Actually, spelling and grammar count for most of your marks. Pilots operate mostly on paper, not jet fuel. No professional company will hire you if you are feckless with your paperwork and you are toast if you use the shorthand you might use in a text message. It's true that a lighter touch might ha...

Not exactly overwhelmed...

Glorious? Hmmm, probably not glorious but certainly busy. The problem is that the resumes take so long to do and there is only so much time in the year and the resumes crowd out the other fun stuff I want to do. There is a point of resistance where it becomes too much for the average pilot to see th...

Spring is around the corner, maybe you should jump in with both feet and get a charter job...I don't know what your quals are but instructing is a very meagre living. Life is what happens to you while you are making plans...

Actually, few employers care where you did your ab ignition stuff, the "education" section is for formal education. You should include the non-finished college and tell them about your licenses etc in the "Licenses" section and on the cover.

Time marches on...

That's the one. Good atmosphere in there, sad that lots of the patrons died so young.

FAA gives you a credit card which is yours forever. You just have to keep it current and for that they have computers. I always thought the booklet was a total joke, a make-work for TC drones. I used to like to stick in some of my little government stickies upside down... I remember when I gave my o...

Duxford, and the groovy American bomber pilot bar in Cambridge, where crews wrote their names on the ceiling with their Zippo lighters before they flew.

My father was 19 in the Battle of Britain. Compare that with what you were doing at 19.

WWIII!? Was I asleep? Where am I? What?

CZGRO. Three banks, I believe? R2800 has 3 rows of 9? Boy I'm getting old.

Call Alliance Francaise. Most towns have one and the classes are free.

That figures, she was taking a selfie. Another victim of texting...

"You had one job..."

I worked for a guy who dead-stocked a Harvard 1 into a field (shows you how long ago that was), he saved the aircraft with no damage but he was court-marshalled because he did not follow procedures and bail out. You follow the sops and you do as you're told. All part of the training. I'm very glad t...

Yep. Perfect example.

"Fly low and slow and throttle back in the turns."

If you jump to the conclusion that these dead guys were "fooling around" or were "cowboys," how does that work with it being considered "normal" and safe such that you think it's the cause of these crashes?

Doesn't work for me.

Cowboy mentality... this is going to get me going...first of all, have you ever operated a Racer in the Antarctic? Anywhere? Do you have any idea at all about operations on an ice shelf in the dark? Neither do I, but my overwhelming response to your posts is to make rude reflections on your ancestry...

Just Curious was an extremely capable and highly experienced Twin Otter driver, Chief Pilot and family man. Whatever got him was not because he was not entirely professional and dedicated to his work there. Speculation of this sort is uncalled for and sullies his memory and his legacy. In fact, I th...

The only way you will make money with a floatplane is...you won't. Costs will eat your lunch. Plan on writing off the maintenance, repairs, insurance etc.etc. and hope to recover some of your equity in the airframe when you get tired of hauling fish or other things that will damage the interior. Als...