One of my earlier jobs was learning all about “straight”, and “ground effect”. I got the job because the guy I replaced tore the tail off a C-185 going under a power line while crop spraying. One day, I was at that moment of “do I, or don’t I....” fly under the power line?? I was in a C-188, so, I p...

DC’s rock. Yup, for all you new age shirt ’n tie types with the gold bars, go with the jet set sets. But.. if you want a bomb proof indestructible headset, DC’s are the way to go. I’ve done the non noise canceling DC’s (pre noise cancelling) with a couple of P&W R2800’s ten feet away, the nc types w...

Once upon a time, there was a dude who had the last page in “Flying”, known as “Bax”. He represented every wizened old dude who used to hang around every grass strip that used to populate the countryside. He was found in every hangar, large and small, corporate, private, in big cities, small towns. ...

My TC doc explained it to me this way.... half life is around 3 days for the THC/CBD in your system, so TC's 28 day rule. Of course, if you're doing a couple of blunts before supper, it might be longer. Accordingly, if you just did a spliff for the very first time ( that'll pop yer cherry) it will n...

So what’s your point , millie??

Sorry to have to break it to y’all, things are not going to be back to normal anytime soon. When it does, all the big boy toys are going to be “flown” by some 40 year old guy/gal using MS Flight Sim in his or her mommy’s basement. (All “contract” workers, no benefits, nada, nimini, nyet,) My bad. I ...

Actually, they're not looking for pilots. For 125.000 THOUSAND Dollars! Yikes!! They are really looking for Flight Systems Managers. As soon as you're all trained up, you will sit there, and monitor. You will start as an Assistant Flight Systems Manager, 10 to 15 years later, you will be promoted to...

Jack had ripped me a new one, after I'd come home in the 180, after turning around over the ., ( that could be a challenge, given that "you couldn't see anything out front) He said I …"was nothin' but wind scairt!!" Other times, ripping down the beach toward Masset, all you could see was the surf, y...

Air Regulation Act 1.000a- No pilot, or pilots, or person or persons acting on the direction or suggestion or supervision of the pilot or pilots may try, or attempt to try or make, or make an attempt to try to comprehend or understand any or all, in whole or in part of the herein mentioned Air Regu...

Paul was a kind and generous soul. Yellowknife has lost a true son.
Crazy like a fox. A good man.
R.I.P. Paul.

M. Hogan

let's see... Typical design weights* Maximum Take-off Weight: 44,225 Kg 97,500 lbs Maximum Landing Weight: 38,329 Kg 84,500 lbs Maximum Zero Fuel Weight: 36,515 Kg 80,500 lbs Typical Operating Weight Empty: 24,800 Kg 54,675 lbs Payloads Maximum structural payload 11,715 Kg 25,825 lbs And now, some e...

First trip out of the circuit... a $85 on floats, up to the arctic coast, east to Hudson Bay, all across the barrens, back and forth all summer. sectionals with ..."topographical data incomplete" and a copy of "Finding the sun's true bearing" (still have it) living in a tent, and using a bucket... O...

Stick and Rudder.
by Wolfgang Langewiesche