deal with it in terms of resources and…

Monday was my last of four golden days, which means I was off. Beverly was busy, so I loaded up my car with my uniforms and drove to the beach.…

Sometimes decisions are made in increments and realizations come into focus one piece at a time. That is the case here, when a confluence of events reminded me what is…

Flew down on the flight of shame Tuesday, Dec 2 to Charlotte. I had a 6 am session already scheduled before I withdrew, and it was unclear how they’d move…